47 h. ago Catholics honor All Saints’ Day with family gatherings and cemetery visits across Poland

Poles have gathered with families to visit graves on All Saints’ Day

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60 h. ago Motherwell 1 St Mirren 4 – late Hampden drama sees Buddies face Celtic or Rangers as Saints bid to end 12

It was All Saints’ Day ..and night. Before kick off, Buddies fans unfurled a banner urging Faith over Fear. Throughout a terrific first half for their heroes, Mikael Mandron and Dan Nlundulu terrified the life out of Motherwell. And, after surviving a late scare of their own, it’s St Mirren who’ll take their place in the...

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66 h. ago Halloween and a declining Christian tradition coexist on All Saints' Day in Spain

The sobriety of the Catholic tradition, by which on All Saints' Day graves are cleaned and flowers are brought to cemeteries to spend time with deceased loved ones, has given way in recent years to sweets, fake blood, and spider webs from one of the most iconic holidays in the United States

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6 d. ago The stunning autumn walk near Greater Manchester perfect for half term

Gather the family together and head out on this autumn walk which takes in beautiful seasonal foliage

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6 d. ago Undergarment upgrades bring many Mormon women comfort and joy

New sleeveless sacred undergarments for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are now available in the U.S., exciting many women in the faith

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3 w. ago The Antichrist has long haunted American politics. Now it’s rearing its head again | Matthew Avery Sutton

From Silicon Valley to Michigan, the biblical figure is in the headlines. The shift from pulpits to politics is familiar – and dangerousTwo scenes from the past two weeks capture something unsettling – and familiar –about American public life. In San Francisco, a tech billionaire delivered a sold‑out, off‑the‑record lecture series on the antichrist. In Michigan, a man rammed his pickup truck into a Latter‑day Saints meetinghouse during Sunday worship, opened fire and set the building ablaze, apparently believing that Mormons are the antichrist.The antichrist is clearly back. But perhaps he has never really left.Matthew Avery Sutton is a Guggenheim Fellow and author of the forthcoming Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity (Basic Books), in addition to five prior books on Christianity. He is the Claudius O and Mary Johnson distinguished professor and chair of the department of history at Washington State University. The views expressed here are h...

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3 w. ago Ricky Hatton's family's heartbreaking eulogies in full from emotional funeral service

Ricky Hatton was laid to rest today as family and friends gathered for an emotional funeral in Manchester. Here, we recount the eulogies read out by Hatton's mum, son and two daughters...

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3 w. ago Ricky Hatton funeral: Everything we know as fans bid farewell to boxer

Tributes pour in as fans, family, and friends gather in Manchester to bid farewell to Ricky Hatton

Sport

3 w. ago Two arrested and two suspects wanted after home of NFL Saints player Cam Jordan burglarized on day of game

The burglary is the latest in a rash of thefts at the homes of professional athletes over the past year

Sport

3 w. ago Who is Kemi Badenoch's husband Hamish? Tory leader uses conference speech to thank 'Ham' as she tells party members she 'would not be standing here today' without him

In her keynote address to the Tory gathering in Manchester, Mrs Badenoch hailed the party as 'my family', adding this was 'in many ways quite literally'.

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3 w. ago O'Connor funeral: Mourners gather to say goodbye to family found murdered at home

Heartbroken mourners gathered to honour Mark, Louise and Evan O'Connor - a much-loved Co Louth family who were murdered in a shocking attack at their home last week

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3 w. ago ‘Are the neighbours’ curtains twitching? Good!’ Avril A, the 80s housewife who became a star of Manchester’s gay scene

She sang out of tune, her choreography was bizarre – and everyone who saw her loved her. As her superb music is rereleased, her family and fans recall a subcultural greatWhen Joanne Rosenthal was a kid in Manchester, gatherings of her religious Jewish family were enlivened by the presence of her uncle’s eccentric wife. “Mad eye makeup; larger than life. You’d say to her: ‘Auntie Avril, can I give you some more chicken?’ And she’d say: ‘Go on, Joanne, my punters love me with a bit of meat on.’ Hang on, what are you talking about, your punters?”There would be other “tantalising references to her career on stage” besides, but no further info. “Everyone’s sitting there at Passover or Jewish New Year and no one asks any follow-up questions!” Rosenthal continues. “It’s like everyone accepts that Auntie Avril is this subversive presence. When I told her I was getting into music, she said: ‘Quit school, join a band, get on the road, never look back – you won’t regret it.’ It was a very humd...

Culture

4 w. ago Plainclothes review – shame and anxiety in entrapment yarn about a gay cop going undercover

A quietly observed New York police story explores desire, friendship and the pressures of identityOne day, someone is going to make a film about a cop who goes undercover and doesn’t get too close to the people he’s spying on and doesn’t start questioning his own identity and life choices. Until that day comes, here’s Carmen Emmi’s drama about a cop in early 90s New York who is part of an entrapment team at a suburban shopping mall prosecuting gay men who cruise the bathrooms (a type of police work that you might think went out in the era of Alan Turing).Tom Blyth plays Lucas, an undercover officer suffering from depression after the death of his dad and breakup with his girlfriend to whom he confessed having feelings for men; his nervous unease is not made any easier by a loudmouthed homophobic uncle at family gatherings. The movie is interspersed with Lucas’s anxiety-flash glimpses of his own life, significantly shot in the same dull, flat analogue video that the cops use to recor...

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4 w. ago In our family, there’s been zero doubt about Diego Luna’s USMNT identity

The attacking midfielder’s path to representing the US was natural for him, even if it seemed unorthodox to othersLike many California-raised Mexican Americans, I’ve lost count of the times my family has gathered to watch a match between Mexico and the United States. Whether a friendly or World Cup qualifier, the “Dos A Cero” rivalry attracts the largest crowds to my tia’s watch parties, about an hour south of San Francisco.Each clash feels like the fractured embodiment of being Mexican American: the cheering and moaning of Mexican immigrant parents and their Americanized children alike, rife with intergenerational discord. The stakes are always high, especially since most of my relatives grew up with the sport – and aren’t shy about sharing their tactical opinions midgame. Many of them played pro, semi-pro, collegiately and, of course, at the neighborhood parks. Continue reading...

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