41 h. ago How to talk dating like gen Z: 51 (hyperspecific) terms for love, sex and bad behavior

As young people take on a messy dating landscape, they’ve created their own lexicon to match. Here’s like what phrases ‘bird theory’ and ‘monkey branching’ meanThis year marked a decade since the term “ghosting” hit the mainstream. At the time, the idea that someone could abruptly cease communication with a lover without explanation seemed like the peak of indignity. How naive we were. In the 10 years since, finding a partner has only become more confounding – an oftentimes fruitless exercise in humiliation that is increasingly pigeonholed by social media jargon.Gen Z, a cohort who came of age during a loneliness epidemic, a masculinity crisis, and a coordinated attack on the rights of women and the LGBTQ+ community, faces a far messier landscape than their millennial predecessors could ever imagine. And so their dating glossary has grown longer and more deranged, with phrases like “Shrekking” and “monkey branching” testing the limits of your sanity.Red flags – Behavioral quirks ind...

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6 d. ago How a shadowy undercover agent and painstaking police investigation helped nail IS terrorists and prevent a bloodbath

Very little is known about the undercover agent who foiled a planned terror attack in Manchester in the summer of 2024

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1 week ago Australia’s prime minister booed at ceremony mourning Bondi Beach attack victims

Anthony Albanese has ordered a review of intelligence agencies in the wake of the attack

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2 w. ago Children survivors of Manchester Arena terror attack suicide bombing to receive almost £20million in damages

16 youngsters, all aged under 16 at the time of the attack, will receive amounts ranging from £11.4 million to £2,770.

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Boris and Sofia Gurman, aged 69 and 61, were killed while trying to disarm an attacker during Bondi Beach attack

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The mother of the children was also injured in the attack.

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The rockstar died in July aged 76 from a reported heart attack just weeks after reuniting with Black Sabbath’s farewell concert.

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A GIANT dome at the Chornobyl nuclear plant that was built to contain radiation is no longer functioning after a drone attack by the Russians. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that the protective cover, which was built to shield the infamous Reactor 4 following the 1986 Chornobyl explosion, can no longer perform its...

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4 w. ago UK sanctions Russia’s GRU spy agency over 2018 nerve agent attack

Britain has sanctioned Russia’s GRU intelligence agency and summoned Moscow’s ambassador after an inquiry concluded that President Vladimir Putin was responsible for a nerve agent attack on British soil in 2018

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European affairs expert Professor Anthony Glees has told The Mirror how another sickening attack involving the nerve agent Novichok, which killed Dawn Sturgess, could happen again

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