2 h. ago Taxi driver spooked after spotting 'white lady' ghost on roadside

"They were wearing a long white dress. Some kind of cloak and a wooden staff. I had to go back round again to get a better look and I'm still none the wiser."

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5 d. ago Lab coats, red boards and oiled bodies: inside the world of junior pig showing

Competitors from across Australia converged on the Sydney Royal Easter Show on Monday to show off their pig-handling skills and see who would win best pig in showSign up for the Rural Network email newsletterGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastTwo young competitors enter the ring wearing matching white coats and serious expressions. They’re holding red plastic boards. Braced between the boards is a black-and-white Hampshire pig named Ann. The handlers, wearing oversized white lab coats and hats too big for them, are seven-year-old Asher Blenkiron and eight-year-old Zarlei Mears.They guide Ann around an obstacle course on fake green turf in front of a stand full of spectators at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. First, they usher her through a gated fence, then around a set of barrels, then through another fence before walking under an archway and back into the pen. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Why Queen Camilla had to wear black to meet the Pope while other royals could sport white ensembles

Queen Camilla was snapped wearing a conservative elegant black tailored dress, which fell to below her knees and covered her shoulders and much of her arms during her trip to Vatican City.

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1 week ago I ditched the UK for Thailand, now I live on the island where White Lotus was filmed without paying a penny in rent

Brit Iona, who often shares travel tips and hacks on her social media, took to her TikTok to reveal how she become a temporary resident on the Koh Samui island without spending any money on rent

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1 week ago Gavin Rossdale, 59, sends fans wild as he poses with glamorous girlfriend Xhoana Xheneti, 36

Bush lead singer Gavin, 59, cut a dashing figure in the Instagram post on Tuesday wearing a black cardigan over a white t-shirt teaming it with a pair of black trousers and some black trainers.

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2 w. ago Woody Harrelson admits real reason he ditched The White Lotus role and 'it's not about money'

The White Lotus almost had Woody Harrelson in season three but the actor had to make a 'hard' decision.

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2 w. ago Geri Halliwell shares bizarre reason she only wears white after influence from Steve Jobs

Former Spice Girls star Geri Halliwell-Horner has revealed the bizarre reason why she only ever wears white clothes and has shunned colourful garments

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3 w. ago All the White Lotus characters wear jewellery from an affordable Kate Middleton

From Versace to Chanel, The White Lotus is filled with luxury fashion, however, this affordable British jewellery brand loved by Kate Middleton has featured in almost every episode

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3 w. ago ‘I tried the cream bronzer Jaclyn Lemon wears in The White Lotus and now I'm ditching my powders'

If, like me, you've been patiently waiting every Monday for the new White Lotus episode to drop, then you'll be pleased to know that we've got the details on all the fashion and beauty moments from the show so far. One character in particular who has impeccable style is Jaclyn Lemon, played by Michelle Monaghan.

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3 w. ago The US government is effectively kidnapping people for opposing genocide | Moira Donegan

Rumeysa Ozturk, a visa holder, was snatched off the streets by Ice agents and sent to a detention center 1,000 miles away for opposing war crimes in GazaThe abductors wore masks because they do not want their identities known. On Tuesday evening, Rumeysa Ozturk exited her apartment building and walked on to the street in Somerville, Massachusetts – a city outside Boston – into the fading daylight. Ozturk, a Turkish-born PhD student at Tufts University who studies children’s media and childhood development, was on her way to an iftar dinner with friends, planning to break her Ramadan fast.In a video taken from a surveillance camera, she wears a pink hijab and a long white puffer coat against the New England cold. The first man, not uniformed but wearing plain clothes, as all the agents are, approaches her as if asking for directions. But he quickly closes in and grabs her by the wrists she has raised defensively toward her face. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Michelle Monaghan shuts down viral fan theory about White Lotus killer

‘Guys, the monkeys did not do it,’ says Michelle Monaghan, who plays actress Jaclyn Lemon

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last month Grab your logo sweatshirt – Gap is making a surprise fashion comeback

Dresses from 90s brand grace red carpet after rough patch in which brand closed stores and broke tie with Kanye WestThis year’s awards season brought a surprise fashion comeback: Gap. Everyone from Timothée Chalamet and Demi Moore to Cynthia Erivo and Anne Hathaway has worn the US high-street brand on the red carpet in the past year, and this month parent company Gap Inc released its most recent financial results – with sales up 7%.Joy Montgomery, commerce editor at Vogue, describes Hathaway’s decision to wear a luxe version of a white shirt dress later sold in store, which the actor wore to a Bulgari event last year – as “a moment that the fashion world sat up and realised that something was changing”. Continue reading...

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last month Amid fear and confusion in US immigrant communities, protest goes grassroots

Churches and non-profits are offering legal help, meals and workshops to people targeted by the Trump administrationOn Sundays, Juan Carlos Ruiz gives his sermons while wearing a white robe. Although his English- and Spanish-speaking congregants at a Brooklyn-based church may not notice it, the neck of his robe is ripped, the cloth frayed. When asked about the tear in his robe, Ruiz gives a charming smile, remembering his 2018 arrest.That year, during the first Trump administration, Ruiz was participating in a protest to prevent the deportation of a prominent New York immigration activist. As tensions flared, cops began to rough up some demonstrators. Ruiz attempted to intervene. He and 17 others were arrested by police; his white alb ripped during the struggle. Continue reading...

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