10 h. ago Family of two women stranded in Sri Lanka ‘hugely relieved’ after rescue

Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, from London, were stranded by floods in Pussellawa for nearly a week

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43 h. ago Women behind the lens: ‘They waited in a kind of deranged inactivity for the possibility of a visit’

In her portraits from an overcrowded Venezuelan detention centre, Ana María Arévalo Gosen captures the frustration of women desperate for news from their lawyers and familiesThis photograph was taken inside the Poli-Valencia detention centre, where I began to understand what imprisonment means for women in Venezuela. The room had once been an investigation office, converted into a cell after authorities decided to move the women out of the main area, where they had been held alongside male detainees.When I returned a year later, the space had been transformed. The women had made it their own, covering the walls with names, phrases and small drawings of hearts, even taping up a poster of the Colombian singer Maluma. What had once been a sterile office now held traces of their presence, their effort to hold on to a sense of identity in a place meant to erase it. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lankan mountains running out of food and water, daughter says

Friends Melanie Watters and Janine Reid have been trapped in Pussellawa since ThursdayTwo British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lanka’s tea mountains are running out of food and water, the daughter of one of them has said, as officials reported that the death toll of Cyclone Ditwah has reached 465.Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, both from London, were being driven through the mountains from Kandy in central Sri Lanka on Thursday when the road in front of them was swamped, sending a bus nearby over a cliff-edge. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Loose Women star Nadia Sawalha 'new addition' after family 'really suffered' tragic loss

The ITV star was assured by Christine Lampard that her family's decision was normal

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4 d. ago Loose Women's Katie Piper's festive chaos starts in November 'I make a list on WhatsApp'

EXCLUSIVE: As she becomes the face of Oxfam's 2025 Christmas campaign, Loose Women presenter Katie Piper opens up about family traditions and teaching her daughters about privilege

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6 d. ago Death toll reaches 69 as Sri Lanka is hit by rising flood waters

Heavy rain from Cyclone Ditwah has left people stranded, with more than 18,000 evacuated to temporary sheltersTroops in Sri Lanka were racing to rescue hundreds of people marooned by rising flood waters on Friday as weather-related deaths rose to 69, with another 34 people declared missing.Helicopters and navy boats carried out rescue operations, plucking people from treetops, roofs and villages cut off by flood waters. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Last chance to get £27 DNA kits in Black Friday sale as two women uncover life

A final Black Friday deal on £27 DNA kits is helping people unlock family secrets, as two women’s extraordinary reunion shows.

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7 d. ago 'Really lonely' Coleen Nolan shares heartbreaking Christmas confession as she reflects on big changes in her family on Loose Women

The 60-year-old returned to the panel on the latest instalment of the ITV show alongside Charlene White, 45, Brenda Edwards, 56, and Gloria Huniford, 85.

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2 w. ago Loose Women star Ruth Langsford reveals 'hard lesson' learned from heartbreaking family loss

The ITV presenter provided a candid insight into her life on the panel show

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2 w. ago Mosque that blocked women over 12 from taking part in charity run forced to lift 'regressive' ban

The 5km event held in East London last month was billed as 'inclusive' and 'family-friendly' but organisers insisted that female teenagers and women were forbidden from joining in

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3 w. ago Loose Women's Charlene White breaks down as she returns home after family heartbreak

ITV's Loose Women presenter Charlene White has opened up about feeling overwhelmed over the support she has received following the tragic death of her dad

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3 w. ago Loose Women’s Charlene White ‘burst into tears’ as she returned home after tragic loss

Loose Women's Charlene White broke the news of her family member's tragic death during a post on Instagram last month, admitting "two weeks ago our lives changed forever"

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