27 h. ago USA golf star names the best distraction the game can offer as he lifts lid on death fears

His story is one of hope and courage amid death fears two years ago when he was hit by a terrible diagnosis

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36 h. ago Diver 'died' 300ft underwater after losing oxygen but what happened next defied science

In a miracle survival story, North Sea oil rig diver Chris Lemons clung on to life after a freak accident left him cut off from his air supply 300 feet below the surface of the sea

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58 h. ago Fears death row triple murderer's heart implant could shock him 'over and over'

Death row inmate, Byron Black is set to be executed next month for a triple murder in 1987 - but his legal team fear his heart implant will make his end a 'gruesome spectacle'

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4 d. ago 'I've nearly died seven times and there was no tunnel or bright light'

Shona Hirons has lived through cancer, a near-fatal bike accident, and was even in a two-week coma, and while she didn't have any 'out of body experiences', she no longer 'fears death'

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1 week ago Eden Blackman dead at 57: Celebs Go Dating star's devastated family announce his death after 'long illness' as Fearne Cotton, Paul C. Brunson and Zoe Ball lead heartfelt tributes

Celebs Go Dating star Eden Blackman has died at the age of 57 on Saturday, following a 'long illness'.

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2 w. ago ‘Full of delightful surprises’: why Spy is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers recommending their go-to comfort watches is an ode to Paul Feig’s 2015 comedy starring a never-better Melissa McCarthyIt has a plot and a cast that seem cooked up during a hallucinatory fever dream. It shouldn’t work, but it does – and so splendidly, too. In Paul Feig’s comedy Spy, Melissa McCarthy plays Susan Cooper, a timid CIA desk agent who gets sent out into the field by her fearsome boss (Alison Janney) after the death of her slick Bond-like colleague, Bradley Fine (Jude Law, in a rare comedic turn). The cast is full of delightful surprises. Rose Bryne is a stiletto-clad Oxford-educated villainess with quips so brutal that she makes Regina George look like Barney. Peter Serafinowicz does a game turn as an – admittedly very pre-#MeToo – cringey Italian pervert figure named Aldo (“like the shoe store found in American malls”).And in the film’s most magnificent twist, Jason Statham parodies the hard-as-nails action leads he’s played over the ye...

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3 w. ago ‘There’s a smell of death in the air’: chaos in Tehran as residents try to flee or find shelter

Ferocity of Israeli strikes has taken many by surprise, with people rushing to buy petrol and food amid the bombs Middle East crisis – live updatesIt was just past 4pm when Nahid’s* windows began to shake. An Israeli bomb hit a building nearby – she could not see where – and soon her house began to fill up with smoke. It was the third day of Israeli bombing of Iran and the situation in Tehran was just getting worse.“This is a massacre. The blasts haven’t stopped. Children are crying and we fear many civilians have been killed. There’s a smell of death in the air. I can’t stop crying,” Nahid*, a 25-year-old finance analyst at an e-commerce company in Tehran, told the Guardian via text. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Loved ones hail Britons feared dead in Air India plane crash as airline confirms death toll

There were 53 Britons on the flight when it went down.

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3 w. ago Diver's body found 300ft underwater in dangerous quarry as death feared 'unnatural'

An inquest heard how North Wales Police received a call with a report that a diver had died at the quarry - the body of Tim James Waples was found nearly 300ft (85 metres) underwater

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3 w. ago Body of diver discovered nearly 85 metres underwater at disused quarry

A inquest has been opened into the death of 60-year-old James Waples, who was found at a site popular with divers

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4 w. ago ‘The death of creativity’? AI job fears stalk advertising industry

WPP and others roll out AI-generated campaigns as Facebook owner Meta plans to let firms create their own adsWPP chief Mark Read to step down as agency battles AIFrom using motion capture tech to allow the Indian cricketing star Rahul Dravid to give personalised coaching tips for children to an algorithm trained on Shakespeare’s handwriting powering a robotic arm to rewrite Romeo and Juliet, artificial intelligence is rapidly revolutionising the global advertising industry.Those AI-created adverts, for the Cadbury’s drink brand Bournvita and the pen maker Bic, were produced by agency group WPP, which is spending £300m annually on data, tech and machine learning to remain competitive. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Cole Cooper's family say 'worst fears have become reality' after confirming teen's death

Cole Cooper's family have spoken out for the first time after a body was discovered in Banknock on Friday afternoon.

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last month Death Clock inventor makes one big change after app predicts 'worst fear' could come true

Brent Franson created the Death Clock, which predicts when and how users will meet their end – and was horrified after it told him he could die in the worst way he could imagine

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