38 m. ago A school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz leaves at least 8 people and suspected gunman dead

At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator also died, the city’s mayor said

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49 m. ago ‘They tell you every minor inconvenience’: bartenders on which generation has the worst behavior

Gen Z patrons have stopped opening bar tabs and can’t order quickly, but older customers’ etiquette isn’t perfect eitherGen Z are used to headlines about the things they’ve “killed”: writing in cursive, getting their driver’s licenses, knowing how printers work, wearing skinny jeans. Their latest offense, according to a recent New York Times article: opening bar tabs.Bartenders and drinkers alike spoke to the Times about young people’s hesitancy to leave their credit cards behind the bar, instead preferring to close out and pay after every single drink – no matter how many rounds they order. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Adidas drops new Samba OG collab with Liberty London, and it’s the perfect summer shoe

Adidas drops new Samba OG collab with Liberty London, and it’s the perfect summer shoe  Syracuse.com

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22 h. ago Property expert Phil Spencer on future house prices, mortgage rates and his best ever investment...

This month Phil Spencer takes on our quickfire property questions and gives his views on the current state of the market.

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22 h. ago Covid variant: Symptoms you need to look out for as doctors issue warning

A new variant now spreading across Europe and multiple other continents could leave people with a host of unpleasant symptoms - that don't feel like classic Covid

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24 h. ago Crayon brainteaser leaves people baffled but there's an 'obvious' answer

It's important to keep your mind active throughout the day and one way to achieve this is by challenging yourself to a brainteaser – so why not give this crayon one a go?

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30 h. ago Rooted in value: Why a designer garden could be your home’s best investment yet

Adele Cardani asks property experts about the rising influence of landscape architecture in the housing market

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45 h. ago The ‘lovely’ seaside town near Greater Manchester where people ‘don’t want to leave’

The seaside town was once named one of the UK's best places to live

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64 h. ago ‘We are disappearing’: Britain’s first trans judge on Supreme Court defeat – and why she’s challenging it

Victoria McCloud was publicly promoted as a symbol of diversity in the justice system, but this year it changed her legal sex overnight. The Independent Pride List 2025 winner tells Emma Henderson how vulnerable trans people are leaving Britain and why she’s taking on the Supreme Court ruling in an even higher court

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3 d. ago Cheese factory 'chemical spill' leaves 17 people injured as hazard team respond

Emergency services were called to the site after the alarm was raised in the early hours of Saturday, June 7.

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3 d. ago The Adidas and Liberty London Collab Just Dropped and the Samba Sneakers Will Sell Out

The Adidas and Liberty London Collab Just Dropped and the Samba Sneakers Will Sell Out  whowhatwear.com

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3 d. ago Watch Beyoncé’s Pants Drop as She Rebounds From Unexpected Wardrobe Malfunction in London

Watch Beyoncé’s Pants Drop as She Rebounds From Unexpected Wardrobe Malfunction in London  American Songwriter

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3 d. ago Chaos as artists pull out of London festival over concerns of 'art

Musical acts including LVRA and Heartworms have dropped out of the inaugural SXSW London festival due to the undisclosed involvement of former MPs Tony Blair and David Cameron

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4 d. ago Average UK house price drops by over £1,000 in a single month

The housing market is now ‘largely stable,’ experts say

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4 d. ago I love the graffiti I see in Paris – but tagging is just visual manspreading | Alexander Hurst

Call me a middle-class ‘bobo’, but inspired street art has nothing in common with sprayed-on assertions of ‘me, me, me’Among the layers of life in Paris that energise me, I might list: peeling back the city’s music scene all the way to figuring out where, and when, the musicians go to jam together; the unassuming flair of even a basic brasserie; the way one can pivot, in the span of a week, from an art gallery opening to a friend’s concert to another friend’s restaurant to discover his Corsican-influenced menu, and end it by lingering on a terrace, “remaking the world” with others who challenge you – calmly – to see something a different way.Among the things about this city that exhaust me are the people who cram their way into the Métro without letting you step out first (seriously, what neurons are misfiring in the heads of these people?), and the sheer prevalence of tags. It’s when you leave Paris for a bit and come back that you realise how many tags there are. How swaths of a c...

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4 d. ago Fact check: More people leave than arrive on current youth mobility schemes

Current schemes, which are mainly with countries with smaller populations, might not accurately predict how future schemes will perform.

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4 d. ago Inside Ryanair flight from hell as scared passengers 'thrown against the ceiling' in storm

A plane journey from hell saw a pilot forced to abandon a journey due to extreme conditions – leaving nine people injured, including a two year old and a member of staff

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5 d. ago London councillor refused permission to install dropped kerb at his home over road safety fears

Mustafa Cetinkaya, who represents Haselbury ward in Edmonton, was initially granted approval for the dropped kerb in September.

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5 d. ago 'I own the UK's most haunted hotel and this is why people leave in the middle of the night'

My Haunted Hotel is now available to stream on Prime Video

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6 d. ago US remains ‘completely committed’ to Nato says secretary general ahead of Ukraine military aid meeting – Europe live

Mark Rutte comments on absence of US defense secretary Pete Hegseth from meeting about defence of UkraineMeanwhile in Cologne, Germany, the biggest evacuation since the second world war is under way after the discovery of three unexploded bombs dropped by allied forces 80 years ago.About 20,000 people are having to leave their homes and businesses, while hotels, a care home for elderly people and a hospital are being evacuated. Three bridges over the Rhine have been closed and rail traffic has been halted or diverted. Continue reading...

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