91 m. ago Man, 33, given months to live following devastating diagnosis

Stephen Lea, 33, started experiencing back pain last year - a devastating diagnosis means he may only have months left to live

Politics

2 h. ago BMW worker was fired after bosses authorised secret filming over back pain

Mohamed Kerita, who worked in the firm’s manufacturing factory, suffered with back pain from 2017, the tribunal in Reading heard

Culture

2 h. ago Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness review – Johnny Depp’s Modigliani as bohemian badass

A lineup including Stephen Graham and Al Pacino seem wasted on this lavish, but hackneyed drama about the Italian artist Some very cliched roistering, life-affirming wine-drinking, bourgeois-defying artistic shenanigans here from the veteran screenwriting couple Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski who have adapted a 1980 stage play, Modigliani by Dennis McIntyre, about the Italian sculptor and painter Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi. Johnny Depp directs and perhaps sees his subject as a bohemian badass not unlike Hunter S Thompson, whom he played in Terry Gilliam’s 1998 movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – and perhaps not altogether unlike how he sees himself.It is 1916 in Paris and the brutality of war is destroying the belle époque; Riccardo Scamarcio plays Modigliani, a brilliant, sensual but penniless artist facing poverty and casual antisemitism. Having got into a chaotic affray at a pompous posh restaurant – filmed like a deleted scene from Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeer...

Politics

4 h. ago ‘You are living with a difficult person who is waiting to die’: my harrowing time as Patricia Highsmith’s assistant

I worked for the author of The Talented Mr Ripley in her final months. She was so mean and secretive, I imagined she wanted to kill meI first read Patricia Highsmith’s novels in the autumn of 1994. I was 20 and living in a room in her house in Tegna, Switzerland, that was plastered with bookshelves full of her first editions, organised in chronological order. Pat was 73 and knew she was about to die; she had been, it was rumoured, diagnosed with cancer or some other terminal disease. I was trapped in her world with her, trembling. She had weeks left to live and had spent so much time writing about how to get away with murder. I fantasised that she might try to kill me.The story of how I ended up in that house begins a few months earlier, in Zurich, with me on a blue tram, on my way to dinner at the house of Anna and Daniel Keel, a couple I’d grown friendly with. Anna was a brilliant painter for whom I had been modelling since I was 17. Her studio smelled like oil paint, instant coff...

Events

4 h. ago ‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees

War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely survivingThe pain of going to bed hungry is becoming familiar for Jamila Rabea. It’s hard to sleep. The meagre rations of bread, tomato paste and tea she spends much of her day trying to gather, she gives to her children. Five of them live with her in a shelter built from tarpaulin, cloth and scraps of wood.Like many of the refugee families living here in a makeshift camp to the east of the Yemen port city of Al-Mukalla, she has had to leave home because of the bombs and fighting. Continue reading...

Events

9 h. ago The insult Jennifer Aniston's new 'lover' wrote about his own sister that any new girlfriend should read... and the truth about his painful past

It seems the Hollywood actress, 56, may be trying her luck with love once again, after she sparked relationship rumors with hunky guru Jim Curtis this weekend.

Politics

10 h. ago Roofer, 33, may have just 2 months left to live after noticing back pain

Stephen Lea, 33, from Bootle, Merseyside, started to experience back pain last year and was given a devastating diagnosis after he went in for an MRI scan to find out the cause

Politics

10 h. ago PSG cruise to Club World Cup final after Ruiz and Dembélé stun Real Madrid

PSG 4-0 Real Madrid: Ruiz 6 24, Dembélé 9, Ramos 87Chelsea to play European champions in Sunday’s finalThere was a moment towards the end of Kylian Mbappé’s final season in France when Luis Enrique called him into his office and explained that if they did things his way, then Paris Saint-Germain could become an “absolute machine”.A little over a year later, on the day his first season at Real Madrid came to an end against his former club, the striker saw for himself, up close and painful, just how right his coach had been. The team that went to Munich and put five past Inter, the biggest winning margin a European Cup final has ever seen, came to New York and scored four against the game’s greatest aristocrats to take them to the final of the Club World Cup. Continue reading...

Politics

11 h. ago TikToker claims he scrapped 'painful' Kamala Harris interview because he would have been blamed for election loss

Comedian and TikTok star Kareem Rahma is dishing more details on why he scrapped a sought-after interview with then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris days before the election.

Politics

12 h. ago BMW secretly followed, filmed and then sacked worker over injury claim

Mohamed Kerita, who worked in the firm’s manufacturing factory, suffered with back pain from 2017, the tribunal in Reading heard.

Events

12 h. ago Lionesses legends' private message inspired England's Dutch demolition in Euros statement

England rebounded from their painful defeat against France to beat the Netherlands and move themselves one step closer to the quarter-finals of the European Championships

Politics

13 h. ago Trump unveils makeover of iconic White House room with very telling details about his personal style

President Donald Trump's redecorated White House Cabinet Room includes a painting of James K. Polk, who led the U.S. during war with Mexico. Trump told officials he picked some art for the frames.

Politics

15 h. ago 'NHS dental crisis means I've been pulling out my own teeth for 8 years'

Patients tell how they 'don't smile out of embarrassment' and live in constant pain because they can't get an NHS dentist

Events

16 h. ago LGBT veterans compensation to be sped up after fury at 'painfully slow' process

Around 20,000 armed forces personnel were jailed, dismissed or outed against their will before the rule on service was lifted in 2000, described by Veterans Minister Al Carns as a 'truly dark era'

Politics

16 h. ago Celebrities who picked up painting as Ed Sheeran turns to art

Here’s a round-up of celebrities who have ventured into painting

Politics

16 h. ago Royal tour paintings from Charles’s personal collection go on display

Tom Hallifax described being a royal tour artist as ‘a lovely thing’ that is ‘very challenging as an artist, fascinating as a person’.

Politics

17 h. ago Heartburn or something more serious? When to get chest pains checked out

While heartburn is usually a harmless reaction linked to digestion, it can sometimes point to underlying health issues

Events

17 h. ago Bombardier Progresses London Biggin Hill Aircraft Paint Facility

Bombardier Progresses London Biggin Hill Aircraft Paint Facility  Aviation International News

Events

19 h. ago Nasser Djiga tells Rangers fans the main reason he's buzzing as £10m man's loan transfer from Wolves rubber stamped

The new signing has checked in the cub’s training camp at St George’s

Economics

19 h. ago Sir Paul McCartney leads tributes to 'incredible' Oldham artist

The painter, who famously worked with stained glass, has died aged 71

Politics