17 h. ago Nicolas Sarkozy's prison hell: Disgraced former French president to publish memoir about brief spell in jail

The 70-year-old became the first French head of state to be jailed since the end of the Second World War , spending three weeks locked inside the walls of Paris's La Sante prison.

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20 h. ago Supermarché sweep: the treats we love to buy on holiday in Europe

Italian sweets, Irish smoked fish, honey cakes in Belgium travel writers choose the stores and local delicacies they make a beeline for when travellingI fell in love with Belgian snacks when cycling the amateur version of the Tour of Flanders some years ago. The feed stations along the route were crammed with packets of Meli honey waffles and Meli honey cake. I ate so many that I suffered withdrawal symptoms after finishing the last of them at the end of the 167-mile route. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Dad eats only Wetherspoons for 72 hours and is amazed by total bill

YouTuber Just Deano ate nothing but Wetherspoons meals for three days and he was mightily impressed when he added up the total cost at the end of his eating challenge

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44 h. ago Man eats nothing but Wetherspoons for three days and is floored by how much it costs

YouTuber Just Deano ate nothing but Wetherspoons for three whole days and while some of the meals caught him by surprise, the biggest shock was the total cost

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3 d. ago Ruby Wax swipes at 'entitled and greedy' Shona McGarty as she delivers damning verdict on I'm A Celebrity contraband scandal

Ruby Wax thinks that Shona McGarty has developed a sense of 'entitlement' in the Jungle after she secretly ate a packet of butter snuck into camp by AngryGinge.

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4 d. ago I swear, a DEER ate my homework! Moment fawn walks into classroom in front of stunned students

This is the moment students in China were left amused when a deer strolled through their classroom and started munching on exam papers.

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4 d. ago Man praised for refusing to cater Christmas dinner to sister's 'picky' teenagers

The man revealed his sister told him he deserved the teasing and ridicule from his nieces after they refused his Christmas meal and only ate the bread

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4 d. ago Police wait for evidence to emerge after alleged thief ‘ate Fabergé pendant’

An officer has been assigned to ‘constantly monitor the man’ and retrieve the locket

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5 d. ago Spanish swine fever outbreak may be linked to food eaten by boar, say officials

Hundreds of police, rangers and military personnel deployed to tackle virus threatening pork export industrySpanish authorities have deployed hundreds of police officers, wildlife rangers and military personnel in an effort to contain an outbreak of highly infectious African swine fever (ASF) outside Barcelona before it becomes a major threat to the country’s €8.8bn-a-year pork export industry.Officials believe the virus, detected in the municipality of Bellaterra, may have begun to circulate after a wild boar ate contaminated food that had been brought in from outside Spain. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago 'I woke up naked in desert grave, survived for 71 days by eating leeches and still don't know how I got there'

Ricky Megee ate snakes and drank urine to survive ten weeks of hell in the Australian Outback after an alleged kidnapping - but not everybody is buying his story.

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1 week ago Man from US tries Terry's Chocolate Orange for first time and has big complaint

An American named Russ tried a Terry's Chocolate Orange for the first time and ate it like an apple, leaving British viewers shocked by his unconventional approach to the Christmas treat

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1 week ago Jeremy died just minutes after he ate sausages while camping with friends

Jeremy Webb, 16, was on a camping trip with three friends on the Central Coast on June 10, 2022, when he started having difficulty breathing and tragically died.

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1 week ago The surprising reason why turkeys have become the main dish of Thanksgiving

Historians have long debated whether pilgrims ate turkey in 1621

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2 w. ago I ate at the Christmas market stall so popular it needs its own security

They've had to bring in extra support to manage the queues

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2 w. ago Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future – an astonishing look at how tech is changing disabled people’s lives

Prepare to have your perspective shattered by the comedian’s visits to our US tech overlords. The upcoming advancements for those with disabilities are life-changingWashing machines liberated women to get soul-crushing jobs that ate up their free time. Social media gave the world one revolution – before it destabilised democracies everywhere else. Now AI is here, and its main job seems to be replacing screenwriters. It’s easy to fall into techno-pessimism, but new documentary Seeing into the Future (Sunday 23 November, 8pm, BBC Two) has a different angle. For disabled people, tech has already brought about life-changing advancements. And we haven’t seen anything yet.It is presented by comedian and Strictly winner Chris McCausland, who is blind. Some of the most casually astonishing scenes occur early on, showing how he uses his phone – essentially, an eye with a mouth. “What T-shirt is this?” he asks, holding up a garment. “A grey T-shirt with a graphic logo of Deftones,” his p...

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2 w. ago Sick cannibal who butchered homeless man and ate his brain and eyeball is released

Tyree Smith - dubbed the Connecticut Cannibal - carried out the brutal killing of homeless man Angel Gonzalez after saying he wanted to get "blood on his hands"

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2 w. ago Killer murdered man then ate his brain and eyeball in a cemetery

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Tyree Smith, dubbed the Connecticut Cannibal, butchered homeless man Angel Gonzalez with a hatchet and ate his brain and eyeball in 2011

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2 w. ago Cannibal killer allowed to walk free after killing and eating man in graveyard

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Tyree Smith, dubbed the Connecticut Cannibal, butchered homeless man Angel Gonzalez in 2011 and ate his brain and eyeball in a cemetery

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2 w. ago Cannibal killer allowed to walk free after eating man's brain and eyeball in graveyard

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Tyree Smith, dubbed the Connecticut Cannibal, butchered homeless man Angel Gonzalez in 2011 and ate his brain and eyeball in a cemetery

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2 w. ago Mum and son ate nuggets from McDonald's before 'finding maggots'

Susan was driving as she ate the nuggets so didn't see anything until she stopped

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