10 h. ago Teenage girls making TikToks: Philippa James’s best photograph

‘My daughter and her friends are part of the smartphone generation. The more time I spent with them, the more I learned about the darker side of their mobiles’This started as a project with my daughter and her friends, who are all part of the smartphone generation. They were 14 years old at the time and I wanted to learn more about the relationship they had with their mobile phones. In 2022, a study by Ofcom showed that nine out of 10 children owned one by the time they reached the age of 11, and that 91% of them used video platforms, messaging apps and social media by the age of 12. I spoke to my daughter and her friends about how they use their phones and the negative reputation that surrounds teenagers and their screens. They told me the positives as well as the negatives, such as how social media can raise confidence as well as knock it down.I asked if I could photograph them. There was very little direction from me and – rather than photographing them in a controlled portraitur...

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28 h. ago Russian bus passengers ordered to rush to bomb shelters over 'imminent nuclear strike'

A video going viral on Russian social media shows a woman passenger as she heard the warning today on the intercom of bus 191 to Grachevskaya station in the Russian capital

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3 d. ago Viral video shows Oasis fans packing Edinburgh train station as they tried to get home

A video has gone viral on social media after showing a sea of people inside Haymarket Station.

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5 d. ago Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote and should “submit” to their husbands

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5 d. ago Alarm in China that efforts to control Chikungunya virus are infringing on rights

Many say control measure for mosquito-borne disease hark back to the zero-Covid era, in which people’s daily lives were strictly monitoredThere is growing alarm in China that official efforts to control the spread of Chikungunya virus, a non-fatal mosquito-borne disease that has been spreading in the south of the country, are infringing on people’s personal rights.A single mother living in Zhanjiang, a port city in Guangdong province, posted a video on social media this week showing a group of people, including a uniformed police officer, entering her children’s bedroom in the middle of the night and taking blood samples from the boy and the girl, without their mother’s presence or consent. The mother had been working a night shift so was not at home. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘Commodifying themselves’: the ordinary people posting Instagram sponcon to profit off friends

Users can make thousands a year by sharing links to their favorite items online – and they only need about 1,000 followers to qualifyShelbi Howell, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom, lives in a small town outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. She is not, in any traditional sense, an influencer. Like millions of other women around the world, she posts her daily outfits to TikTok, where she has a frankly paltry 1,624 followers, and Instagram, where she has 1,251. Yet despite being in every sense an ordinary woman on the internet, Howell estimates that she has made more than $500 just from posting to social media.She does this by posting a video of her outfit or her makeup and reminding viewers – many of whom are people she knows personally – that they can buy the same item via a link in her bio. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Investigation after Orthodox Jewish children sprayed with water from passing car

The video has been circulating widely on social media

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7 d. ago Superman star Dean Cain says he joined ICE ‘to help save America’

One-time Man of Steel encourages social media followers to join up in video promising ‘great benefits’ and a $50,000 signing-on bonus but is accused of betraying his most celebrated character’s values

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7 d. ago GMB star looks totally different from ITV show in fishnets and hotpants with famous husband

Good Morning Britain star Katy Rickitt has taken to social media to share a cheeky video of her dancing in a school uniform-inspired outfit with her famous husband

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7 d. ago Bittersweet last post of lifelong Oasis fan hours before plunging to his death at Wembley gig

Lee Claydon plummeted from the upper tier balcony of the stadium in north London in front of 100,000 people on Saturday. The father-of-one, from Bournemouth, died at the scene.

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8 d. ago Fans go wild as KFC hints at huge collaboration with another popular high street chain

The popular bakery chain posted a video on social media of one of its iconic sausage rolls being held up in front of a KFC restaurant sign.

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9 d. ago Man, 42, arrested at Luton Airport over alleged assault at St Pancras station

Video shared on social media last week appeared to show activist Tommy Robinson pacing around the station as a person lay still on the floor.

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9 d. ago Russian influencers pose for social media video in front of burning oil depot hit by Ukraine strike... and are made to pay the price by Putin's officials

Two Russian young women and a man were ordered to make a humbling public apology for a video posing with a burning oil depot after a major Ukrainian oil strike

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1 week ago London mayor addresses city council, community in social media video: ‘This is not a time to be divided’

London mayor addresses city council, community in social media video: ‘This is not a time to be divided’  FOX 56 News

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1 week ago Horrifying moment shirtless man shatters London Underground tube window after breakdown

Social media was divided after a viral video showed the moment a man kicked down the window of a tube carriage after he and other passengers were allegedly at a stop

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3 w. ago Pakistan authorities arrest 11 suspects over ‘honour’ killing video

Arrests come after video showing man and woman being fatally shot went vitalPakistan has arrested 11 suspects after a video emerged on social media of a woman and a man being shot dead for marrying against the wishes of their families, in an “honour” killing, authorities said.The couple, who were not identified, were shot dead on the orders of a local tribal council last month in Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province, according to provincial authorities, who investigated after the video went viral. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Harper Beckham follows in mum Victoria's footsteps after Brooklyn's olive branch amid family feud

Harper Beckham is a mini Victoria in the making as she appeared in a rare social media video showcasing her mum's beauty products

Society

3 w. ago Scuffle breaks out after cast member raises Palestinian flag on Royal Opera House stage

Video footage shared on social media showed a brief tussle between the actor who unfurled the flag and a staff member who tried to take it off him.

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3 w. ago Haunting moment Felix Baumgartner prepares paraglider for doomed flight before death

Extreme sports athlete Felix Baumgartner tragically plunged to his death during a paragliding accident in Italy. His partner has shared what he was doing before the deadly flight

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3 w. ago Witnesses describe Felix Baumgartner’s final moments as paraglider spun out of control

Beachgoers say they heard a loud boom as the paraglider spun out of control

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