1 hour ago I'm a photography expert, here's my guide to taking the perfect holiday selfie... everything from the right time of day to angles and iPhone tricks

Ever tried to snap a quick holiday selfie and ended up horrified with the results? MailOnline Travel has spoken to a pro photographer to get her best tips for the perfect holiday selfie.

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2 h. ago I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do itJust before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom.Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and f...

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3 h. ago ‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

When Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he talks to the Colombian novelist about literature and justiceWhat do law and literature have in common? Do they represent similar impulses towards understanding human motives and behaviour, or are they fundamentally different systems? In his new book, 38 Londres Street, lawyer and writer Philippe Sands revisits the attempts to extradite and prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, beginning in 1998, in which he was involved. He also finds himself on the trail of Walther Rauff, a former SS officer featured in Sands’s award-winning book East West Street, who went on to seek refuge in Chile, later becoming involved in the Pinochet regime’s arrangements for the detention, torture and murder of its opponents. The Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez, who trained as a lawyer but decided...

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3 h. ago Duffy suffers another heartbreak as mum dies 10 years after harrowing rape and kidnap ordeal

Warwick Avenue singer Duffy has suffered another heartbreak just weeks after she made an unexpected return to the spotlight following her horrific rape and kidnap ordeal

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4 h. ago Your ultimate guide to Spring TV: 30 treats you won't want to miss

Deliciously suspenseful dramas, tantalising true-crime documentaries, shiny new game shows... we've picked a fresh bunch of beauties for you.

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5 h. ago Are paedophile hunters heroes or dangerous vigilantes? Troubling questions arise after a string of men were driven to suicide before being charged with any crime

A string of vigilante paedophile hunters have been arrested and even jailed for crimes - including Tim Heron (pictured) who was found to possess an indecent image of a child.

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6 h. ago My message from prison: Just Stop Oil may be ending civil disruption, but the struggle must go on | Indigo Rumbelow

We forced the government to take some action, but still it closes it eyes to the impending climate collapse. A new method of confrontation is neededIndigo Rumbelow is co-founder of Just Stop Oil. She is currently on remand in HMP StyalAfter three years, Just Stop Oil is ending its campaign of non-violent civil disruption: we are hanging up the high-vis. But this does not mean the resistance is over. Sitting here in a prison cell in HMP Styal, I am still demanding an end to oil and gas. Every prison key that rattles, every door that is bolted shut, every letter that is read by the prison staff – it all reminds me that 15 Just Stop Oil supporters are currently locked up for refusing to obey governments whose climate inaction is frankly murderous.There has been some progress. The Labour government was elected last year on a manifesto including the pledge that they will “not issue new licences to explore new [oil and gas] fields”. This is a victory for civil resistance and the climate m...

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6 h. ago We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown review – you’ll read nothing else like it this year

This exhilarating debut about working-class girls growing up in the hope-starved atmosphere of a small northern English city feels essentialSometimes you need to leave a place before you can write about it, and Colwill Brown’s Doncaster from the late 90s to 2015 is that place. This lacerating, exhilarating debut novel, written almost entirely in South Yorkshire dialect, spans nearly 20 years in the lives of its protagonists Kel, Shaz and Rach, from the Spice Girls to the drug spice. It manages to be both boisterous and bleak, life-enhancing and life-denying, familiar and yet wholly original. It feels essential. You will probably read nothing else like it this year.“Remember when we thought Donny wut whole world? Before we knew we wa Northern, when we seemed to be central, when we carved countries out ut farmers’ fields, biking through neck-high rapeseed, cutting tracks ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punchline of a joke, or place they changed trains once ont way ...

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7 h. ago Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again | Jagan Chapagain

A record number of humanitarian workers were killed last year. My staff’s red uniforms should have protected them. Instead they became their death shroudsJagan Chapagain is secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of paramedicsWhich was most horrific? The agonising week-long wait – silence after our colleagues went missing, as we suspected the worst but hoped for something different? Or the confirmation, seven days later, that bodies had been found? Or, since, the ghastly details of how they were found, and killed?Their ambulances were crushed and partly buried. Nearby were their bodies – also buried, en masse, in the sand. Our dead colleagues were still wearing their Red Crescent vests. In life, those uniforms signalled their status as humanitarian workers; they should have protected them. Instead, in death, those red vests became their shrouds.Jagan Chapagain is secretar...

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7 h. ago ‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers• Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen againGaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over.The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances

Organisations that pumped money into overturning Roe v Wade are making inroads in Europe. Women’s rights are truly at riskWith Donald Trump as president, there is now a heavy strain of Christian nationalism driving the US political agenda. From draconian abortion policies to ending birthright citizenship, some of Trump’s first executive orders sound startlingly like something out of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the dystopian novel turned TV show set in Gilead, a fundamentalist, fascist version of the US where women have no rights. But it is urgent we understand that what is happening in the US could happen here. This road to Atwood’s Gilead is charting a course straight through the UK and Europe, and we may well be sleepwalking on to it.In November 2024 I debated with the American conservative lawyer Erin Hawley at the Oxford Union. The motion was “This house regrets the overturning of Roe v Wade”, the US supreme court’s landmark decision that once protected the right to h...

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9 h. ago The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia and then came to symbolise its moral decay – an Audio Long Read podcast

Victor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with his scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist?There are more Audio Long Reads here, or search Audio Long Read wherever you listen to your podcasts Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Gangland drama told through eyes of crime kingpins penned by ex

Anton O’Donnell, from Paisley, had no film making experience and a budget of just £5,000 when he decided to try and bring his script to life.

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11 h. ago UK crime lord issues terrifying threat amid gang war and firebombing campaign

Chilling new footage has emerged of the latest attacks in Edinburgh's gang war, with the mysterious perpetrators seeming to brand their operation with a gang name

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16 h. ago Oklahoma man is accused of gunning down priest outside of a Kansas Catholic church

Community members called the priest’s death ‘heartbreaking’ and a ‘tragedy’

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16 h. ago US department ‘disappointed’ by UK court’s conviction of anti

Livia Tossici-Bolt was found guilty at Poole Magistrates’ Court of two charges of breaching a Public Spaces Protection Order.

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16 h. ago Family horrified after bungling cemetery workers drop coffin causing nan's body to fall out

The dead woman's family screamed in horror after gathering around her grave during her funeral.

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16 h. ago Sir Elton John reveals he 'can't read, watch TV or see his boys play sports' as he opens up on 'distressing' battle with blindness

The legendary musician, 78, contracted a severe eye infection in July which left him blind in his right eye, with 'limited vision' in his left.

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17 h. ago Couple leave horrific racist message on receipt for horrified waiter at restaurant

Guillermo Ortiz, a waiter working at a Planet Hollywood restaurant at Los Angeles Airport, has shown a racist message that was left scribbled by a couple on a receipt

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17 h. ago Beyond Paradise exit 'sealed' for beloved character after heartbreaking 'bombshell'

Beyond Paradise was back on Friday and saw Humphrey Goodman solving another mysterious crime

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