22 h. ago Corrie's Amanda Barrie: `I'm sworn off pork after op to put pig valve in my heart'

Coronation Street and Bad Girls icon Amanda Barrie opens up to columnist Jessica Boulton about turning 90, plastic surgery, her spicy memoir and undergoing TWO life-changing operations in just six months

Politics

40 h. ago Adult star Natalia Rae dies on holiday as sister takes over account to announce tragedy

Tributes have poured in from fans for a popular adult star who passed away on holiday – with a fundraiser launched by family to get her body back from her holiday

Events

43 h. ago An expert guide to what you can do to help prevent hair loss

The reality is that thinning hair has many causes and no single miracle cure

Politics

63 h. ago Giorgio Armani: Life of the legendary Italian designer who redefined luxury fashion

The designer who popularised the unstructured suit and defined modern red-carpet dressing has died at 91

Culture

3 d. ago Teenager arrested and charged after 'life and soul of family' dies in Edinburgh

John McNab, 22, was found injured on Great Junction Street, at Bonnington Road, at around 2.10am on Tuesday.

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3 d. ago ‘The Dubai of South America’: how the promise of riches from lithium mining turned to dust in Bolivia

Politicians have long promised the critical metal will rescue the economy but Indigenous locals say the push to exploit vast reserves threatens the ecosystem and their livelihoods• Photographs by Sara Aliaga TiconaGrowing up near Bolivia’s Uyuni salt flats, Franz Alí Ramos remembers playing in the high-altitude wetlands near his home during the rainy season. “It was a beautiful recreation area for us and for animals,” he says.Now, the wetlands have given way to cracked, sunbaked earth – a change that Alí Ramos blames on nearby operations by Bolivia’s state lithium corporation, Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB). The government has recently signed lithium mining contracts with two foreign companies – one Russian and the other Chinese – and residents fear more serious damage is yet to come. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago First pic of man who died in Edinburgh 'stabbing' as family pay tribute to 'life and soul'

John McNab was hailed as "one in a million" and "the loveliest boy ever" after news of his death broke on social media.

Events

4 d. ago Four horrifying words as first woman to die in 'suicide pod' ended her life

The first woman to die in a 'suicide pod' in the middle of a Swiss forest was found with mysterious strangulation marks on her neck, raising questions about her death

Events

4 d. ago 'My leg snapped in half as I sat on the sofa, what came next was terrifying'

A woman whose femur bone shattered while she was sat on the couch thought she was going to die on the operating table after being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness

Events

5 d. ago The phenomenon that turns your bad diet and drinking into life

A puzzling medical phenomenon named for scientist Raphael Cuomo is turning conventional wisdom about disease survival on its head.

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5 d. ago Haunting final texts of mother who told her family she was going on holiday... only to secretly die in a Swiss euthanasia clinic: Friend reveals anguish that drove woman to take her own life

Maureen Slough, 58, of County Cavan, Ireland, sent a string of haunting final messages from inside the controversial Pegasos facility in Basel where she had quietly paid £13,000 to end her life.

Society

5 d. ago I’m a nutrition expert. Here’s the truth about children and nuts

The diet industry has convinced parents that all fats are bad, but that’s not the case

Politics

6 d. ago Woman desperate to fund skin removal surgery after losing 39 stone

Danni Pryor, 37, now weighs 10st 8lbs - but needs skin removal surgery

Politics

6 d. ago 'I stop breathing 47 times an hour when I sleep – there are millions who might be just like me'

Health reporter Helena Vesty was granted special access to see a procedure just being brought to the UK – as Manchester hospitals are among the first in the country to carry out the operation that could change thousands of lives

Politics

6 d. ago 'I was helples and thought I was going to die – but Siri saved my life'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Emma-Louise Kelly, 34, was brutally attacked by her then-boyfriend Lee Thomas, 45, at her home in Chorley, Lancashire, on January 11 this year after they returned from dinner together

Events

6 d. ago Girl, 6, who 'died fighting' described as a 'beautiful soul'

Octavia Cook's mum, Elysee, said her 'brave' daughter knew instinctively when somebody needed a hug

Events

7 d. ago I used to judge my mother’s gambling addiction. Now I think she was longing for a fairytale ending

Toni Jordan’s mother gambled fast, ferociously, without any sense of fun. The author has come to realise she was dreaming of a bigger life My mother, Margaret, died in 2018 at 75. It was a good death, all things considered. The very end was savage, as endings often are, but she was in her own home and on her own two feet until the final week. For a woman who’d smoked two packs a day all her adult life, who’d never exercised or even walked to the shops, who refused to drink water (“I’d spew!”) and lived on Coca-Cola, paté on toast, jubes and green olives from a jar – considering all that, she did OK.During my mother’s final days, I had it easy. My sister, Lee, lived closer and is, to be honest, a more nurturing person. She’s caring. Patient. Lee is also better with money than me, but I thought I should at least attempt to help – so at the end, I took charge of Mum’s bank accounts. She lived on the pension and died with a run-down brick veneer villa unit in an over-50s complex, an old...

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7 d. ago Teenage girl, 17, who died at music festival was 'feisty, loving and full of life', sister tells mourners at emotional funeral

Mourners at the funeral of Mia Keevan, 17, heard a plea for young people to think about the choices they make and to look out for each other.

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8 d. ago Scientists begin to pinpoint what’s in food besides fats, carbs and protein

We consume the chemicals in food every day, but we have little idea what they do

Science

9 d. ago Killer branded 'madman' jailed for life as victim dies after tree branch attack

Anthony Ellis was 23 in 2012 when he battered Igor Pavlov with a tree branch in a park whilst in a rage - his victim died from his injuries more than 10 years later

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