57 m. ago Violence erupts at man's wake as his girlfriend leaves love rival 'lucky to be alive'

The mum-of-one walked free from court - while her victim said she was lucky to be alive

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88 m. ago Smiling Sam Thompson breaks cover after ex Zara McDermott and Louis Tomlinson pictured together

Sam Thompson has been pictured leaving his home in London after his ex-girlfriend Zara McDermott was pictured with Louis Tomlinson for the first time amid their romance

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2 h. ago Smiling Sam Thompson breaks cover after Zara McDermott and Louis Tomlinson debut romance

Made In Chelsea star Sam Thompson appeared in high spirits as he was seen leaving his home in South London following pictures of his ex-girlfriend holding hands with her new love interest, One Direction star Louis Tomlinson

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5 h. ago The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

The philanthropist offers sensible advice about moving on and ditching perfectionism, but you get the impression she is struggling to take it herselfMelinda French Gates is a woman who seemingly leaves little to chance. From girlhood she would write down goals for herself to reach, and she was just as driven at college and in her early career at Microsoft, where she famously met and married its billionaire co-founder Bill Gates. The couple divorced in 2021.There is a small, sad moment in her memoir The Next Day where she writes of happily gaining weight in pregnancy because it was the first time she’d felt so free “from perfectionism the crushing relentless societal pressure to look a certain way”. Only well into middle age, when a friend gently questions her constant self-improvement projects, does she wonder whether in her conscientiousness she had “missed opportunities to embrace spontaneity, lean into the unexpected”. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago 'Dangerous' sex offender, 25, who targeted young girls leaving school dies in prison

Steven Collins was caught out after two of his victims caught him filming under their school skirts in Tameside

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3 d. ago Nicky Katt, Dazed and Confused and School of Rock actor, dies aged 54

‘Nicky was an absolute joy on and off camera,’ said director Robert Rodriguez, among those including Richard Linklater paying tribute to the late actorThe actor Nicky Katt, who made a career primarily playing tough villains in films and TV shows over the past three decades, has died at the age of 54.The news was confirmed by his attorney, John Sloss, and reportedly happened on 8 April in Burbank, California. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Nicky Katt dies as tributes paid to Dazed and Confused and School of Rock star

The actor also starred in Sister Act and the hit TV show Friends, in a career spanning five decades.

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4 d. ago Nicky Katt dead: Dazed and Confused and School of Rock star dies as friends pay tribute

Hollywood actor Nicky Katt has died at the age of 54 after appearing in films such as Dazed and Confused and School of Rock with friends and industry colleagues paying tribute

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4 d. ago London leaver: 'I didn’t want my girls growing up feeling scared'

A brush with an armed gang while pregnant prompted this family’s move to Surrey

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5 d. ago 'Most dangerous sex position' in the world is responsible for an unbelievable amount of injuries

One sex position could be responsible for half of all penile fractures an agonizing injury that can lead to an extremely embarrassing trip to the emergency department.

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7 d. ago Paedo 'manipulated' girlfriend into leaving him alone with tot who called him 'dada'

He was jailed after failing to inform his new girlfriend he was a registered sex offender, which saw him left alone in the home with her naked two-and-a-half-year-old son.

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7 d. ago Paedo 'manipulated' girlfriend into leaving him alone with toddler who called him 'dada'

Pervert Gary Cookson was jailed after failing to inform his new girlfriend he was a registered sex offender, which saw him left alone in the home with her naked two-and-a-half-year-old son

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9 d. ago Everyday people: the parking wardens, estate agents and more who inspired classic songs

After the death of Joe DePugh, the high school baseball player hymned in Springsteen’s Glory Days, we look at the ordinary inspirations for extraordinary hitsLast week Joe DePugh, a star high school baseball player from Freehold, New Jersey, died aged 75. It made headlines because he was the guy who “could throw that speedball by you / Make you look like a fool, boy” in Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 hit Glory Days – one of the numerous ordinary people that have proved inspirational in pop. Continue reading...

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1 week ago NUTRITIONIST KIM PEARSON: Cheaper than Ozempic, here's my guide to the old school diets that still work and FAST... how to do them safely, and lose weight in just one week

Here I've devised three plans based on diets that were popular with your mothers' and grandmothers' generation.

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1 week ago Girl, 13, cries 'leave us alone' as she's repeatedly kicked in head on train

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The family of a 13-year-old girl say she is "traumatised" after she was attacked on a Metro train last Friday, leaving her with a broken wrist and clumps of hair missing

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1 week ago NUTRITIONIST KIM PEARSON: Cheaper than Ozempic, here's my guide to the old school diets still work and FAST... here's how to do them safely and lose weight in just one week.

Here I've devised three plans based on diets that were popular with your mothers' and grandmothers' generation.

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1 week ago NUTRIONIST KIM PEARSON: Cheaper than Ozempic, here's my guide to the old school diets still work and FAST... here's how to do them safely and lose weight in just one week.

Here I've devised three plans based on diets that were popular with your mothers' and grandmothers' generation.

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1 week ago Boy's death in Kentucky flooding raises questions about why school district didn't cancel classes

A 9-year-old Kentucky boy who died in floodwaters while walking to catch his school bus is being remembered by his teacher as the “sweetest, kindest boy.”

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1 week ago Harrowing final social media post of Austin Metcalf who died in brother's arms after being stabbed at track meet

Metcalf, a star high school football player, died in his twin brother's arms after he was stabbed in the heart at a track and field meet in Texas for asking someone to get out of his seat.

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1 week ago The far right has seemed unstoppable in Europe. Here’s how Trump’s tariffs could change that | Nathalie Tocci

With populist leaders on the back foot and EU support at its highest in years, the US trade war could be an opportunity for the unionDonald Trump has unleashed a trade war on the world, and Europe, considered by Washington to be among the “worst offenders”, is a major target. After hitting European steel, aluminium and cars, this week Trump announced sweeping 20% tariffs on almost all EU imports. Europeans have seen this coming for a long time. Well before his re-election, officials in Brussels were drawing up plans on how the EU might respond to Trump 2.0 and a possible transatlantic trade war.What might the political fallout in Europe be? The good news is that Trump’s trade war puts Trump-friendly far-right forces in Europe in a terribly uncomfortable position. It’s one thing for the European far right to support Trump in principle, or to support the administration’s tyranny over peoples it doesn’t care about, be it Ukrainians, Canadians, Mexicans or Palestinians. It’s quite anoth...

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