32 m. ago 'Starting to feel like childhood friend is stealing mates and ignoring me'

Resident agony aunt Coleen Nolan has advice for a reader who wants to end things with a friend she's had for 20 years, and feels it will be more like a break-up

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36 m. ago Roy Keane says ‘something missing’ from ‘unhappy’ England after Senegal defeat

Roy Keane has questioned England’s group spirit following their shock 3-1 friendly defeat to Senegal.

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40 m. ago Pete Wicks rages after Sam Thompson tells him about cafe you 'can't eat anything' at

Pete Wickes couldn't believe what he was hearing when podcast co-host and best mate Sam Thompson told him there's a cafe you can go to where you can't eat a morsel

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52 m. ago 'Insane' sweet potato fries recipe is 'so good' that you'll never make them any other way

One food creator shared his secret to make the crispest sweet potato fries - one extra step you'll need to take to make sure they're perfect every time

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69 m. ago ‘The perfect dish for them’: Erin Patterson explains why she included dried mushrooms in fatal lunch

Triple-murder accused also denies foraging death caps hours before buying food dehydrator as trial continuesWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago 'I thought I'd overdone it on the exercise bike, but I'm dying aged 32'

Lisa, 32, thought she had overdone the exercise, now friends are raising money for her funeral

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2 h. ago Erin Patterson denies foraging death cap mushrooms hours before buying food dehydrator, murder trial hears

Murder accused also tells Victorian supreme court that she thought beef wellingtons were ‘the perfect dish’ for dried mushroomsWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom trial?Erin Patterson has denied leading health officials on a “wild goose chase”, and that she foraged death cap mushrooms two hours before buying a food dehydrator, a Victorian court has heard.Patterson, 50, faces three charges of murder and one charge of attempted murder relating to poisoning four lunch guests with beef wellington served at her house in Leongatha, Victoria, on 29 July 2023. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago The Sexual Evolution by Nathan H Lents review – colourful tales of animal reproduction

From gay penguin parents to snake orgies, a biology professor looks at sexual adaptation in the animal world In 1998, Roy and Silo, a pair of male chinstrap penguins at Central Park Zoo in New York, were given an abandoned egg to incubate after zookeepers observed them performing mating rituals together. For 34 days, they took turns sitting on it. When the egg hatched, the story became a viral sensation. The New York Times celebrated “A Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name”. Roy, Silo and their daughter Tango became the subject of a LGBTQ-friendly children’s book, And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell.Biology professor Nathan Lents remembers receiving copies of Tango as a gift when he and his husband became foster parents. Fast-forward to the present day, and Tango tops Pen America’s list of the most frequently banned picture books in the US. It was part of a high-profile lawsuit in Nassau County, Florida, and was designated for pulping by officials in...

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2 h. ago ‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire

In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species lossWould you bring an extinct species back to life if you could? If so, which species would you pick? Prof Sadiah Qureshi has taken to asking her friends, students and complete strangers this question because, she says, their answers reveal a lot about how we understand extinction.Some choose a dinosaur, others pick a species like the dodo, killed off by humans. Almost no one chooses a plant or insect. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Hide the pain: how a war reporter keeps going when their own family are victims

At least 225 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since 2023. One was the son of Wael al-Dahdouh, who also lost his wife, two other children and a grandchild. Here, he talks about regaining his sense of purpose amid the desolationPurpose was never something Wael al-Dahdouh struggled with. Even when struck by personal tragedies, the Palestinian journalist would take his place in front of Al Jazeera’s cameras to report the news from Gaza.He returned to work almost immediately after his wife, two of his children and his toddler grandson were killed by an Israeli airstrike in October 2023. He showed the same determination seven weeks later when he was himself injured, and his friend and colleague Samer Abu Daqqa killed, as they reported on the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a school. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Viktor Gyokeres expected to join Man Utd as Erling Haaland role emerges

Viktor Gyokeres is looking to head to Manchester United this summer according to singer and Coventry City fan Tom Grennan - who has remained friendly with the Sporting Lisbon star

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2 h. ago Prawns taste better when roasted with one £1.95 kitchen ingredient

Ditch the salt and elevate the taste of your prawns by adding this one simple ingredient that costs less than two pounds - and by also trying out different cooking techniques.

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3 h. ago Cumbernauld Colts boss has target date to play on new Broadwood pitch as side prepare for 'outside' friendlies

John Doyle on the Lowland League side's pre-season schedule

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4 h. ago Pulse massacre survivors are set to revisit the nightclub before it's razed

Survivors and family members of the Pulse nightclub massacre nine years ago are getting a chance to walk through the long-shuttered, gay-friendly venue this week

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5 h. ago Scotland's best restaurant is Michelin star spot with lunch menu that 'won't break the bank'

Scotland's thriving foodie culture boasts 13 Michelin star restaurants and many other eateries offering quality, reasonably priced food.

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6 h. ago Jamie Oliver's easy potato scones recipe can be whipped up in just 30 minutes

Jamie Oliver's recipe for potato scones, or tattie scones as they're known in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, is so simple to follow and makes the perfect breakfast accompaniment

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8 h. ago Fentanyl deaths are plummeting among Gen Z. But experts still don’t know what’s caused the shift

The number of drug-related deaths among people under 35 dropped almost 50 percent in recent years

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8 h. ago Bystanders jump in front of ICE vehicles with arrested migrants inside after raid on meat packing plant

Horrified locals threw themselves in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement vans which had been loaded with dozens of illegal migrants picked up in a raid on a food plant.

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9 h. ago Exclusive | China chows on US fast food at London trade talks: 'total cultural victory!'

Exclusive | China chows on US fast food at London trade talks: 'total cultural victory!'  New York Post

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10 h. ago Love Island viewers react to VERY awkward moment Shakira discusses her choice of boy with Maya Jama in recoupling: 'Why is she acting like they are friends?!'

Love Island viewers were quick to react to the very awkward moment that Shakira Khan discussed her choice of boy with Maya Jama during Tuesday night's dramatic recoupling.

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