70 m. ago From orange peels to bottle caps: Thousands of artists create their own 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'

When the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague loaned its most famous work for an exhibition in 2023, it needed to find something to fill the empty space left by Johannes Vermeer’s iconic “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”

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42 h. ago Girl, 13, hospitalised after 'four schoolmates left her unrecognisable' in horror attack

'It's every parent's worst nightmare'

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4 d. ago Girl, 3, left with 'skin falling off' after traumatic hotel incident while brushing her teeth

The horrific incident saw Nancy, now five, taken to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital suffering from extreme burns

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1 week ago Jodie Marsh, 46, talks about changing her life after revealing she's 'fat but happier than ever'

The former Page Three girl, 46, lives a quieter life these days, having largely left the world of showbiz behind in favour of running an animal sanctuary in Great Dunmow, Essex.

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1 week ago ‘Healthy’ girl left ‘locked inside her body’ by incurable condition

Lucy Glenn was learning to walk and talk as normal when her behaviour suddenly changed

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1 week ago Mother hits out at 'poison' slushies and calls for ban after girl left unconscious

Kim Moore claimed her daughter Marnie became pale and unresponsive around ten minutes after having the drink

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1 week ago Girl, 7, in coma with horror burns as TikTok challenge ends in microwave explosion

One girl was left with life-altering injuries after she participated in an online TikTok trend involving a microwave and a squishy toy which is used as a fidget device

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3 w. ago Little girl, 5, left temporarily paralysed after mum spots odd sympton after flu

Aurora Burden-Schott, five, was left temporarily paralysed after her mum noticed an unusual flu symptom - muscle aches. The young girl's body was left without movement

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3 w. ago Little girl, 5, left 'paralysed' after mum spots unusual sign of flu

Aurora Burden-Schott, five, was left 'paralysed' after her mum, Kota, noticed the little girl was tiptoeing and had leg pain following a bout of flu - prompting a hospital visit

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3 w. ago Camping horror as teen boy, 14, 'repeatedly stabbed' girl, 13, with 'fearsome' sword

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT The 13-year-old girl was left with 'dreadful' injuries after she was stabbed 10 times with a 'fearsome' sword during a camping trip near a wooded area

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4 w. ago ‘Trump doesn’t understand who the aggressor is’: fatigue and anger in Odesa

Russian attacks on Ukrainian city that was initially spared worst have increased since Washington-Moscow detenteRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesOlena Palash heard a loud buzzing above her flat in the Ukrainian port of Odesa. It was 11pm. First one drone, and another, then more. Soon afterwards, one of the Shaheeds crashed into the children’s clinic where she works. An explosion shredded the building’s facade. The metal covering of a car park was remade into a spaghetti-like jumble. Another drone smashed into a nearby kindergarten.The attack on 18 February knocked out a substation and plunged some of the city into darkness. Four people were injured, including a 10-year-old girl, and 80,000 were left without heat. Russia’s air war in the skies above Ukraine is nothing new. But since negotiations began between the US and Russia – talks from which Kyiv has been excluded – the raids have got dramatically worse. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Rave, games and showers of Coco Pops: a night out at Liverpool’s Bongo’s Bingo

The city’s madcap mix of bingo, dressing up and dancing has become a cultural phenomenon, bucking the trend of a declining UK club scene and packing venues nationwide. Ahead of the night’s 10th anniversary, our writer gives it a goIn Liverpool, in a vast warehouse lined with bierkeller trestle tables, each one sardine-packed with people, a woman is dancing. She is dancing on her seat to Europe’s The Final Countdown. With her arms in the air, she is bellowing out the words and, indeed, the synth riff. It is 8pm. The woman is me.Around me, everyone is doing exactly the same. To my right, a woman in full chicken costume is flapping her wings. To the left, a beautiful dark-haired girl, with the look of an Italian Dolce & Gabbana model at her rich husband’s funeral, is up with her crew, screeching, waving a glass of something sticky and deadly. I look around. I can’t see anybody – not a single person in the room – who isn’t singing along and dancing on the benches. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Lady Victoria Hervey mugged for her mobile after moving back to UK from LA

Former 'It girl' and socialite Lady Hervey was left "deeply shaken" after she had her mobile phone stolen by a thief on an electric bike in Pimlico, London, on Thursday evening

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