94 m. ago The ultimate signs of wealth: do you most covet a kitchen island – or early retirement?

Forget a Porsche and a Rolex. A new survey has thrown up some interesting signifiers of what it means to be wealthy todayName: Wealth signifiers.Age: We know from cave paintings and burial sites that Homo sapiens started to live a more settled life about 35,000 years ago – not just hunting and gathering, but trading, too. The ones who had the most tools, weapons, food and baskets were seen as the wealthy ones. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Couple ditch their daily strife for a new life living on uninhabited Irish island with no electricity, cars or hot water

Newlyweds Camille Rosenfeld, from Minnesota in the US, and James Hayes, from Tralee in Co Kerry, will live simple lives as caretakers on the rugged island from April 1 to September 31.

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27 h. ago Rep. Dan Crenshaw caught on hot mic threatening Tucker Carlson

RepublicanDan Crenshaw has been caught on a hot mic threatening political commentator Tucker Carlson.

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31 h. ago Liverpool have £35million Mo Salah replacement who has ‘exploded’ into life already

Liverpool have been told they already have the perfect replacement for Mohamed Salah in the form of Cody Gakpo, who has "shown what he can produce" in recent weeks, according to a club legend

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49 h. ago EastEnders star James Bye's wife says Martin Fowler will 'never be forgotten' in truth behind emotional death scene

The popular character lost his life in a live episode following an explosion at the Queen Vic

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54 h. ago How do I know young women are not OK? Their devastation over a doomed anglerfish | Emma Beddington

The death of one of the sea’s uglier creatures has led to an outpouring online. What is it about this unfortunate creature that has evoked such big feelings?Here’s an unexpected addition to our 2025 bingo card: young women across the internet have been devastated by the demise of a nightmarish fanged fish. A black seadevil anglerfish (unflatteringly described by one marine biologist as “pretty much evolved to be a giant head”), usually a deep-sea dweller, was recently caught on camera swimming close to the surface by a shark research group near Tenerife. Sadly, apparently sick or injured, it died.This, however, was only the start of the anglerfish’s journey in the hearts and TikToks of young women. The fish’s story has triggered an outpouring of emotion. The narrative they have adopted is that the tiny anglerfish, who lived her life in darkness, wanted to feel the “sun on her face”, so swam alone through the vast ocean to do that before expiring. There have been tattoos, poetry and ...

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3 d. ago Blake Lively criticizes ‘offensive’ magazine cover showing her and Justin Baldoni at war

The Hollywood Reporter cover shows Lively holding a phone loaded into a slingshot

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4 d. ago Strictly's Karen Hauer gives heartbreaking insight and says 'I don't know how I would have coped'

Karen Hauer has lived a nomadic life after leaving Venezuela aged eight, but there's four members of her family she describes as her "rocks".

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4 d. ago Wales vs Ireland LIVE: Score and updates from Six Nations as hosts begin life after Warren Gatland

Matt Sherratt begins his interim tenure in charge as the tournament favourites come to Cardiff

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4 d. ago The Instagram fitness craze that can have VERY harmful effects: Hot yoga can place 'extreme stress' on cardiovascular system 

Hot yoga, otherwise known as Bikram yoga, sees health-conscious participants across the globe exercising via poses akin to traditional yoga but in balmy temperatures.

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4 d. ago ‘I do feel we can be too prudish’: one woman’s experience as a life model

Life drawing hit the headlines when a north London class, which had been running for more than 30 years, was told to cover up its naked models or find a new location. Ellie Heney, 32, from Lancaster, has been a life model for 13 years and hopes to be one for the rest of her life. She explains whyIt was my first year of university in Liverpool and it was a typical broke student situation. I saw a poster saying £20 for life modelling and when you’re living on beans on toast you think: ‘Well, I can do that.’ So I gave it a go.It’s the strangest thing in the world when you do it for the first time. I remember my heart was pounding and the adrenaline was rushing and the back of my head was prickly because I was thinking: ‘What on earth am I doing? This is crazy!’ Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Godstone sinkhole pensioner, 87, refuses to leave house just metres from terrifying collapse

Bren Davis, 87, who says he was lived in his Godstone property all his life is refusing to leave despite the huge 65ft sinkhole opening up close to his home

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5 d. ago Nigel Owens and Jiffy make Sarra Elgan's life a misery on live TV over husband

The TV presenter is set to interview her own husband and ask him an awkward question this weekend

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5 d. ago ‘Our neighbours are daring to choose fascism again’: Germany’s election leaves many fearing what lies ahead

A high-stakes campaign defined by anti-migration rhetoric has stoked fear instead of discussion of pressing structural problemsFlanked by market stalls selling everything from Turkish borëk pastries to bedazzled iPhone cases, Lina, 53, confessed that she was racked with worry about what may lie ahead for her three children once Sunday night’s election is over.She has lived in Germany for decades, carving out a life for herself and her family after moving from Lebanon. Now – after a frenzied election campaign in which most politicians have scrambled to ward off the rise of the far right with tough talk on migrants – she wondered what the consequences would be for the lives they had painstakingly built. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler review – lost souls in postwar Vienna

A slice-of-life portrait of a community suffering the after-effects of the second world warAustrian novelist Robert Seethaler is known for his restrained and sensitive novels that illuminate the struggles and joys of peripheral lives. His debut, A Whole Life, centres on a man who barely leaves his mountain home. The Tobacconist is a coming-of-age novel set against the rise of fascism in Vienna. The Field introduces a chorus of the dead who tell the story of their village.Like The Field, The Café With No Name uses a narrow lens to tell the story of a whole community. At the centre is 31-year-old Robert Simon, an itinerant worker who assists the stall holders of the Karmelitermarkt in Vienna. In the late summer of 1966, Simon notices that the cafe on the corner of the market has closed. He decides to take on the lease in order “to do something which would give his life a positive affirmation. To one day stand behind the bar of his own establishment.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Sabrina Carpenter's favourite antioxidant hot drink that prevents illness

Sabrina Carpenter is a big fan of a hot drink that is packed with health benefits and has been linked to everything from weight loss to reducing your risk of heart disease

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6 d. ago Sabrina Carpenter swears by antioxidant hot drink that stops her getting ill

The 'Espresso' singer enjoys one drink every morning - and it has a range of health benefits

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6 d. ago Justin Baldoni allegedly asked Blake Lively a VERY crude question about her sex life with Ryan Reynolds

According to documents, the 37-year-old actress Lively alleges that Baldoni, 41, had asked an 'intrusive' question about her and Ryan Reynolds' sex life while filming It Ends With Us.

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6 d. ago Pensioner caused devastation after hitting tourist with car at shopping centre

A tourist visiting Liverpool on a day trip was left fighting for her life after she was hit by the retired HGV driver.

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7 d. ago Drømmer (Dreams) review – teen’s high romantic hopes throw adults into disarray

When Johanne, at 17, writes a memoir about her passion for teacher Johanna, the precocious result rattles three generationsHere is the third in a playful trilogy from Norwegian novelist and film-maker Dag Johan Haugerud (after Sex and Love, which appeared last year at Berlin and Venice respectively). This one is a sly, garrulous, mischievous piece with something of Lukas Moodysson’s early film Show Me Love; it saunters lightly and entertainingly along, breaking all the screenplay-seminar rules against voiceovers (of which it has lengthy stretches but it never feels oppressive). I can imagine two different sorts of US English-language remake: one which ramps up the wry indie comedy, and another which transfers the emphasis to a dead-serious generational family drama. Neither would have this insouciant flavour.The setting is Oslo and Ella Øverbye plays Johanne, a 17-year-old at high school who is dissatisfied with her life; she lives with single mum Kristin (Ane Dahl Torp) and is also...

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