63 m. ago Hefin David remembered as 'powerful voice for the people of Wales'

Welsh Labour MS Hefin David has died suddenly at the age of 47

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3 h. ago ‘A whole spectrum of hatred’: women face increased violence in Milei’s Argentina as rights are eroded

In a country once lauded as a progressive bastion in Latin America, protections are being dismantled by a populist leader, and gender-based offences are on the riseIn the week before her murder, Fernanda Soledad Yramain lay awake at night listening as a motorbike circled the house where she was hiding. “She kept saying ‘it’s him’,” remembers Daniella Viscarra, Soledad’s sister-in-law with whom she had sought refuge in the Tucumán countryside. “She was scared all of the time.”A month earlier, in September 2024, 29-year-old Soledad had ended a relationship with her boyfriend, Francisco Timoteo Saldaño. They had been together since she was 14 and he was 35, and shared three children. In the final year of their relationship, Saldaño had turned violent. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Girl, 12, is raped by 200 men in three months after being trafficked to India after running away from home when she failed an exam and was scared her parents would be angry

She ran away with the help of a woman she knew, who smuggled her across the border and sold her into the sex trade, according to police.

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6 h. ago Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell review – the original ghostbuster

An entrancing biography of Tony Cornell, who displayed a scientist’s commitment to impartiality as he investigated the paranormalMy first and only experience with a Ouija board occurred when I was 11, at a friend’s house. It was good, spooky fun until it wasn’t. I recall movement and the start of a message before we recoiled from the board. Later that evening, I learned that my grandfather had died. While I realise now that a boy with a terminally ill relative and a lurid imagination was not the most reliable witness, I remember wanting to believe that I’d had a brush with the uncanny.When Times journalist Ben Machell’s dying grandmother bequeathed him a crystal ball, he began idly searching for mediums and happened across the work of a man named Tony Cornell. Between 1952 and 2004, Cornell worked (unpaid and to the detriment of two marriages) for the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). Weeding out deception and delusion from accounts of paranormal activity to find out w...

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7 h. ago Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs | Rafael Behr

In Alaska the Russian leader will claim to want peace, but only on his terms – and play on the president’s desperation to ‘make a deal’ quicklyWars do not have to be won. Total victories loom largest in the popular imagination because those are the stories nations always tell to sustain patriotic feeling. The fuller version of history is written in stalemates.That is worth remembering when Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. Both leaders have incentives to pretend that Ukraine’s fate can be settled decisively without any Ukrainians at the negotiating table. That doesn’t make it so. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago British Airways stewardess wins discrimination case after being sacked for fear of flying

Jennifer Clifford had been a loyal and dedicated employee for almost 40 years, but was sacked after she was too scared to fly following the Covid-19 pandemic

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9 h. ago Dear Coleen: 'I want to leave my husband for my lover but I'm scared my kids will hate me'

"I don’t want to hurt anyone, but feel if I stay in this unhappy marriage, I’ll suffer myself. Am I selfish for feeling this way? I don’t know what to do."

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18 h. ago British Airways air stewardess sacked for being too scared to fly wins discrimination claim

Jennifer Clifford worked for the airline for almost 40 years before the Covid-19 pandemic, an employment tribunal heard.

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20 h. ago Opening round Premier League fixtures to be preceded by silence in memory of Diogo Jota

The late Liverpool forward will be remembered before the opening round of fixtures in the new season

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24 h. ago Model couldn't sit down after two horror 'botched' BBLs – but is still going back under knife

Model Alanna Pow says she's been left with two botched BBLs after undergoing cheap treatment in Turkey - but it hasn't scared her off from going under the knife

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26 h. ago Lionesses star Jess Carter reveals she was 'scared to PLAY' after suffering horrific racist abuse during England's Euros campaign

Lionesses star Jess Carter has revealed that she was 'scared to play' for the first time in her career after being subjected to racist abuse during Euro 2025.

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29 h. ago The Benson Diary by AC Benson review – musings of an Edwardian elitist

At four million words he beats Pepys, but the daily jottings of a judgmental don fail to transcend his rather stuffy millieuAC Benson is remembered today, if at all, for having edited three volumes of Queen Victoria’s letters and for writing Land of Hope and Glory to accompany Elgar’s first Pomp and Circumstance march – though, like Elgar, he came to dislike the vainglorious imperial sentiments that the words express – “vulgar stuff and not my manner at all”. Born in 1862, he began his working life as a school master at Eton, before moving on in 1904 to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was first a fellow and then master.Notably, he left voluminous diaries – over four million words, filling 180 bound volumes – four times the length of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, who had been an undergraduate at Magdalene. Benson was well connected and knew most of the political and literary elite of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, so one might have expected him to offer a similarly ...

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33 h. ago Dear Coleen: 'I'm scared of leaving my daughter alone with her mean granny'

"She’s shown little interest in her since she was born and is always “too busy” to spend proper time with her."

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35 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: I'm pleased public sentiment on Lucy Letby has shifted

How public opinion can change. Do you remember reporters rushing from the Manchester courthouse in 2023, breathlessly exclaiming, 'She's guilty!', moments after Lucy Letby's conviction?

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38 h. ago Woman's haunting last 5 words to dad before dying after weight loss surgery

Brooke Tiddy's family has remembered the 'energetic and enthusiastic soul' who was 'deeply motivated to improve her health' after her death following a weight loss procedure

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40 h. ago Christine McGuinness 'scared to date' after Paddy split as she walks out of Celebs Go Dating mixer

Christine McGuiness has admitted that the thought of going on a date "scares her" as she walked out of her first Celebs Go Dating mixer due to being overwhelmed during Monday's episode.

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43 h. ago Alien: Earth cast admits they ‘weren’t scared’ of show’s new ‘vegan’ Xenomorph

The cast of the terrifying new Alien series have admitted they weren’t particularly scared of the iconic space menace on set for one simple reason

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45 h. ago Why do I feel so much worse after a nap – and how can I avoid it?

Waking up from a nap feeling groggy, tired or ill? Experts say it’s common. Here’s what could be going wrongI woke up on the couch feeling nauseous and groggy, with a needle-jabbing-my-temples headache. Was it the flu? Did I eat something bad? There was drool on my cheek, and I glanced at the clock. I remembered checking the time at 1.30 pm; it was now 4pm.I’d accidentally taken a nap. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Warning as woman, 27, suffers horrifying reaction to one of UK's most taken pain medications

A mother-of-three has told of her horrifying ordeal after she was put in a 21-day coma after suffering a rare reaction to an over-the-counter painkiller that caused her skin to 'fall off in sheets.'

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47 h. ago I was 'terrified' I'd hurt my baby: bestselling novelist Sarah Vaughan shares secret battle with mental health condition that affects 1 in 6 new mothers

The novelist remembered struggling to walk up and down flights of stairs with her new baby, fearing she would drop them.

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