3 d. ago Inside Melania Trump's astronomically priced luxury bag collection

Melania Trump has a designer bag collection that's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars - and her library of Hermès Birkin and Kelly purses are enough to make anyone envious.

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3 d. ago Ireland will offer migrant families up to 10,000 euros in return for dropping their asylum claims

The country is experiencing a chronic housing shortage and the payment is aimed at easing the pressure on the asylum seeker system.

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3 d. ago California mansions worth hundreds of millions on verge of collapsing into ocean after cliff crumbled

A coastal bluff along Marguerite Drive in Rancho Palos Verdes gave way on Saturday night, which is home to multiple properties worth millions of dollars.

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5 d. ago New record set for most migrants crossing the Channel to the UK on a single boat

The passage to the UK on Saturday saw 125 people on one vessel come over from France, it is understood. Pictured: Border Force escorts migrants into Dover on Saturday

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5 d. ago Child dies while reportedly trying to reach UK in small boat

Body of teenager found on beach in northern France after three other people die in Channel crossings on SaturdayA child is believed to have died while trying to cross the Channel in a small boat, according to French reports. The body of the teenager, who was believed to have fallen from a dinghy, was discovered on a beach in northern France on Sunday.The death follows those of three other people on Saturday who were trying to reach the UK – two Somali women who were reportedly crushed in a boat, and a man whose body was recovered from a canal in the town of Gravelines, near Dunkirk. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Child dies after falling off migrant boat carrying nearly 100 people in the English Channel

The horrific incident on Sunday morning followed two Somali women dying in similar circumstances the day before (pictured)

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6 d. ago Two female migrants die while attempting to cross the Channel after dinghy carrying 100 people sinks

French police said the women died by suffocation or drowning after the overloaded boat set off for the UK at around 3.15am.

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6 d. ago Game of Thrones power couple Kit Harington & Rose Leslie own £660k plush pad near asylum seeker hotel

GAME of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie own a plush pad near a hotel housing 120 asylum seekers. The showbiz couple spent £660,000 on the flat near Edinburgh city centre six months after their 2018 wedding. It is close to the controversial Learmonth Hotel in the capital’s West End which is being used...

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6 d. ago Channel tragedy: Two women dead after boat carrying 100 people capsizes

Around 60 people were rescued from the overnight incident

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8 d. ago Rare 50p coins 'that could make you rich' with one selling for £2,000

Certain 50p coins could be worth a lot more than face value, with some flogging for hundreds if not thousands. Here are three specific coins to keep an eye out for

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1 week ago Ania Magliano: ‘My favourite gig? I did some material about vibrators and a 92

The standup on Taskmaster, her time in the Cambridge Footlights and the geniuses behind Colin the CaterpillarWhat made you get into comedy? In primary school I wasn’t very cool. I never got Hula Hoops in my packed lunches because my Polish mum would give me cucumbers and I hadn’t seen High School Musical because we didn’t have Sky. Without those two major assets, you had to find a “thing” and mine became trying to make people laugh. I made a YouTube channel when I was 14, then eventually worked at the Edinburgh fringe when I was 18, and saw some amazing standup. I also saw some really bad standup. I thought: well, I can definitely do that!What’s been one of your all-time favourite gigs? I did one where the average age of the audience was over 70. I decided to do some material about a vibrator and they absolutely loved it. A 92-year-old gave me some tips on the different settings. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Students told to 'check accounts' as payments worth hundreds made

The first maintenance loans were given to students yesterday

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1 week ago More than 1,000 people arrive in UK in small boats in one day

Home Office figures for Friday end a spell of more than a week with no new arrivals in Dover due to poor weatherMore than 1,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats on Friday, according to Home Office figures, ending a spell of more than a week with no new arrivals.Thirteen boats carrying 1,072 individuals made the crossing on Friday, which averages more than 80 people a boat. It is the third time this year the figure for a single day has surpassed 1,000 and brings the total number this year to a record 32,103. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nearly 1,100 illegal migrants arrive in the UK in one DAY as Nigel Farage rages at Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal and claims 'invasion is getting bigger'

More than a thousand people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Friday as the Government sent a third person back to France.

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1 week ago A thousand in but just three out: 1,072 migrants crossed the Channel yesterday in 13 boats as Starmer's 'one in, one out' scheme fails to deter

More than a thousand people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Friday as the Government sent a third person back to France.

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2 w. ago Channel people smuggler warns 2,000 asylum seekers could be sent to Britain EVERY DAY using new bigger boats in an industry now worth 'hundreds of millions'

The second migrant was successfully deported to France as part of the agreement this morning - only for hundreds more to set off in dinghies from a beach near Calais.

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2 w. ago DWP payment worth hundreds every month available for 'chronic conditions'

Many people could be eligible for support from the Department for Work and Pensions

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2 w. ago Hundreds attempt Channel crossing as second migrant deported in UK

An inflatable dinghy full of men, women and at least three children made its way out to sea from Gravelines beach at daybreak on Friday morning.

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2 w. ago China’s ‘temple economy’ in the spotlight as scandals rock influential religious leaders

Powerful Buddhist monks who have previously escaped punishment are the latest target of the government’s crackdown on excess wealth and alleged corruptionFor a religious leader, the allegations were scandalous. Mistresses, illegitimate children, embezzlement. But in 2015, the head abbott of Shaolin monastery, the cradle of Zen Buddhism and kung-fu in China, was untouchable. Shi Yongxin, the so-called “CEO monk” who turned the 1,500-year-old monastery into a commercial empire worth hundreds of millions of yuan, held firm. Soon he was cleared of all charges.But 10 years later, the 60-year-old monk was not so lucky. In July, not long after Shi returned from a trip to the Vatican to meet the late Pope Francis, the Shaolin Temple released a statement saying that he was being investigated for allegedly misappropriating funds and for fathering illegitimate children with multiple mistresses. Less than a fortnight later he was dismissed and stripped of his monkhood. He has not been heard fro...

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2 w. ago First ‘one in, one out’ deportation flight reportedly takes off without migrants

Group of people who crossed Channel by boat understood not to have been on Air France plane after legal challengeThe first flight to France carrying people who crossed the Channel under Keir Starmer’s “one in, one out” deal has not taken place as planned, according to reports.A small group of individuals were removed from an Air France flight on Monday due to travel from Heathrow to Paris after a legal challenge, according to multiple newspaper reports. Continue reading...

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