42 h. ago Gossip Girl and Friends made me want to move to NYC — I visited to see if the city still lives up to the hype of millennial TV shows

Having spent her teenage years watching the likes of Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada, Queenie Shaikh imagined a New York of rent-controlled apartments, cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery, breakfast on the steps of the MET and rendezvous at the top of the Empire State Building – but does that Manhattan seen-on-screen still exist?

Culture

3 d. ago Man, 62, whose dismembered body was found in a suitcase paid teenager, 17, £100 for sex sessions, court hears

The bodies of Albert Alfonso, 62, and his partner Paul Longworth, 71, were found at Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol on July 10 in large suitcases.

Economics

4 d. ago British teenager jailed in Dubai for sex with fellow UK tourist is HOME after being freed following royal pardon

Marcus Fakana, now 19, from Tottenham, was 18-years-old when he was arrested for having sex with a 17-year-old girl from London while he was on holiday with his parents in the UAE city in August.

Society

6 d. ago Mystery as Simon Cowell fails to attend Mel B's wedding after gearing up for an awkward reunion with rival music manager Simon Fuller

The Spice Girl, 50, and the hair stylist, 38, said 'I do' at St Paul's Cathedral surrounded by A-list guests, including Emma Bunton , Cara Delevingne and Katherine Ryan.

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8 d. ago 'Predatory' sex beast jailed after raping teenage girl in Inverness

Cameron Huggins was caged at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday.

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8 d. ago 'I unknowingly handed my little daughter to man accused of abusing kids at daycare'

An Australian father of three is searching for answers over the care given to his children after recognising an alleged sex offender as his daughter's childcare worker

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9 d. ago Teenage boys accused of Ballymena sex assault appear before court again

The 14-year-olds are charged with the attempted rape of a girl in the Clonavon Terrace area of the town last month.

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1 week ago Monsters of California review – three friends search for one’s missing father in sci

Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge’s directorial debut is nicely shot and benefits from a good cast – but its meandering journey through UFOs and a urinating Bigfoot can be a bit bumpy Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge directs and co-writes this sci-fi slacker comedy which sees a trio of stoner wastrels hoping to investigate what happened to the father of one of their number, who mysteriously disappeared many years ago and is presumed dead. It’s a slightly frustrating experience, because the film has got loads going for it but could be just that little bit better. So many of the ingredients are right: it’s nicely shot and directed, and the casting feels on point – it’s not so much that you buy these evidently non-teenage actors as teenagers, but that their presence is part of a noble tradition of adults playing teens in films. It’s as cosily familiar to anyone who came of age in the 1990s as baggy skate trousers and a band hoodie.This sense of cultural time capsule extends to the characters themselves: ...

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1 week ago Monsters of California review – three friends search for a missing father in Tom DeLonge’s sci

Blink 182’s DeLonge’s directorial debut is nicely shot and benefits from a good cast – but its meandering journey through UFOs and a urinating Bigfoot can be a bit bumpyBlink-182’s Tom DeLonge directs and co-writes this sci-fi slacker comedy which sees a trio of stoner wastrels hoping to investigate what happened to the father of one of their number, who mysteriously disappeared many years ago and is presumed dead. It’s a slightly frustrating experience, because the film has got loads going for it but could be just that little bit better. So many of the ingredients are right: it’s nicely shot and directed, and the casting feels on point – it’s not so much that you buy these evidently non-teenage actors as teenagers, but that their presence is part of a noble tradition of adults playing teens in films. It’s as cosily familiar to anyone who came of age in the 1990s as baggy skate trousers and a band hoodie.This sense of cultural time capsule extends to the characters themselves: they ...

Events

1 week ago Girl, 10, 'was lured to allotments by teenage boys and forced to take her clothes off while they kissed her': Police launch hunt for 'sex attack trio'

Police are now hunting for the trio who are said to have launched the attack at around 5pm on Sunday, June 15, at the allotments near Selby Canal, Yorkshire.

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1 week ago ‘Unless you see it, you can’t believe how bad it is’: the peer demanding a minister for porn

We’ve got into a mess with extreme content because nobody wants to talk about pornography, says Gabby BertinWhen the Conservative peer Gabby Bertin arrived for a meeting with the the science and technology secretary, Peter Kyle, earlier this year she startled him by laying out an array of pornographic images across his desk.“They were screengrabs showing little girls, their hair in bunches, and massive, grown men grabbing little girls’ throats,” she says. She had selected images which appeared to depict child abuse, and yet were easily and legally available on a popular website. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Horror as teenager pregnant with her rapist's baby is shot dead by her fiance in 'honour killing' after he found out about the sex attack in Turkey

Oya Budak, 18, was five-and-a-half months pregnant when she was shot dead in the apparent honour killing, Turkish news agencies said.

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2 w. ago Pervert who groomed teenage girl then filmed sex attack in van escapes jail

Callum Hesketh froomed the girl online before bringing her to a van where she was raped by himself and Michael Linfoot and orally raped by Thomas Rae.

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2 w. ago I was diagnosed with PCOS – and was soon drowning in misinformation

From medically unqualified influencers pushing expensive supplements online, to nurses peddling myths about pregnancy, I had to find out all I could about my condition myself. This is what I’ve learnedI suspected I had polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) long before it was confirmed. The signs were there: the acne scars that littered my back, the irregular periods, the hair in places on my body that I didn’t see on many of my friends. I suspected it from the moment that one of my best friends, who as a girl taught me about bleaching my body hair and waxing my legs, was diagnosed with it as a teenager.Admitting all this publicly feels like an unburdening, but also an invitation to more shame. But I write this because my experience is far from unique. As many as one in 10 women have PCOS, a condition associated with hormonal disturbances that can range from weight gain, “unwanted” body hair and hair loss, to irregular periods and struggles to conceive children (including an increased ris...

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3 w. ago Israel, we’re begging you: please let aid organisations do our jobs in Gaza | James Elder

Four hundred distribution points have dwindled to four under this private and militarised ‘aid’ system. This is not how to avert a famineJames Elder is Unicef’s global spokespersonAbed Al Rahman, just a boy, carried the weight of his family’s hunger as he stepped into the streets of Gaza in search of bread. He had his father’s money, but when he saw the tide of people pushing towards a food distribution site in Rafah, hunger pulled him into their flow.Almost immediately, the site descended into chaos. Gunfire. Drones. Then in a flash, shrapnel from a tank shell ripped through his little body. When I met him at a hospital in Khan Younis – where painkillers, like food, are scarce – the 13-year-old was in agony. “I have shrapnel inside my body that they couldn’t remove,” he told me. “I am in real pain; since 6am I have been asking for a painkiller.” As he recounted the chaos, his father’s composure shattered, and tears rolled down his face. Was he going to lose his son simply because A...

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3 w. ago Israel, please let aid organisations do our jobs in Gaza | James Elder

Four hundred distribution points have dwindled to four under this private and militarised ‘aid’ system. This is not how to avert a famineJames Elder is Unicef’s global spokespersonAbed Al Rahman, just a boy, carried the weight of his family’s hunger as he stepped into the streets of Gaza in search of bread. He had his father’s money, but when he saw the tide of people pushing towards a food distribution site in Rafah, hunger pulled him into their flow.Almost immediately, the site descended into chaos. Gunfire. Drones. Then in a flash, shrapnel from a tank shell ripped through his little body. When I met him at a hospital in Khan Younis – where painkillers, like food, are scarce – the 13-year-old was in agony. “I have shrapnel inside my body that they couldn’t remove,” he told me. “I am in real pain; since 6am I have been asking for a painkiller.” As he recounted the chaos, his father’s composure shattered, and tears rolled down his face. Was he going to lose his son simply because A...

Politics

3 w. ago Deputy headteacher, 51, who had sex with schoolgirl is married to former student and has children with her, court hears

John Harvey, 51, who was an English teacher and safeguarding lead at Penryn College in Cornwall, allegedly had sex with the teenager in his car and at her home while her father was away.

Society

3 w. ago ‘He just told me lies to have sex with a teenage girl’: Natalie Fleet MP on grooming, statutory rape and fighting back

At 15, she began seeing an older man and conceived her beloved daughter. It was years before she properly understood it as abuse. Now she is working tirelessly in parliament for other survivorsNatalie Fleet is nervous about this interview. Her assistant has warned me and Fleet tells me several times, before and during. “I just feel sick,” she says. “I don’t know if it’s because it’s about me or because of the subject. It just doesn’t seem to get any easier.”The subject is rape – specifically Fleet’s experience of being groomed by an older man when she was 15, becoming pregnant and having the baby. That daughter, “the love of her life”, is now 24. Since entering parliament last summer as the Labour MP for Bolsover, Fleet has spoken a good deal about rape, her life story and the lack of support for mothers whose children were conceived this way – and each time it upsets her. “My husband said: ‘I don’t want you to be the “rapey MP”,’ and I don’t want that either,” says Fleet. “But it’s...

Events

3 w. ago Hunt for Russian 'spy' who escaped moving ‘sealed train’ in NATO state Lithuania

The 'spy', known only as 21-year-old Daniil M, jumped off a high-security train while in transit from his home nation in search for what his father said was a 'better life'

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3 w. ago From the drunk girl who knocked her own front teeth out to the father searching the garden bushes with a torch for couples having sex... One teenage girl's hair

As the youngest of four children, and the last teenager still living at home, I know for a fact there is an annual event my mum dreads more than anything else... the 'End of GCSEs House Party'.

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