65 m. ago What can laughing gas do to your body? 6 tonnes of nitrous oxide canisters cleaned up from Notting Hill Carnival 2024

What is laughing gas, why is it dangerous, and if you’re doing it, how can you maximise your safety?

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90 m. ago Plane goes missing over 'large body of water' as it's dubbed 'new MH370'

The small plane was carrying two passengers – a 'very experienced' pilot, 70, and his partner, in her 60s – when it vanished in the middle of a journey over the Bass Strait

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1 hour ago Cracker Barrel outrages conservatives with new logo: ‘This is your Bud Light moment’

Restaurant chain accused of going ‘woke’ and ‘scrapping a beloved American aesthetic’ by simplifying branding to remove folksy southern character from its signage

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2 h. ago BrewDog is 'struggling to be relevant' says bar chain that axed them

Loungers, a 300-strong bar chain, removed the Scottish group's products from sale two years ago after deciding it was struggling to stay relevant.

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2 h. ago Travel expert says you must check TV remote the moment you enter a hotel room

There’s one item in the room that has been touched by every guest before you and almost never gets cleaned properly: the humble TV remote. As a result, it attracts a surprising amount of bacteria

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2 h. ago Chloe Ferry removes BBL after sobbing she wished she'd never touched her body

Geordie Shore star Chloe Ferry underwent corrective surgery to remove her BBL earlier this year. She took to her social media to share before-and-after footage of her body

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2 h. ago Emmerdale's Mackenzie 'is still alive' as real identity of dead body in van 'unveiled'

Emmerdale's Mackenzie Boyd was seemingly murdered by John Sugden - but fans are certain he is still alive

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3 h. ago Number of asylum seekers in hotels up under Labour despite hundreds closing

The figures come just days after a court ruled that asylum seekers currently staying at a hotel in Essex should be removed

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3 h. ago Simple supermarket £1 trolley hack that shoppers 'wish they knew before'

"No trolley coin, no problem"

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3 h. ago Duolingo apologises after app calls JK Rowling ‘mean’ in German lesson

Language learning app said it has removed lesson referring to Harry Potter author in negative light

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4 h. ago Block Island ferry cancellations announced due to Hurricane Erin

Block Island ferry cancellations announced due to Hurricane Erin  WFSB

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4 h. ago Man 'cracks code' to getting potholes fixed painting them with St George cross

Ben says the council will have to fill the holes now as other authorities have been quick to remove the patriotic flags

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5 h. ago Hulk Hogan's estranged daughter makes chilling request to see police body cam

Wrestler Hulk Hogan's estranged daughter took to her Instagram Stories to claim she was told to request to see the body cam footage from the night of his death

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5 h. ago Man, 24, is held in Paris murder probe after four bodies are pulled from the Seine

The first body to be found was identified as a 40-year-old local man, prosecutors said, and had only been submerged in the water a short time before the discovery.

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5 h. ago Ucrania espera recibir pronto claridad sobre garantías de seguridad de EEUU y otros aliados

Ucrania llevará a cabo reuniones intensivas para entender qué tipo de garantías de seguridad están dispuestos a proporcionar sus aliados, después de recibir señales de que Estados Unidos respaldaría nuevas conversaciones para buscar el fin de la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania, dijo el presidente ucraniano, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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5 h. ago How long it takes for alcohol to leave your bloodstream as new drink driving rules considered

As the drink driving limit might be reduced for the first time in over half a century, you must know how long alcohol remains in your body

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6 h. ago ‘She did it, big time’: Ilona Maher’s road to becoming rugby’s biggest breakout star since Lomu

USA center was ‘the kid in the pink scrum cap’ then soared with a winning blend of speed, power and body positivityOne Saturday in September 2014, the women’s rugby team from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut travelled to Norwich, Vermont. On the home team, a powerful 18-year-old prop scored three tries in a convincing win.Quinnipiac coach Becky Carlson turned to her assistant. “Oh man,” she remembered saying. “Who’s the kid in the pink scrum cap? I’d give my right arm to have her. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Girl, 8, executed and had eyes gouged out in sinister 'sacrifice' for soon

A young girl was brutally murdered and had her body mutilated after being abducted for a ritual that a couple believed would help the birth of their future child

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9 h. ago ‘Pregnant, homeless, what now?’ The search for a safe place to abandon a baby

Each year, women make the desperate decision to abandon their babies. Specially designed ‘baby windows’ can help – but some argue they make matters worseWhen Romina discovered she was pregnant in 2021, she was 39 years old and homeless, without a euro to her name. She did what many a lonely and frightened woman has done throughout history, on learning that she was going to have a baby, and pretended she wasn’t. “If you don’t think about it, it doesn’t exist – something like that,” she told me, more than three years on.By the time she noticed the changes in her body, she had been homeless for nearly seven years. Before that, she had lived a comfortable, secure life in The Hague, with a man she had fallen passionately in love with. But the man had become controlling, she said, preventing her from working or seeing her friends, spying on her and eventually threatening her if she left him. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago The thong bikini boom: why the skimpiest swimwear is back – and suddenly mainstream

Once seen as controversial and the preserve of celebrities and Love Islanders, the style has become ubiquitous. Is this a sign of body positivity or something else entirely?There are plenty of places where no one would bat an eyelid at the sight of a thong bikini; on a beach in Brazil or around the Love Island fire pit, visible butt cheeks are practically de rigueur. But my first sighting this year was not while surfing in Australia or sunbathing in the Caribbean, but at an open-water swimming spot, on a rainy day in Scotland.I should not have been surprised. Tiny swimwear is huge news this summer. It is no longer confined to sunny climes, but cropping up everywhere from lidos to leisure centres – and lochs, apparently. Continue reading...

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