7 h. ago ‘Fear haunts us’: Pakistan’s floods leave mental scars long after waters recede

Shock, panic, guilt and grief grip survivors as mental health experts warn of chronic trauma from repeated exposure to natural disastersFor a 10-year-old, the loss is proving hard to grasp. “It has been four days since I last saw my home,” says Ahsan. He has not yet understood that the floods completely swept away his house in Dogoro Basha village in Shigar, Pakistan.His confusion is part of the devastating aftermath of long months of rain and floods that have devastated thousands of families in the country’s northern provinces and left more than 860 people dead so far. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says

The landslide destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivorMore than 1,000 people were killed in a landslide in western Sudan on Sunday, according to a rebel group that controls the area.The landslide destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivor, said the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Celtic ace lifts lid on being left out of team and explains how he's improved as player

Belgian hopes to catch Rodgers’ eye with hard work and quality

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3 d. ago ‘The water left nothing’: Pakistan’s Punjab province reels from deadly floods

Fears of disease as more than 1,400 villages under water after three large rivers overflow their banksIman Salim is used to seeing flood waters in the field of lush lilypads next to her home in the village of Kamanwala. But nothing prepared her for this week, when torrential monsoon rains that broke a 49-year record lashed the area, flooding her house with water that rose above her chest.“The whole house has drowned. The water left nothing,” the 24-year-old said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago MAGA world is loving Melania Trump finally making the Vanity Fair cover. It’s a fake

‘Real or not real hilarious to read the Left’s reaction,’ Fox News host Laura Ingraham tweeted about the fake image.

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4 d. ago Which Bloomsbury set writer does Niall Williams have no time for?

Niall Williams answers our burning questions, what is he reading, what book would he take to a desert island, what gave him the reading bug, what left him cold?

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5 d. ago 'As a Thursday Murder Club book fanatic the film was a huge disappointment'

For anyone who has read The Thursday Murder Club book, prepare to be left frustrated.

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7 d. ago Reading Festival fan scours field for rubbish and is amazed by what he finds

A concert-goer spent hours sifting through the rubbish left behind after Reading Festival ended on Sunday (August 24) and found a few valuable items, as well as some he was less thrilled about

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7 d. ago 'I searched rubbish left at Reading Festival and struck gold'

A music lover rifled through the rubbish left behind after Reading Festival came to an end and has shared some of the more interesting items he managed to recover

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9 d. ago ‘I won’t be holding back’: Jack Draper raring to go at US Open after injury layoff

British No 1 has not played singles since WimbledonDraper still feels some discomfort in left armJack Draper believes he will not be held back by any physical pain as he faces the challenge of finding his form at the US Open after a seven-week injury hiatus.Draper, the fifth seed in New York, has not competed in singles since a difficult loss to Marin Cilic in the second round of Wimbledon after learning that he had been suffering from bone bruising in his left arm. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Italian pizzeria owner praised for tracking down ‘dine and dash’ tourists

Michela Malatini used social media to trace two French women and presented them with their €44 billAn Italian pizzeria owner has been praised for her bravery after managing to track down a pair of “dine and dash” tourists and handing them the bill.The French women had enjoyed pizza and a few glasses of Aperol spritz at Ai Due Re pizzeria in Civitanova Marche, a town on the Adriatic coast, racking up a €44 bill. But they left without paying. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Which famous adventurer would Adele Parks take to a desert island?

Adele Parks answers our burning questions, what's she reading now, what would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what book left her cold?

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1 week ago ‘Pregnant, homeless, what now?’ The search for a safe place to abandon a baby

Each year, women make the desperate decision to abandon their babies. Specially designed ‘baby windows’ can help – but some argue they make matters worseWhen Romina discovered she was pregnant in 2021, she was 39 years old and homeless, without a euro to her name. She did what many a lonely and frightened woman has done throughout history, on learning that she was going to have a baby, and pretended she wasn’t. “If you don’t think about it, it doesn’t exist – something like that,” she told me, more than three years on.By the time she noticed the changes in her body, she had been homeless for nearly seven years. Before that, she had lived a comfortable, secure life in The Hague, with a man she had fallen passionately in love with. But the man had become controlling, she said, preventing her from working or seeing her friends, spying on her and eventually threatening her if she left him. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Supermarkets suspend supplies from Lincolnshire pig farm after covert filming of animal abuse

Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s said they had ‘immediately’ suspended supplies from Somerby Top Farm after piglets kicked by workersThree of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm after footage filmed covertly by an animal rights organisation appeared to show workers kicking piglets and hitting them with boards and paddles.The footage also suggested the injured pigs with open wounds were packed into pens covered in faeces, with some left lame and writhing in pain. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Supermarkets suspend supplies from Lincolnshire pig farm over animal abuse footage

Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s said they had ‘immediately’ suspended supplies from Somerby Top Farm after piglets kicked by workersThree of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm after footage filmed covertly by an animal rights organisation appeared to show workers kicking piglets and hitting them with boards and paddles.The footage also suggested the injured pigs with open wounds were packed into pens covered in faeces, with some left lame and writhing in pain. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago WA’s ‘longest and most intense’ marine heatwave killed coral across 1,500km stretch

Scientists shocked by bleaching event that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore ReefGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereThe “longest, largest and most intense” marine heatwave ever recorded in Western Australia has killed coral throughout an area that stretches 1,500km, according to state and federal scientists. More than 100 scientists and marine managers will gather in Perth on Tuesday for a special meeting to discuss the devastating event that bleached and killed corals on remote reefs earlier this year.The marine heatwave that hit reefs from the world heritage-listed Ningaloo to the remote Ashmore Reef left many scientists shocked. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Lily Phillips: Crying review – laughing through the toxic positivity around childbirth

Monkey Barrel, EdinburghAmusing vignettes about arrogant consultants and undignified poos keep things light as Phillips documents a harrowing hospital experienceExpectations and reality don’t always align when it comes to childbirth. Lily Phillips (not that one, she assures us, getting good mileage from her porn star namesake) thought she was well informed. She’d gone through a long process of IVF to get there, attended NCT classes, and, when labour started, she was ready for the if not serene then empowering birthing experience and magical moment of immediate love that would follow.Instead, she discovered that “birth is barbaric and early motherhood is brutal”. Yet even her NCT WhatsApp group, where she turned after a harrowing hospital experience, requested “no negative birth stories, please”. Crying does a lot to redress the balance and cuts through the “toxic positivity” surrounding childbirth that left Phillips feeling alone. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 10 best festival essentials to buy now for August 2025 – from tents to power banks

Still got a festival left in your 2025 diary? From Boardmasters to Reading, here’s the kit that’ll keep you dry, charged and comfortable without blowing your budget.

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3 w. ago Dynamite, sex toys – and liver? Readers on the weirdest things they’ve found in a new home

From 1970s Y-fronts to gold teeth and carefully placed pennies, readers describe the strange, horrible, sometimes hilarious treasures left by previous occupantsOur new house had once been the home of a ferry boat captain and his family. The previous owners requested that we dispose of anything left behind. “We’re going to find a body,” I told my husband as we considered the piles and piles of things in the den, the garage and the attic. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago England’s Chris Woakes: ‘It’s not the way you want to be front

The pace bowler says of risking his career by going out to bat against India after dislocating his shoulder: ‘You just know you’re part of something bigger’“I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I didn’t try,” says Chris Woakes, just 48 hours after he walked out to a standing ovation at the Oval, left arm in a sling, bat in hand, ready to push through the agony of a dislocated shoulder to get England the win.It may have been thwarted, with India victorious by a slim six runs to bring one of the most thrilling series in recent times to an end in a 2-2 draw. But the selfless act of crossing the boundary with a potentially career‑threatening injury meant Woakes entered cricketing folklore – echoing Colin Cowdrey in 1963, Paul Terry and Malcolm Marshall in 1984, and Rishabh Pant at Old Trafford just a week earlier. Continue reading...

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