17 h. ago Brit leaves wife in UK to spend Christmas in Tenerife with the lads

Dan, who documents his travel with wife Natalia on Youtube and Instagram, spent Christmas Day on the Canary Islands hotspot of Tenerife with his two scaffolder friends

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17 h. ago Brit leaves wife in UK to spend Christmas Day in Tenerife with the lads

Dan, a scaffolder from Essex, spent Christmas Day in Tenerife with two of his mates while his wife stayed at home in the UK - and she wasn't too happy about the plan

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5 d. ago I was sold the Dubai dream then left for good after 2 months – I made more cash but it’s so soulless & fake

A British day trader and real estate agent who spent two months living in Dubai has revealed why he couldn’t wait to leave, describing the glitzy hotspot as “soulless” and “fake”. TikToker Charlie Smith, known online as @itscharliesmith, shared with his followers that despite earning record profits while living in the UAE, he packed up...

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5 d. ago How one Brit holidaymaker spent a day in Spain and it cost less than a night out in the UK

Kelsie Stonya, from Southend-On-Sea, recently took on the ultimate 'extreme day trip' - battling a storm while trying for a quick getaway.

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5 d. ago How one Brit holidaymaker spent a day in Spain and still spent less than a night out in the UK

Kelsie Stonya, from Southend-On-Sea, recently took on the ultimate 'extreme day trip' - battling a storm while trying for a quick getaway.

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6 d. ago New York mayoral candidates campaign across city in final push before election

Zohran Mamdani walked across Brooklyn Bridge while Andrew Cuomo headed to the BronxThe candidates for New York City mayor spent a frantic final day campaigning across the city, as voters prepare to head to the polls on Tuesday in one of the most closely watched races in the city’s history.Zohran Mamdani, the race’s frontrunner, whose campaign has been centered on affordability, has maintained a commanding lead, with most polls showing him leading by double digits. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus review – a cult writer tries something new

The I Love Dick author combines autofiction with memoir and true crimeThe Four Spent the Day Together is full of people seeking fresh starts, attempting to give up drugs or abusive marriages, only to find hope curdling into violence. Chris Kraus uses the phrase a lot, making it wilfully jaded in its repetitions. “He could make a fresh start.” “They decided to make a fresh start.” And all along, here she is, making her own fresh start, because this seems a new kind of book – documentarian, genuinely novelistic. But then it turns out to be packed with the same dilemmas and styles as the old ones.Kraus is an artist who became a writer almost accidentally with her 1997 cult classic I Love Dick, comprised of letters to an unreceptive lover, turning confessional female writing from abjection into assassination. She carried on writing, but the three subsequent fascinating and rebarbative novels lacked the shock and immediacy the letter form brought to the voic...

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2 w. ago How Tom Aspinall, the UFC’s nice guy, became the baddest man on the planet

Alex Pattle spent the day with the UFC heavyweight champion, his father and coach Andy, and others close to the Wigan fighter – who tell the story of a generational athlete

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3 w. ago I spent day inside New Jungle migrant camp & saw thousands of UK

AMID the sprawling squalour of the New Jungle camp in northern France, Somalian Mali Ali insists that Britain’s one-in, one-out deterrent is falling on deaf ears. “Everyone will still try to come,” says the 22-year-old ­Manchester United fan, with a sweep of his hand towards a dozens-strong queue of migrants waiting for food handouts. Hung...

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3 w. ago Literary fiction of the highest order: BOG QUEEN by Anna North, HEAP EARTH UPON IT by Chloe Michelle Howarth, THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER by Chris Kraus

Anthony Cummins reviews this week's literary fiction

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4 w. ago ‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead

Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remainsGhali Khadr spent two days pleading with his parents to flee with him to southern Gaza, warning them that it was too dangerous to stay. His father, known for being stubborn, refused. Their argument was never finished – an Israeli airstrike hit his father’s home, burying his parents beneath the rubble.On Sunday, two days after the ceasefire was announced, Khadr returned to search through the ruins of his parents’ home. He spent the day sifting through shattered concrete and twisted metal for any sign of them. All he managed to find were some shards of their skulls and parts of their hands. Continue reading...

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last month Overjoyed man finds £2.6m in his bank account – then everything changes

Guilherme Moreira, from Goiânia, Brazil, was overjoyed when he found R$18,666,000 (£2,613,000) in his account one day in 2019 - but it all went wrong after he spent some of it

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