76 m. ago Unsuspecting teen pictured as killer brandishes huge zombie knife behind him

Ronan Kanda was just 16 when he was stabbed in the back in a case of mistaken identity with a zombie knife bought from a company linked to at least seven murders

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8 h. ago German troops withdraw from Greenland after only 44 hours following Trump's tariff threat

Donald Trump's threat of tariffs being put in place next month if Greenland is not sold to the US may have caused a European nation to have withdrawn troops from the Danish territory

Politics

9 h. ago ISIS sex slave raped by terror chief with his wife's help during 7

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Sipan Khalil was abducted and sold to ISIS commanders at the age of just 15. She was forced to endure years of rape, hunger, humiliation and violence

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9 h. ago 'My beautiful wife passed away from breast cancer leaving behind her two daughters

A widower who lost the love of his life and the mother of his two children to breast cancerhas revealed the unusual way he and those who miss her honour her memory.

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9 h. ago The most popular show among gen Z? The Rookie – a police procedural

In an era of TikTok and YouTube, teens have never watched old-school television less – yet zoomers love this broadcast drama seriesHannah Leef knows she should be studying for midterms this week. But she has to also make time to watch her all-time favorite episode of The Rookie, an ABC procedural drama about Los Angeles cops. (That would be season two, episode eight.) The 15 year old, who lives in New England, calls the show her “hyperfixation”.Leef first watched the entire series, which is currently in its eighth season, in three weeks. “Which is, like, not healthy,” she admits. She keeps up with new episodes while constantly rewatching the series – which she’s done 10 times now. She’s hooked “about 12 or 13” of her friends on The Rookie, and one of them ploughed through the entire series in a week: “She did not sleep.” Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Member of iconic noughties girlband says she was treated like a ‘pop puppet’

EXCLUSIVE: An iconic noughties popstar has revealed how she was treated like a ‘puppet’ when she was dominating the charts as part of a girl band and now wants to take control of her own identity

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11 h. ago I'm locking myself in a room for an entire YEAR, my wife will deliver food to the door and manage the household... it's the ONLY way I can lose weight and develop healthy habits

Most middle aged men would join a gym, but Chip Boyce, from Utah, has decided that the best solution for him is to lock himself in a room for an entire year.

Society

11 h. ago Sweet thing: a personal look at a photographer’s Cuban slavery heritage – photo essay

From the remnants of my great-grandparents’ Cuban home near the sugar plantation that is part of Unesco’s Slave Route programme – where they were once enslaved - to personal artefacts, each piece reconstructs an uncertain pastGathering information on our origins that might help with constructing self-identities could be a beautiful endeavour.Unfortunately, for millions of people worldwide, retracing a past filled with unfinished stories is like trying to nurture a tree whose roots have been severed.I still remember that narrow ribbon of earth winding down from my grandfather’s house towards the old Triunvirato plantation – the same fields where an enslaved woman called Carlota, who led an uprising in 1843, raised her voice against chains. In the silence of that road, it feels like a place that has been frozen in time Continue reading...

Culture

11 h. ago ‘People saw dollar signs’: a year after devastating wildfires, an LA community is fighting displacement

As survivors face pressure to sell their land in Altadena, a historic Black community, experts say we’re witnessing ‘climate gentrification’Ellen Williams’ left hand played with her long dark hair as her right hand guided the steering wheel, her phone resting face-down in her lap. Born and raised in Altadena, an unincorporated area in Los Angeles county, she didn’t need to look at a map as she drove to where her home of 22 years burned down.We passed empty lots with gaping holes where foundations once stood. The banging of hammers rang through the neighborhood and wood frames rose from the dirt, the smell of fresh lumber in the air. Perched on street corners were signs declaring: “Altadena is not for sale.” Continue reading...

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11 h. ago EastEnders mystery man is Mark Fowler Jr as return confirmed after 10 years

BBC EastEnders has finally confirmed the identity of the mystery man who appeared in the flashforward earlier this month, with Mark Fowler Jr returning to Walford

Politics

12 h. ago The coffee postcode lottery! How the cost of a flat white varies dramatically across the UK

Coffee chains make identical drinks, using the same machines, wherever you are in the UK - but you'll pay more or less depending on where you are when you're buying it.

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13 h. ago Eight changes as Celtic aim to avoid Scottish Cup shock and wrongly identified £5m man lands new role

Martin O'Neill has made it abundantly clear he will freshen up his side against Auchinleck Talbot

Economics

13 h. ago 'Irresistibly scandalous' murder mystery series that's 'more fun than it has any right to be' is now free to stream

The drama - described as 'more fun than it has any right to be' - follows four people working together to cover up a dark secret.

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13 h. ago Top band 'beat the crap out of each other' during 'very dark' recording sessions

As The Police battle it out in the High Court in a royalties row we look at other bands who have fallen out over money

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13 h. ago Breathtaking abandoned islands off Scottish coast is walkers' paradise – but has dark past

St Kilda was home to humans for 2,000 years before the last residents were evacuated in 1930, and today visitors can camp overnight on this remote UNESCO World Heritage site

Politics

16 h. ago Donald Trump uses 3 'unethical' power moves to get his own way

A body language expert has identified three specific tactics Donald Trump uses to assert dominance in public appearances - including his signature wide-legged stance, aggressive handshake technique, and distinctive 'power pout'

Politics

17 h. ago London leaver: 'My £400k Glastonbury home cost a third what I sold for in Camberwell'

Katie Young says swapping south London for Somerset offered an affordable new start post divorce

Economics

17 h. ago Departure(s) by Julian Barnes: Love, sex and a real sense of an ending

Julian Barnes will be 80 on January 19, an anniversary he is celebrating with the publication of this book, which he says will definitely be his last, although he’ll continue journalism, plus a sold-out conversation with his old mucker Ian McEwan at the Union Chapel next week.

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19 h. ago 'I was rushed through a dark tunnel and experienced dying at 19

One 19-year-old blacked out into oblivion in a Virginia field in 1979 and was taken on a fantastical journey that she later recognised as a near-death experience that changed her perception of reality.

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21 h. ago Huge scale of entire new Welsh community built from nothing on an old steelworks site

What used to be a massive steelworks is now a brand new community

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