2 d. ago Fashion designer Antony Price dead at 80: Clothes guru who dressed David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, Lily Allen and Queen Camilla

Rock band Duran Duran posted a statement on social media last night to mark the passing of their 'dear friend' and 'important collaborator' on Tuesday.

Culture

4 d. ago Solicitor sparks fury after hosting a 'council estate dinner' themed party with Fray Bentos pies, turkey dinosaurs and Viennetta ice cream

Sophie Murgatroyd was branded 'tone deaf' after sharing details of the meal on social media, where she wrote: 'I love cooking for my friends the theme of tonight's meal was 'council estate dinner'.

Politics

1 week ago ‘Already had a profound effect’: parents react to Australia’s social media ban

We asked you to share your views on your children’s use of social media and how the ban is affecting your family. Here is what you told usFor some parents, social media sucks up their children’s time and steals them away from family life, instilling mental health issues along the way. For others, it provides their children with an essential line to friends, family, connection and support.When Australia’s social media ban came into effect on Wednesday, millions of under-16s lost access to their accounts and were prevented from creating new ones. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Daily Mail's health editor reveals the best tech, supplements and gear... from bidets to weighted vests and creatine

Whether it is a new probiotic to help with my digestion, a pillow to ease neck pain or a water bottle to filter out impurities, I will try anything (at least once) to improve my health and wellbeing.

Science

1 week ago I'm A Celeb's Angry Ginge hailed by stars after he's crowned King of Jungle

Friends and celebrities have taken to social media in the hours since Angry Ginge was crowned the winner of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here

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2 w. ago Fake pregnancy 'mum' Kira Cousins tries to pass off mate's REAL baby as hers

Kira Cousins' victim says she "feels sick" after the young woman nicked photographs of her friend's baby to post on social media, claiming it was her little girl

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2 w. ago The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

In this week’s newsletter: We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year• Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWe’ve just inched into December, which of course means Christmas list season. Already, five days in, plenty of publications have shared their cultural best-ofs for 2025 – you can read the Guardian’s best books and songs of the year right now, with our countdowns in TV, film and music coming very soon.Meanwhile, many of you will have been bombarded on social media by screengrabs of your colleagues/friends/enemies’ Spotify Wrapped playlists (though Mood Machine author Liz Pelly has written pretty convincingly about why you shouldn’t share yours). This year’s Wrapped includes a “listening age” feature, which uses the release dates of the music you streamed to determine how horribly out-of-date your tastes are – revealing to some users that they are, in fact, centenarians. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Beautiful' schoolgirl, 13, took her own life after posting suicidal videos on social media following fall out with friends, inquest hears

Robyn Lott, described by her loving parents as 'beautiful and sensitive', was found dead in her bedroom on July 14 this year.

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2 w. ago Female partygoers ordered to pay taxi driver £200 for dodging £38 fare after being caught out bragging on social media about their crime

Larisa Sumovskaja, 18, wrote 'go like it guys xxx' on a social media post from police that carried dashcam photos of her and friend Jasmine Orchard.

Economics

3 w. ago How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’

At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a starA montage of Palantir’s CEO, Alex Karp, and waving US flags set to a remix of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck blasts out as the intro for the tech billionaire’s interview with Sourcery, a YouTube show presented by the digital finance platform Brex. Over the course of a friendly walk through the company offices, Karp fields no questions about Palantir’s controversial ties to ICE but instead extolls the company’s virtues, brandishes a sword and discusses how he exhumed the remains of his childhood dog Rosita to rebury them near his current home.“That’s really sweet,” host Molly O’Shea tells Karp. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Disturbing Paul Doyle twist that casts doubt on 'family man' claims

Before he carried out his atrocious Liverpool attack, Paul Doyle was reportedly well thought of by friends and neighbours. But his social media activity appears to show the "fantastic" family man in a very different light

Politics

3 w. ago Loose Women viewers hit out at Nadia Sawalha for 'body shaming' after comment about pal who has 'lost far too much weight', as fans fume 'you don't call people fat, so don't call people thin'

Loose Women's Nadia Sawalha has caused a storm on social media after 'body shaming' a friend on weight loss jabs for after she 'lost far too much weight'.

Events

3 w. ago Two killers 'sent cruel Facebook messages to victims' families' while behind bars

A mum has been left horrified after her son's killer made friends with a fellow murderer and began taunting her on social media sites like Snapchat and Facebook

Events

3 w. ago Joan Branson dead: Richard's heartbreaking tribute to 'best friend'

Virgin boss Richard Branson has announced that his wife Joan has sadly died, as he took to social media issuing a tear-jerking tribute to his 'best friend'

Events

3 w. ago Udo Kier, German actor who starred in 200 films spanning Lars von Trier to Ace Ventura, dies aged 81

Actor who appeared in My Own Private Idaho, Blade, Armageddon and Dogville, as well as Madonna music videos and video games, died on SundayUdo Kier, the German actor who appeared in 275 roles across Hollywood and European cinema, including multiple films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Gus Van Sant and Lars von Trier, has died aged 81.Kier died on Sunday morning, his partner Delbert McBride told Variety. The actor died in hospital in Palm Springs, California, his friend the photographer Michael Childers announced on social media. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside I'm A Celeb's Angry Ginge and Aitch's friendship that goes way back

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! fans have been loving the friendship between rapper Aitch and social media star Angry Ginge

Politics

4 w. ago Tech should help us be creative. AI rips our creativity away | Dave Schilling

AI-generated songs are topping Spotify charts. This isn’t about the ‘democratization’ of art – it’s about scaleMaking music is hard. Well, at least it used to be. I remember the old days, when you had to spend hours and hours honing skills, coming up with something clever or personal to say, then actually recording sounds that people would want to listen to. But that’s the past. In our sparkling future, a pre-teen can dump a bunch of words into a machine and out comes a catchy tune. In 2025, a robot can be a pop star. (Although Data from Star Trek did drop an album back in the 90s. How soon we all forget.)Three AI-generated songs recently topped Spotify’s “Viral 50” charts. One of the “creators” responsible for these songs, Broken Veteran, who squirted out a track about immigration policies, told the Guardian that AI is “just another tool for expression, particularly valuable for people like me who have something to say but lack traditional musical training”. It used to be that if y...

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