56 m. ago The kindness of strangers: a man I’d just met helped me land the job that changed my life

Because he’d gone to the trouble of setting it up, I went to the interview – even though I didn’t have a visaRead more in the kindness of strangers seriesIn the late 1980s, I was setting off on a backpacking trip to Europe with a friend. They were interested in doing a master’s degree in New York, so we’d booked a two-week stay in the Big Apple on the way to London.We arrived at the postgrad residence, a big 10-storey building on the Upper West Side called International House which had been set up by Rockefeller to house postgraduate students. We dropped our bags and went straight to the canteen, where we grabbed food, took a seat and started talking to other diners. Continue reading...

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56 m. ago What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart

A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itselfThe computer interrupted while Pamela was still speaking. I had accompanied her – my dear friend – to a recent doctor’s appointment. She is in her 70s, lives alone while navigating multiple chronic health issues, and has been getting short of breath climbing the front stairs to her apartment. In the exam room, she spoke slowly and self-consciously, the way people often do when they are trying to describe their bodies and anxieties to strangers. Midway through her description of how she had been feeling, the doctor clicked his mouse and a block of text began to bloom across the computer monitor.The clinic had adopted an artificial-intelligence scribe, and it was transcribing and summarizing the conversation in real time. It was also highlighting keywords, suggesting diagnostic possibilities and providing billing codes. The doctor, apparently satisfied that his computer had captu...

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86 m. ago Big Brother's Richard Storry's feud with Caroline explained and life outside the iconic house

Big Brother star Richard Storry has been on the ITV show since its return in September

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89 m. ago 'Serious fears' Trump could launch 'major lawsuit' against BBC over '100% fake news'

The BBC has been accused of 'doctoring' footage of US President Donald Trump in a segment apparently riling up crowds ahead of the Capitol riots in 2021. The White House hit out

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1 hour ago You're doing the laundry wrong! Experts reveal how often you should really clean your bath mat

It's the bathroom item you likely use every day - but have you ever given much thought to how often you should wash your bath mat?

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2 h. ago Peter Andre reveals how wife Emily copes with his romance scenes after he kickstarted an acting career

In his new Channel 5 show, Peter's character George strikes up a will they/won't they romance with a co-star, with viewers desperate to know if they'll finally bite the bullet and share their first kiss.

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2 h. ago ‘Too far? I don’t think we’ve gone far enough!’ The founder of Peta on gruesome stunts and her bloody fight for animal rights

After 45 years as chief fake blood thrower, Ingrid Newkirk is still waging war on everything from leather to cashmere. Is she still relevant?Ingrid Newkirk was 54 when she thought she was going to die in a plane crash. It was late summer and the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) was flying from Minneapolis in the US to the company HQ in Norfolk, Virginia when her plane encountered strong wind shear. The pilot attempted an emergency landing, but failed; back up they went.On the third attempt, with “a teaspoon of fuel” in the tank, he finally got the plane down safely. During those moments, Newkirk, now 76, scribbled a will on a napkin. She has tweaked it over the years, but it still reads like a horror movie prop list: her liver is to be sent to France to be made into foie gras, her skin to Hermès to create a handbag and her lips to whichever US president is in power, to shame them for granting a “patronising” pardon to a turkey each Thanksgiving. As wills...

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2 h. ago Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’

White House is manipulating voting system, from redistricting to rule changes, to affect midtermsA year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States and raising what experts say are troubling questions about the future of one of the world’s oldest democracies.While Democratic leaders continue to invest their hopes in a “blue wave” to overturn Republican majorities in the House and Senate next year, Trump and some prominent supporters have sought to discredit the possibility that Republicans could lose in a fair fight and are using that premise to justify demands for a drastically different kind of electoral system. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Energy jobs: Scottish power firm SSEN Transmission launches 600 paid trainee roles in green sector

One major power firm is helping people turn their passion for clean energy into a career 🌱

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3 h. ago Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’

Trump’s team flirts with weakening the dollar, threatening US influence, low borrowing costs and global stabilityMagical thinking is indispensable to understanding Team Trump’s economic policymaking. The White House often seems to believe two opposing policies can work together while one policy can do two or three contradictory things.A heavy dose of hocus pocus will be needed to make the administration’s dollar policy work in the interest of the United States, for it appears that they want to end the US dollar’s supremacy in global finance. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago 5 cars loved by petrolheads that are becoming EVs in 2026 – including flagship SUV and iconic Volkswagen

THE car industry is undergoing rapid change as brands transition away from petrol and towards battery power. Electric cars are no longer new on UK roads, with the Tesla Model Y remaining a big seller, ditto the MG4 and Skoda Enyaq, while the reborn Renault 5 and Nissan Micra shows how familiar badges can tap...

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4 h. ago Donald Trump White House claim BBC '100% fake news' rejected by UK minister

US President Donald Trump's press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the BBC of being 'total, 100% fake news' amid a row over an edited Panorama documentary

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4 h. ago Fury as UK council spends £200,000 reprinting tax bills due to minor typo

Bristol City Council dispatched 239,143 letters last month to clarify a "typographical error" on this year's council tax bills - despite the mistake having absolutely no effect on the amounts households are required to pay

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5 h. ago Coronation Street's Izzy star's famous husband leaves fans stunned

Coronation Street star Cherylee Houston, who plays Izzy Armstrong, is married to a famous face who has also appeared in the ITV soap...

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6 h. ago Last bid to solve mystery of boy, three, who disappeared 80 years ago

Peter was playing with his brother and sister when he vanished without a trace

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6 h. ago 'I fell for loving husband then discovered 10 secret children by 7 women'

Mary Turner Thomson was cruelly duped by Will Jordan - a man posing as a CIA agent, who married her bigamously, stole her money, and lived multiple secret lives with different women

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7 h. ago 'I've finally found the heating product that could save a fortune on my bills'

I tested out SmartAir's radiator fan and was so impressed with the result

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7 h. ago How to watch Crystal Palace vs Brighton: TV channel and live stream for Premier League today

Clean sheets are far from commonplace in the M23 derby

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8 h. ago Lola Petticrew: ‘Calling it the Troubles minimises what it really was’

The Belfast actor won an Ifta award and a Bafta nod for their performance as an IRA soldier in last year’s ‘Say Nothing’. Now they speak to Annabel Nugent about their latest role in ‘Trespasses’, the long-lasting effects of the Troubles – and why they’d be more than happy playing Irish roles for the rest of their life

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8 h. ago Horoscope today: Your daily guide for Sunday, November 9, 2025

Read what the stars mean for you today, from Scorpio to Gemini

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