18 h. ago French artist hits out at ‘hypocrisy’ after nude mural painted over near Bangkok red light district

Myrtille Tibayrenc tells Shahana Yasmin her design was approved and unveiled at an event with the French ambassador – but later altered without her knowledge

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27 h. ago ‘A perfect coincidence’: rare red lightning captured in New Zealand skies

Photographers capture extremely unusual phenomenon – also known as red sprites – against backdrop of the Milky WayA trio of photographers in New Zealand have captured images of “red sprites”, or red lightning, one of the rarest light phenomena in the world, in which luminous crimson flashes appear in the sky.New Zealand photographer Tom Rae and Spanish photographers Dan Zafra and José Cantabrana set out to shoot the Milky Way over the Ōmārama Clay cliffs in the South Island on 11 October, when they chanced upon the extraordinary event. Continue reading...

Politics

35 h. ago ‘I don’t know anyone who is voting Labour’: How Reform is turning a red heartland light blue

This south Wales constituency has been deemed a safe Labour seat for over a century, but voters on streets of Caerphilly tell Holly Evans they are fed up – and think Nigel Farage’s Reform might be the answer

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60 h. ago Sydney Sweeney, Jennifer Lawrence light up the BFI London Film Festival red carpet

Sydney Sweeney, Jennifer Lawrence light up the BFI London Film Festival red carpet  USA Today

Culture

5 d. ago The two Cardiff streets so notorious they were literally erased from the map

These parts of the capital were once full of brothels, pubs, and shady characters

Politics

9 d. ago Woman stops at red traffic light is gobsmacked after seeing who's next to her

Stopping at a red light can be quite time-consuming but it might get all that little bit exciting when you spot a familiar face waiting right next to you like one woman recently did

Politics

2 w. ago Shocking moment speeding driver flies through red light and ploughs into car

Dashcam footage shows Darren Marshall, 48, come off the M40 to Handy Cross roundabout near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

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2 w. ago New London considers speed and red light cameras amid mixed reactions

New London considers speed and red light cameras amid mixed reactions  WFSB

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2 w. ago Woman stops at red light and can't believe who's in the car next to her

A woman was waiting at a red light when she turned to her left and spotted a world famous celebrity driving the car next to her - and the celeb soon spotted her gawping

Politics

2 w. ago ‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe

Incursions have so far caused few physical effects but experts say such incidents can leave people feeling more vulnerableThe troubling question on the mind of many who have spotted them above is: why? Vegard Rabban had little doubt about what he was seeing when a strange red light appeared between his house and garage on Norway’s west coast one cold Friday night in late September.The father-of-three, a salmon fisher and firefighter, had just driven his teenage son home from football practice when they were stopped in their tracks by something above in the clear Norwegian sky. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Couple offering romps for £280 per hour on their 'red light' narrowboat

The couple, called Katie and James, have ruffled feathers in the narrowboat community as a result of their sex for sale adverts which turn our canals into a red light district

Economics

2 w. ago Michelle Mone hits out at Tory hypocrisy as she says she won’t return as Conservative peer

High Court ruled PPE Medpro provided government with 25 million faulty surgical gowns during pandemic

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3 w. ago Northern Lights red alert as Scots skies to light up tonight and how to catch it

We could see a display of Aurora Borealis this evening.

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3 w. ago Man Utd receive Oliver Glasner 'green light' as Ruben Amorim pressure grows

Ruben Amorim's future remains uncertain amid the Red Devils' ongoing struggles, but there may be light at the end of the tunnel with a top-class manager already 'told' to replace the under-fire boss

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3 w. ago Gary Neville 'caught holding his phone while driving for a FOURTH time' in his £170,000 Bentley

The ex-Manchester United and England star was seen by passersby visibly holding his mobile whilst stopped at a red light in his 180mph 2024 Bentley Bentayga S V8 Auto V8.

Economics

4 w. ago Top Scots cop GUILTY of driving through red light and flipping pensioners’ car

A TOP cop who drove through a red light, crashing into two pensioners and flipping their car in a road smash has been banned from driving. Det Supt Derek Cree was in his black BMW in Kilmarnock when he ploughed into the side of pensioners’ John and Yvonne Shearer’s car causing it to flip and...

Transport

4 w. ago A Navajo man cries out for water on a pinnacle in Utah: Elliot Ross’s best photograph

‘This is me shouting into the wind for change,’ said Tim, who lives in Navajo Nation, where a third of residents have no running water. ‘But it falls on closed ears’Tim is one of the people I have been following for the last couple of years on a project investigating a water supply divided along racial lines in the US south-west. He is Diné, which is what the Navajo call themselves; it means “the people” in the Navajo language. He had often told me about this pinnacle, a short walk from his family’s house, where he likes to sit, taking in the light playing across the red exposed bones of the earth.In Navajo Nation – the largest Indigenous Native American reservation in the US – a third of residents live without running water. Meanwhile, up until recently, Washington County in Utah – an Anglo community just 80 miles away – consumed the most water per person per day in the US, at 300 gallons, and paid the least for it. In Navajo Nation water use is about five to 10 gallons per person ...

Culture

last month How switching your old lightbulbs for new LED lights increases your risk of diabetes, obesity and even dementia

It sounds almost too good to be true, but researchers think that shining red light at patients could be a way to treat everything from sight loss and type 2 diabetes to paralysis and even dementia.

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