50 h. ago Why we’ve all fallen for The Summer I Turned Pretty: ‘Endless, wonderful melodrama’

The third season of the Amazon teen drama has become a certified phenomenon, encouraging watch parties and intense fan reactionsIt’s after work on a Wednesday night, and I’m at a sports bar in downtown Manhattan. It looks exactly like what you’d expect of a bar in the Financial District. Men in button-up shirts stand around a tall table with folded arms, ranting about the current season as multiple baseball games are playing on TV screens all around the bar.I feel out of place as I wait for a friend, but I know it’s only a matter of time until things change. A stream of women slowly trickles in, group by group. The mood abruptly changes when the TV screens flicker on to a clip of sparkling water. The bar cranks up the volume, a wistful three notes plays over the speaker, the brief theme song of what has become a show so popular that sports bars in Manhattan are throwing watch parties for women who, like me, are years older than the show’s protagonist. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Sabrina Carpenter hints ex Barry Keoghan dumped her as she shares telling lyrics

Sabrina Carpenter’s new album Man’s Best Friend has fans speculating it is all about her split with Barry Keoghan, with raw lyrics hinting he may have walked away

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3 d. ago Sabrina Carpenter: Man’s Best Friend review – smut and stunning craft from pop’s best in show

(Island Records) The controversy-courting star is in perfect alignment with producer Jack Antonoff, on detailed and utterly delightful tracks that make her previous hit album seem rudimentary in comparisonIn June, Sabrina Carpenter announced her seventh album, Man’s Best Friend; its artwork depicts Carpenter on her hands and knees, an unseen man grasping a handful of her hair. It instantly caused an uproar online – most notably among Carpenter’s young fans, who weren’t on Tumblr in 2015, or weren’t aware of the way the Sun newspaper wrote about Madonna every day of the 1990s and 2000s, and therefore didn’t realise that discourse around whether pop stars should or shouldn’t be allowed to sexualise themselves is older than pop music itself, and almost always inane.Anyone hitting play on Man’s Best Friend in search of another barrel-full of ragebait might be alarmed, not because it is particularly provocative, but because it is strangely old-fashioned. Carpenter is fond of blue turns o...

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6 d. ago El Chapo's cartel friend will 'die behind bars' after admitting guilt over murders and smuggling

The 77-year-old crime lord and cartel boss, who was an associate of El Chapo, will die behind bars but avoided the death sentence by pleading guilty to crimes including drug smuggllng and murder

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7 d. ago Mexican drug lord ‘El Mayo’ pleads guilty to racketeering in New York

Ismael Zambada was co-founder of Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, now imprisoned in USThe Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel, pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges as well as running a criminal enterprise on Monday, more than a year since he was arrested in Texas after what has been described as a kidnapping.“I recognize the great harm illegal drugs have done to the people in the United States and Mexico,” the 77-year-old Zambada said in court through a Spanish-language interpreter. “I apologize for all of it, and I take responsibility for my actions.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ruth Langsford says 'it's always on my mind' in heartbreaking family admission

ITV Loose Women presenter Ruth Langsford has candidly admitted she is often wracked with guilt if she ever forgets her duties to a beloved family member

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2 w. ago Amid the chaos after the fall of Kabul, two men became my lifeline | Shadi Khan Saif

Exactly four years later, our reunion in the safety of my new home in Melbourne was sweetSitting cross-legged on a richly patterned Afghan rug in a Melbourne living room, we chatted for hours, reflecting on the fall of Kabul four years ago that brought us together and nurtured a bond of friendship across continents.We had first connected in the chaos of August 2021, when the fall of Kabul shattered decades of fragile progress towards democracy, freedom and peace in Afghanistan. Our reunion this winter in Melbourne should have been pure joy – a celebration of survival and friendship – but it began in the quiet rows of a Muslim graveyard. We were there for the funeral of our mutual friend, Barez. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Phillip Schofield kisses male friend after stumbling out of boozy lunch at bar

Former ITV This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield was seen leaning on a male companion as they left a bar together after enjoying a boozy lunch in central London

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3 w. ago Phillip Schofield clings onto male companion as he leaves bar after failed TV comeback

Phillip Schofield appeared to need a shoulder to lean on after he was photographed leaving a bar in Central London with a male friend and vape in hand

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3 w. ago Nicola Sturgeon opens up on suffering miscarriage and reveals 'I always felt it was a girl'

The former first minister admitted she still carried a "sense of guilt" following her miscarriage as she felt "conflicted about the pregnancy".

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3 w. ago Are you a victim of friend poaching? You might not even know it yet

First they’re your new best friend — next they’re hanging out with everyone in your group bar you. Olivia Petter speaks to victims of the worrying social phenomenon, and asks the experts what’s behind it

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3 w. ago Man, 26, murdered lover, 73, and buried him in bathtub full of concrete

A man has been sentenced to life in prison after murdering his lover and burying him in a bathtub full of concrete. Juan Baron, 26, killed Gary Ruby, 73, some time between January 19, 2022, and March 7, 2022. This week, he pleaded guilty to killing Ruby after he had revealed an HIV-positive diagnosis.In the arrest warrant brutal details were revealed of how Baron conducted the crime, including how the killer used a belt to murder Ruby before dragging him into a bathtub in an attempt to frame it as a suicide. He later confessed to officers that, after finding bags of concrete in his garage, he covered the 73-year-old's body in the bathtub. Then, he explained that he covered the concrete with coffee grounds to mask the smell of the corpse. After the murder, Baron fled Hawaii with a friend, before being arrested in California. He was found inside a bus on its way to Mexico, hiding in a crawl space. The timeline of events still remains unclear, but according to the police, Baron lived i...

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4 w. ago Friend of baby killer Lucy Letby admits 'I feel so much guilt'

Despite being convicted acrosss two trials of murdering seven babies, Lucy Letby's childhood pal is convinced of her innocence, and she opened up about the 'guilt' she feels

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