4 h. ago Narrow stereotypes of Arab Australians ignore the complexity of who we are | Oula Ghannoum, Nouha Francis and Mariam Maatooq

Essays, novels, poems and plays can do what headlines can’t. They weave human lives into forms that invite understanding, reminding us that migration is part of Australia’s shared storyTime and time again, the story of the Arab migrant appears in the media in narrow and damaging ways: victims in their homelands, shootings in the suburbs, demonstrations in the streets, arrests linked to terrorism or crime. These images have become shorthand for “Arabness” in Australia.What is rarely seen is the complexity of who we are. Occasionally, a “success story” surfaces, but it is framed as an exception rather than part of a broader, vibrant community. For most Australians, Arab voices remain invisible. The everyday lives of Arab Australians, growing up between languages, caring for family, excelling in business, academia or the arts, barely register in public imagination. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Mum’s home cooking really DOES taste better than anyone else’s, a study has revealed

HUNGRY Brits with a sweet tooth prefer a home-baked cake over a slice prepared by a swanky London hotel pastry chef, a study revealed. While a taste of luxury at the Savoy's award-winning restaurant may sound appealing - it turns out mum's cooking takes the cake. Researchers concluded the secret ingredient really is love. A...

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5 h. ago ITV Big Brother viewers issue plea as they air concern for Glasgow star

Big Brother fans have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the ITV show

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8 h. ago Thomas Skinner says 'Amy didn't deserve to be first out' after Strictly elimination

Strictly Come Dancing star Thomas Skinner has broken his social media silence after becoming the first contestant to be eliminated from the 2025 competition in tonight's show

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8 h. ago Mount Everest rescue under way after snowstorm traps nearly 1,000 people

Hundreds of trekkers stranded by blizzard on eastern face of mountain in Tibet already guided to safety by rescuersRescue efforts are under way on Mount Everest after a snowstorm trapped nearly 1,000 people in campsites on the eastern side of the mountain, according to Chinese state media.Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of the mountain in Tibet were guided to safety by rescuers on Sunday, as unusually heavy precipitation including rain pummelled the Himalayas. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago TV chef sparks debate after revealing she breastfed daughter until she was FOUR

TV chef Jasmine Hemsley has revealed she breastfed her daughter until she was four and a half years old, while continuing to breastfeed her toddler who is nearly two-years-old

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11 h. ago Woman, 22, posted sarcastic Facebook post after 'setting sister's bed on fire as she slept'

Addison Brown allegedly set her sister's bed on fire in June 2025, and after months of investigation she has been arrested, and made a series of bizarre posts on social media about it

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12 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing judge branded 'rude' by viewers of comment to two stars

Strictly Come Dancing fans have taken to social media to criticise one judge over their comments to two stars of the show during Saturday (October 4) night. People have vented about the situation online

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13 h. ago Two schoolgirls killed in horror New York ‘train surfing’ stunt as bodies found

The two girls, including one aged just 13, were pronounced dead at Marcy Avenue station in New York - police believe they had been taking part in the deadly 'subway surfing' social media trend

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14 h. ago 996 work culture is sad and inhumane. Whatever’s wrong with 888 – or even 000? | Emma Beddington

Silicon Valley is keen, once more, on a working pattern of 12-hour days, six days a week. It really is time for a new approach ...My current cultural comfort food is The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ deeply silly Manhattan toffs-in-bustles drama, in which one storyline (summarily dealt with due to lack of taffeta-rustling opportunities, I suspect) features a tycoon’s downtrodden steelworkers going on strike for “888”: eight hours each of work, sleep and recreation.That wasn’t a revolutionary demand in the 1880s. The slogan, coined by the utopian social reformer Robert Owen, dates from 1817 (his New Lanark mill workers still did 10.5-hour days, though). Even then, it wasn’t unprecedented: apparently, a 16th-century Spanish ordinance limited New World construction workers to eight-hour days. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Mason Mount: Man Utd blocking media noise rather than getting caught up in it

Mount said the team were “100 per cent behind the gaffer”.

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16 h. ago ‘Baltimore has the worst PR of any city in America’: a culture critic on his hometown, race, police and art

Lawrence Burney’s new book, No Sense in Wishing, comes at a time when the US is facing a crackdown on cities, art, culture and educationLawrence Burney’s latest, No Sense in Wishing, is a book in which the famous phenom and dark horse share equal weight on the page. It’s also a love letter to Baltimore – to its artists, its crabs and its streets – and a Bildungsroman that finds its heroes in Lupe Fiasco and Frederick Douglass alike.Burney, a Baltimore native, culture critic, and essayist, guides us through a memoir about the art, whether films or paintings or song lyrics, that have informed his personal and professional trajectory. He writes about growing up amongst artists with Black family traditions rooted in the Chesapeake, his journey through fatherhood at 19, and then to New York, where he helped spearhead Vice’s coverage of lesser known rap and hip-hop artists otherwise left out of mainstream media coverage. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago ‘Baltimore has the worst PR of any city in America’: a culture critic on his home town, race, police and art

Lawrence Burney’s new book, No Sense in Wishing, comes at a time when the US is facing a crackdown on cities, art, culture and educationLawrence Burney’s latest, No Sense in Wishing, is a book in which the famous phenom and dark horse share equal weight on the page. It’s also a love letter to Baltimore – to its artists, its crabs and its streets – and a Bildungsroman that finds its heroes in Lupe Fiasco and Frederick Douglass alike.Burney, a Baltimore native, culture critic, and essayist, guides us through a memoir about the art, whether films or paintings or song lyrics, that have informed his personal and professional trajectory. He writes about growing up amongst artists with Black family traditions rooted in the Chesapeake, his journey through fatherhood at 19, and then to New York, where he helped spearhead Vice’s coverage of lesser known rap and hip-hop artists otherwise left out of mainstream media coverage. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago How two blonde suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a livestream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube to speculate about the condition of “Cankles McTacoTits”, shortened to Canks “for expediency and spite”.It was fitting for the profanity-laced, straight talking liberal podcast I’ve Had It that quipped, after interviewing Barack Obama, that the former president has “big dick energy”. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago How two blond suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a livestream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube to speculate about the condition of “Cankles McTacoTits”, shortened to Canks “for expediency and spite”.It was fitting for the profanity-laced, straight talking liberal podcast I’ve Had It that quipped, after interviewing Barack Obama, that the former president has “big dick energy”. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Belgian media make same Man Utd point after Senne Lammens' debut

Senne Lammens made his Manchester United debut in the 2-0 win over Sunderland and the Belgian goalkeeper was praised by the media in his home country

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17 h. ago 'Man smeared unknown substance on me but it was more sinister than I imagined'

Social media creator Ami Alex, 27, from Blackburn, often calls out bad behaviour on her channel, but there was one incident that left her feeling seriously uncomfortable after it happened

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17 h. ago The Arula Chalets: a blissful mountain break in the Austrian Alps

Fresh mountain air, 24/7 hospitality and a private chef — is this the perfect place for a total reset? Rebecca Thornton finds out

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17 h. ago Everything you need to know about Lewis Hamilton's dog Roscoe as tributes pour in

Lewis Hamilton's beloved bulldog Roscoe, who sadly passed away last weekend, had become something of a celebrity in his own right with a huge following on social media

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17 h. ago Belgian media make Liverpool point after Senne Lammens' Man United debut

Senne Lammens made his first Manchester United appearance on Saturday, keeping a clean sheet as Ruben Amorim's team got the better of Sunderland in the Premier League

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