9 h. ago Fabled 60s folk rock band that took charts by storm outed as an AI

The Velvet Sundown boasts 1.1 million monthly Spotify listeners and took the number one spot on the app’s daily viral chart – but there's a bit of a catch with them

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58 h. ago Wimbledon legend Maria Sharapova calls out Aryna Sabalenka treatment in sexism storm

Maria Sharapova is a huge admirer of Belarusian star Aryna Sabalenka, but the Russian was not happy with an article that was written based on an interview with her

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3 d. ago How the Princess of Wales's 2022 tennis outfit is still taking SW19 by storm three years on

A particular style of dress likely inspired by Kate Middleton 's 2022 Wimbledon look is taking Centre Court by storm this year. The navy polka dot chic summer frock is enjoying resurgence

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5 d. ago Carnage breaks out at Portland ICE detention center as woke crowd tries to storm holding cells

Tear gas, flares and mass arrests rocked Portland, Oregon as protesters stormed an ICE detention center just hours after Trump signed his sweeping immigration bill into law.

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6 d. ago ‘A dark day for our country’: Democrats furious over Trump bill’s passage

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib condemns major policy bill as ‘disgusting’ as party vows to ‘mobilize and fight back’Democrats have erupted in a storm of outrage over the passage of the Donald Trump’s budget bill, delivering scathing critiques that offered signs of the attack lines the party could wield against Republicans in next year’s midterm elections.Party leaders released a wave of statements after the sweeping tax and spending bill’s passage on Thursday, revealing a fury that could peel paint off a brick outhouse. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Drink Pastis by the metre and party till dawn! The genderfluid French superclub in the heart of cowboy country

Stars, cowboys, village kids and drag queens – they all flock to La Churascaia, the bullring-like nightspot in the Camargue marshes. As it notches up 60 years of freewheeling hedonism, we celebrate an unstoppable rollercoasterHidden in a copse of pine trees, in the southern French region of Camargue near Arles, sits the legendary nightclub La Churascaia. For 60 years, nothing has stopped this nightlife institution partying till dawn – not even a power cut. When a storm knocked out the electricity one night in the mid-1970s, the French news presenter Yves Mourousi simply drove his car into the venue, and the dancing continued to the sound of its stereo.La Chu, as it’s known, opened in June 1965, making it one of the longest surviving discotheques in the world – behind Los Angeles’s Whisky-a-Go-Go, Paris’s Chez Castel and Rome’s Piper Club. It’ll be celebrating this feat of nightclub stamina on 29 June with a huge shindig at this most unlikely of venues smack-bang in the middle of the...

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2 w. ago ITV Love Island star will storm out after huge row in dramatic scenes airing tonight

Another couple is on the rocks

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2 w. ago Salvagers to remove Mike Lynch’s superyacht Bayesian from sea off Sicily

Final stage of operation will allow investigators to try to find cause of fatal sinking during stormSalvage teams in Sicily have said they aim to bring Mike Lynch’s superyacht “fully and finally out of the water” on Saturday after it sank during a storm, killing seven people including the tech tycoon and his teenage daughter.The white top and blue hull of the Bayesian, which ran into trouble off the coast of the Italian island in August last year, emerged from the sea on Friday to sit the holding area of a yellow floating crane barge. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Naomi Watts and daughter Kai Schreiber pose up a storm at Armani Beauty event after model teen came out as transgender

The King Kong actress, 56, and her model daughter, 16, who she shares with actor Liev Schreiber, were among the stars at Wednesday's event, held at Twenty Three Grand.

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3 w. ago Moment thousands of furious tourists are left stranded outside the Louvre after rogue staff storm out in flash strike blaming 'untenable' crowding in the famous Paris museum

Footage circulating on social platform X shows swarms of frustrated and confused visitors, tickets in hand, lingering outside the Parisian museum, after its staff called strikes on Monday.

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