4 d. ago ‘I have no doubt this cat could take him down!’: Dorothy O’Donnell’s best phone picture

The San Francisco photographer on a spontaneous moment that turned into a cute photoDorothy O’Donnell begins all her days at home in San Francisco with a coffee and a dog walk. The street photographer lives in North Beach, an area she loves “for its diversity and old San Fran charm. The combination of colourful characters and old Victorian buildings with interesting architectural details makes this area something of a street photographer’s paradise. There’s no shortage of photo opportunities, and plenty of cute cats and dogs, too.”The ears of Lucky, her chihuahua and miniature pinscher mix, are pictured here, frozen at the sight of a sworn enemy. “I have no doubt this cat could take him down!” O’Donnell says. “We’ve seen him a few times, monitoring the neighbourhood from this window.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago I visited the UK's best seaside town that's even better in autumn with cosy cafes and £50 rooms

The UK's coastlines are among the most stunning in the world and can be appreciated all year round, especially in autumn

Economics

7 d. ago Lady Victoria Starmer's 'classy' red cardigan that 'looks great with jeans' is £36 at M&S

The Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, and his wife Victoria took a walk around Liverpool on Tuesday, September 30 ahead of the Labour Party Conference

Economics

9 d. ago I shop at Sainsbury's every day but Aldi has 1 food item that's cheaper and better quality

I shop at both Aldi and Sainsbury's every day because I live within walking distance of both supermarkets, but there's one item that I will only buy from Aldi

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1 week ago We Americans love remaking British TV. Must the UK remake our odious politicians? | Dave Schilling

A recent trip to Britain from my native California presented some worrying truths about our shared political futureI’ve always wanted to visit the UK. This might sound absurd to you, considering I’m from California – home of sunshine, half-naked bodies and the studio where they film Jeopardy. What could possibly pull me to the cold, damp, gray shores of England? The oppressively brown food? The dodgy colonialist history? Tesco? No, it was the glowing box that vibrated with whatever passed for culture in my small town: television.British TV was an obsession in my house, via those purveyors of affordable, exotic entertainment at PBS. We’d get classy fare through the Masterpiece Theatre series, but also more downmarket comedies like Are You Being Served? (a variety of sexually obsessed retail clerks trip over each other) or Keeping Up Appearances (lower-middle-class oafs desperately wish they were posh). I had no concept of what people were saying in their thick accents or most of the ...

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1 week ago Farewell Amazon Fresh: the no tills thing was all a bit too awkward | Jason Okundaye

The ‘just walk out’ innovation promised frictionless shopping – but these days, maybe we all need a bit less tech in our livesAmazon Fresh, the till-free grocery shop that uses “just walk out” technology, is closing all 19 of its stores in London, just under five years after opening its first outlet. If you’re unfamiliar, the premise of the store is that shoppers identify themselves at the entrance, walk in, select the items that they want, and then a combination of AI, sensors and computer vision determine the items in their basket and process an automatic payment via a customer’s Amazon account when they walk out.If that sounds weird and disorienting then I can assure you – having visited an outlet out of pure curiosity and having left distressed – it is. Among the reasons given for the venture’s failure, from location choices to struggling to differentiate itself in the market, one financial analyst has suggested that till-less technology “always felt a little awkward”. When I vi...

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1 week ago Miracle mum given 20 minutes to live learns to walk and talk by mimicking baby daughter

A fundraising appeal has been launched for Rachel Harry, who was given just two hours to live when her heart stopped for 20 minutes in July 2012 as she gave birth

Politics

1 week ago This Morning viewers 'feel ill' as woman walks like a dog live on air

This Morning viewers were left feeling 'freaked out' when a woman started walking like a dog live on air and took to social media to slam the bizarre segment on the ITV show

Society

1 week ago Canada: order to cull more than 400 ostriches over bird flu fears ruffles feathers

Activists and Trump supporters protest at Universal Ostrich Farms even after 69 birds succumbed to flu-like illnessPolice have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists and prominent allies of Donald Trump – has led to intimidation, harassment and death threats against businesses in a small British Columbia town.Universal Ostrich Farms, near the town of Edgewood, was ordered in May to cull more than 400 birds, amid fears of an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu, and earlier this week officials seized control of the business. Sixty-nine birds have already died after the outbreak of a flu-like illness, but on Wednesday Canada’s supreme court issued an interim stay on the cull order as it weighed whether to hear the case. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Canada: order to cull over 400 ostriches sparks death threats for local businesses

Activists and Trump supporters protest at Universal Ostrich Farms even after 69 birds succumbed to flu-like illnessPolice have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists and prominent allies of Donald Trump – has led to intimidation, harassment and death threats against businesses in a small British Columbia town.Universal Ostrich Farms, near the town of Edgewood, was ordered in May to cull more than 400 birds, amid fears of an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu, and earlier this week officials seized control of the business. Sixty-nine birds have already died after the outbreak of a flu-like illness, but on Wednesday Canada’s supreme court issued an interim stay on the cull order as it weighed whether to hear the case. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Canada: order to cull over 400 ostriches sparks protests and death threats

Activists and Trump supporters protest at Universal Ostrich Farms even after 69 birds succumbed to flu-like illnessPolice have warned that the growing furore around a Canadian ostrich farm – fanned by animal rights activists and prominent allies of Donald Trump – has led to intimidation, harassment and death threats against businesses in a small British Columbia town.Universal Ostrich Farms, near the town of Edgewood, was ordered in May to cull more than 400 birds, amid fears of an outbreak of H5N1 avian flu, and earlier this week officials seized control of the business. Sixty-nine birds have already died after the outbreak of a flu-like illness, but on Wednesday Canada’s supreme court issued an interim stay on the cull order as it weighed whether to hear the case. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’

Allegations of environmental breaches dog Anglo American’s mining operations. Now the company has been given the go-ahead for plans that communities say risk disasterPhotographs by Nicole KrammPatricia Silva lays out an array of medicines and doctors’ letters on her kitchen table. She lives a few kilometres from a copper foundry operated by the British-headquartered mining company Anglo American in Catemu, a town in central Chile. Every morning and evening, she says, the air is filled with a faint blue smoke.“It irritates your throat and makes you cough,” Silva says, remembering a day when her son Cristián, then three years old, began to have convulsions. “His face turned purple and he couldn’t breathe. He still has a red mark on his face from that episode.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Completely abandoned' British town that's 'like living in The Walking Dead'

The area has been abandoned for more than a decade and was home to more than 12,000 residents

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3 w. ago ‘There’s a basic decency among British people’: Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles on how to defeat the far right

Lowles has spent his entire adult life organising against fascism, facing countless threats as a result. He discusses the street confrontations of the 80s, foiling a murder plot, Nazi satanists – and the urgent need for optimism and actionIn 1979, a 10-year-old Nick Lowles saw a hard-right party political broadcast. Born in Hounslow in London, he had moved to Shrewsbury when he was seven: “A very white town. There was a British Movement march soon after we moved up there.” Theirs was a “small-P political household”. His dad was a social worker, his mum worked for various charities. “She was from Mauritius, and now on the telly, the National Front were saying they were going to send people who weren’t born in Britain home in six months. I was petrified that my mum was going to get sent home.” The ambient racism of 70s and 80s Britain permeated everything. “I just remember being scared,” Lowles says. “We used to go on holiday and I tan really easily. I was frightened of coming back to...

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3 w. ago 'I visited Disney World in Florida and was taken aback by worrying detail'

One Disney fan took a trip to the Orlando theme park after reports that people were abandoning it in droves – what he found took him by complete surprise

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3 w. ago 2025 Emmy Awards live: Stars walk the red carpet on TV’s biggest night as Severance tops nominations

Nate Bargatze is hosting this year’s Emmy Awards, which kick off tonight in Los Angeles at 8pm ET

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3 w. ago The British market town that's 'essentially unchanged and uninfluenced by the world'

The small town of Thirsk in North Yorkshire has been described as a "gem" and a "charming" place to visit, with a bustling market square and a selection of independent shops

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3 w. ago Italian hidden gem with 'most beautiful' scenes where The White Lotus was filmed

A British holidaymaker has shared a look at the 'most beautiful' Italian town of Taormina in Sicily, which is where the second season of The White Lotus was filmed

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3 w. ago Boxing tonight: How to watch, live stream and ring walk time for Canelo vs Crawford

As Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford prepare to trade blows in Las Vegas in front of a worldwide audience, here's everything you need to know about watching the mega-fight

Sport

4 w. ago Tube strike latest LIVE: Trains running on SIX London Underground lines despite RMT walkout

Central, Circle, District, Northern, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines resume some services despite the RMT strike

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