18 h. ago April Fool’s Day 2025: The best pranks from Abbey Road removing iconic crossing to Scott Mills’ Radio 2 mishap

Abbey Road left Beatles fans aghast by announcing closure of the legendary zebra crossing

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21 h. ago 'Beautiful' Brit superyacht worker dies while snorkelling on his day off in Fiji

An inquest into the death of Christian Bogle, 26, heard that the Brit joined other members of the yacht's crew to go snorkelling at a beach where the conditions were perfect

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23 h. ago ‘The ultimate circular economy’: how coral holobionts conjure magnificence from nothing

These creatures evolved over millenia to create nature’s finest circular economy, but are now struggling to surviveThere’s no preparing for a first encounter with a thriving coral reef: your attention ricochets between dramas of colour, form and movement. A blaze of fire coral, darting clown fish, crimson sponge, electric blue ray a turtle! Your heart soars, your head spins. Nowhere else will you encounter such density and diversity of life.Corals are the architects of all this splendour. Their immobile forms suggest plants, but they’re animals – solar-powered ones. Each is a colony of thousands, sometimes millions, of tiny coral polyps, each resembling a slimmed-down sea anemone, just millimetres tall.Between 24 March and 2 April, we will be profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from more than 2,500 nominations. The voting for our 2025 invertebrate of the year will run from midday on Wednesday 2 April until midday on...

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31 h. ago Toddler, 2, dies suddenly in her sleep hours after being sent home from hospital

Parents Kris Thompson and Ibolya Adam, from Wigan, are questioning the care given to their 22-month-old daughter by doctors following her death from a condition linked to Group A streptococcus, an inquest heard

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34 h. ago Stacey Solomon issues 'let me stop you' warning to Joe Swash as they discuss 'ups and downs'

Stacey and Joe's new BBC series gives a real insight into their every day life at Pickle Cottage

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35 h. ago Mechanic, 18, took his own life after falling victim to financial scammers, inquest hears

Kieron Mullins Bunn, had been his usual 'funny, chatty self' just days before his body was tragically found in woodland.

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36 h. ago Toddler died in her sleep hours after being sent home from hospital

An inquest jury heard Hailey Thompson's parents have concerns over her care

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38 h. ago Footballer reveals heartbreaking final text to his brother before he died at the age of 30 after suffering injury in first Muay Thai fight

Joseph Itai Rinomhota died after being stopped in the third round of his first Muay Thai kickboxing bout on the Thai island of Koh Samui on Friday.

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39 h. ago British sailor snorkelling at Fiji coral reef on 'best day of his life' died after suffering a seizure when he was stung by sea urchins, inquest hears

Super yacht deckhand Christian Bogle (pictured), 26, of Newquay, Cornwall, was snorkelling with crewmates at a beach in the city of Nadi, Fiji, last June when he tragically lost his life.

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46 h. ago Social media is awash with ‘heteropessimism’. Do young women really think so poorly of men? | Rachel Connolly

The cliche of the loutish, emotionally inadequate boyfriend is everywhere. The truth is more complicatedHow is the ideal heterosexual girlfriend supposed to behave? This played on my mind after I watched Companion, a film about a loutish millennial man named Josh with a robot girlfriend named Iris. Iris was designed to be the perfect girlfriend, and so she regards Josh with total devotion and admiration, and prioritises their relationship above all else. She has a head full of fake memories, such as the one of the day they met, when they were both in the same supermarket and he clumsily upended a display of oranges, sending them rolling across the floor. This caught her attention. She has been programmed to regard this as the best day of her life.Like so many things you watch and read now, Companion is intended to reflect a familiar trope back at the viewer in an exaggerated but unchallenging fashion. It’s a pantomimed version of a wildly imbalanced heterosexual relationship, a port...

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63 h. ago Kate Middleton says ‘nature’ has been her family’s ‘sanctuary’ in Mother’s Day post

The Princess of Wales turned heads last year when she posted an edited photo of her family on Mother’s Day

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66 h. ago David Beckham shares unseen family photos and sweet tribute to Victoria for Mother’s Day

‘I'm so lucky to have so many incredible women around me,’ former England captain said

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68 h. ago David Beckham shares rare photos of Victoria as he joins celebs celebrating Mother's Day

David Beckham praised the 'incredible women' in his life for Mother's Day, sharing moving photos of Victoria, her mum Jackie, and his mum Sandra alongside throwback shots of his four children

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2 d. ago Ferris Bueller's Day Off icon's completely new life on a farm in quaint UK village

Mia Sara was just 18 when she became one of the most recognisable faces of 1980s cinema, thanks to her role as Sloane Peterson in John Hughes' Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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3 d. ago ‘A different philosophy of things’: how Solvej Balle got ahead of Groundhog Day’s time

Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International BookerIf you’ve heard about Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I, longlisted for this year’s International Booker prize, you may have experienced a sensation that is central to the Danish writer’s brand of philosophical speculative fiction: deja vu.In Balle’s five-book opus (of a planned septology), the first three of which won the prestigious Nordic Council literature prize in 2022, someone wakes up to find they are reliving the same day over and over. Their partner, family, neighbours: they all experience this day for the first time in their life. Only the protagonist has been there before. That person is a woman called Tara rather than a man called Phil, and the day is 18 November rather than 2 February, but the plot resemblance to Groundhog Day ...

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3 d. ago I'm 44 and will never have children with my partner: Mother's Day brings a range of emotions

Erica Crompton, 44, who lives in Staffordshire with her partner Paul and their cats has listed the ways being child-free has changed her life, after making a crucial decision about the future.

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3 d. ago Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – a father and his autistic son bond through music

An honest and intensely moving book about the struggle of parenthood and the power of connectionOne of my favourite books growing up was my dad’s copy of The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics. I spent hours flicking through images of an eyeless, trombone-mouthed golden man swallowing naked bodies, and a full-page, black-and-white comic strip by legendary psychedelic artist Rick Griffin. It didn’t matter that I hadn’t yet listened to most of the songs – the surreal visual riffs felt like dispatches from an undiscovered country. Later, the Beatles became my favourite band. I chain-listened to the albums, read endless books, watched the movies and recited Beatles’ lore to anyone within earshot. “Oh dear,” said my mum one morning, as I reeled off an account of how a 40-piece orchestra improvised the rising crescendo in A Day in the Life, “you’ve become a Beatles bore.”Maybe I’m Amazed opens with John Harris’s 15-year-old son, James, ecstatically absorbed in a...

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4 d. ago Woman dies on flight to Liverpool from Tenerife after suffering suspected cardiac arrest

Three fellow passengers fought to save her life

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4 d. ago Horrific details of Diego Maradona's 'deformed heart and agonising death' emerge in court

Diego Maradona died an agonising death after suffering a heart attack aged 60 in 2020, and the horrific details have been heard in court, with his medical carers on trial

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4 d. ago A quarter of Brits now say they are DISABLED as number soars by 40 per cent in a decade to almost 17 million amid row over benefit cuts

Some 16.8 million people say they have a mental or physical impairment that 'causes substantial difficulty' in their day-to-day life, according to government data.

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