3 h. ago Christmas gift guide 2025: Presents for her, him and kids from £5

Your ultimate guide to Christmas gifting– packed with brilliant buys for her, him and the little ones, no matter your budget or style

Economics

47 h. ago ‘Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping’: the lawless rush for rare earth minerals in Venezuela

Guerrilla groups have seized control of mining areas, exploiting Indigenous people and fuelling environmental ruin on the border with ColombiaFor months, Brig Gen Rafael Olaya Quintero, commander of the Orinoco naval force, has been chasing tin and coltan traffickers across the waterways at Colombia’s border with Venezuela.His mission has become more urgent since the global shift towards clean energy has generated an unprecedented rush for rare earth elements and critical minerals. These materials are vital components in electric vehicle batteries, wind turbines, fighter jets and guided missiles, with demand also driven by increased defence budgets in the EU, US and China, and throughout the world. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar roaming the online world

In seven days my young alter ego is cyberbullied and attacked while exploring clubs, casinos and horror games, all with parental controls in place. Is the platform safe for children – or an ‘X-rated paedophile hellscape’?I am an eight-year-old girl, standing near-naked in a room full of strangers.As the room spins and zooms upon me and people glide around me, I clock my features. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Judi Love's Debenhams Christmas gift guide includes £89 trench coat that looks like vintage Burberry

The £89 trench coat in Judi Love's Debenhams Christmas gift guide looks like it could be vintage Burberry

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5 d. ago Olivia Attwood’s Debenhams Christmas gift guide includes £1,500 watch on sale for £128

Olivia Attwood has selected some of her favourite pieces to gift this Christmas at Debenhams, including a £1.5k watch that's on sale for less than £130

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5 d. ago ‘I’m so excited’: Jesse Eisenberg is donating a kidney to a stranger

Actor and director, who is already a regular blood donor, says that he will make the organ donation next monthJesse Eisenberg has revealed that he is donating a kidney to a stranger next month. The actor and director told NBC’s Today that he was “donating my kidney in six weeks” but wasn’t entirely sure of his motivation.“I don’t know why,” he said. “I got bitten by the blood donation bug. I’m doing an altruistic donation [in] mid-December. I’m so excited to do it.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Olivia Attwood picks £1.5k watch that's slashed to £128 in her Debenham's Christmas gift guide

Debenhams has launched its Christmas 2025 campaign, and Olivia Attwood has shared her top picks for Christmas gifting including a £1.5k watch that's on sale for just £128

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9 d. ago Olivia Attwood’s Debenham’s Christmas gift guide includes £1.5k watch on sale for £128

Olivia Attwood is heading up Debenhams new Christmas campaign and has picked some of her favourite pieces to gift this year, including a £1.5k watch that’s on sale for £128

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9 d. ago Scaring my kids is really fun – but it’s also how I teach them to navigate a dangerous world | Christian White

By confronting imagined terrors, we rehearse for the real ones, learning that courage, wisdom and empathy are the true charms that keep the darkness at bayHere is one of my earliest memories: I was around four years old, standing in a playground somewhere in Preston, staring in wonder at three big rocks, each one splattered with red spray paint. I asked my nan about it. She could have told me the truth, that the paint was graffiti.Instead, she told me the rocks were a species of monster called bloodsuckers, and that at night they came alive to eat children who were foolish enough to stray outside after dark. I believed her with all my heart. Why wouldn’t I? She was my nan! Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kendall Jenner goes full showgirl glam in Nicole Kidman's iconic Moulin Rouge costume for starry Vogue World 2025 catwalk in Hollywood

Kendall Jenner went full showgirl glam as she wore Nicole Kidman's iconic Moulin Rouge costume as she strutted on the catwalk for the star-studded Vogue World 2025 show.

Culture

1 week ago LEGO Black Friday 2025: When sale starts and the best deals to expect

Everything we know about the 2025 LEGO Black Friday sales so far

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2 w. ago 5 brilliant October 2025 half term activities in and near Cardiff

Autumn half term is here. And there are still some last-minute things to do, Halloweeny and more

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2 w. ago 2025's best Christmas gifts for every single person on your list

From glam grans to inscrutable teens and even your neighbours, this shopping expert has all bases covered

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2 w. ago 10 best card games in 2025, tried and tested for kids and adults

From updated classics to new favourites, these games will go down a treat

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2 w. ago When my kids wrote a song using AI, all I could think was: you missed the fun part | Myke Bartlett

The arrival of AI is a chance to remind kids that the joy of creativity is not in what you made, but in the process of making itSomewhere in the middle of the last school holidays, as I was attempting to work from home, the kids came bounding down the stairs armed with a new song they had written. The lyrics were nonsensical (as you’d expect from a pair of preteens), but there was a surprising crispness to the rhyming structure.“We got ChatGPT to write it,” the eldest said. This was neither a confession nor a boast. Every 12-year-old knows the AI shortcut. Two minutes earlier, they didn’t have a song. Now they had something ready to perform. Admittedly the improvised melody could best be described as “indeterminate”, but the right prompt could have fixed that. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 25 things to do with kids in Manchester this October half term and Halloween 2025

There's lots of spooky fun for families over the school break

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3 w. ago ‘Teach kids internet bollocks, not my old rubbish,’ says Shakespeare: the Stephen Collins cartoon

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3 w. ago 9 best kids bunk beds in 2025, tried and tested for comfort and storage

Save space while still giving kids a place to play and rest

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3 w. ago 20 best stocking fillers for Christmas 2025, tested and approved by kids

From Bluetooth speakers to slime, these are the presents to get Santa some serious brownie points

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3 w. ago The Palestinian and Israeli kids trying to be friends – podcast

Today in Focus producer Natalie Ktena heads to a peace camp in Cyprus that aims to bring together children from Israel and the West BankThe 2025 Youth Peace Camp in Cyprus was no ordinary summer camp.Organised by the Parents Circle Families Forum, every year the camp brings together Palestinian and Israeli children, all of them touched in some way by conflict, occupation and loss. Continue reading...

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