5 h. ago How Barack and Michelle Obama were 'awkward' and 'anxious' during frank discussion about divorce rumors

Barack and Michelle Obama appeared to put on a united front when the former president appeared on his wife's podcast - but a body language expert has revealed there is more than meets the eye.

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5 h. ago Girelli double sends Italy to Euro 2025 last four as Hegerberg misses spot

Jubilant Italy reached their first major women’s tournament semi-final since 1997 as Cristiana Girelli’s 90th-minute header beat a Norway side who had seen their captain Ada Hegerberg miss a crucial penalty earlier in the second half.Norway, managed by the former Wales coach Gemma Grainger, were disappointing for the first hour of the contest but appeared to be the stronger side in the latter stages after equalising through Hegerberg’s low finish in normal play, before Girelli’s back-post header won the game with her second goal of the match and sent the Italians wild. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago I lost six stone on Mounjaro after gorging on entire pizzas and drinking five cans of Coca

George Keywood, from London, became pre-diabetic and was struggling to walk upstairs when he began taking the weight loss drug last year.

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7 h. ago Trump's Epstein excuse crumbles as forensics discover THREE MINUTES of missing video footage

Forensic experts have discovered that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from the 'full raw' video of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in prison that the FBI presented to squash conspiracies last week.

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8 h. ago Nick Cannon, father of 12 with six women, slammed over relationship podcast announcement

‘Nick Cannon @ Night’ is set to premiere later this month

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9 h. ago Girls gone bad: Lena Dunham’s Too Much is just not good enough

The creator of the seminal HBO hit has followed up with an underbaked Netflix background watch, a crushing disappointment for her ardent fanbaseThere is one TV show that has been enjoyed most often, and most reliably, among my cohort in New York: Girls, the seminal HBO dramedy about Brooklyn’s downwardly mobile and highly self-important creative class of the 2010s. Though a cultural lightning rod when it aired from 2012 until 2017 – its whiteness, convincing narcissism, frank sexuality and frequent nudity all catnip for the cresting blogosphere and cyclical moral panic – Girls has rightfully settled into its status as one of the best television series of the 21st century, a foundational text for millennials as well as a biting satire of solipsistic, Obama-era striving. (Although viewers too young to remember it as anything other than canon now see the girls’ flailing – their freedom to wear terrible prints, listen to Vampire Weekend and be earnest – as something to be envied rather ...

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9 h. ago BMW driver kills mum and daughter in Boxing Day crash while racing another car

Mohammed Ibrahim was travelling at over 80mph in a 30mph zone when he lost control of his BMW 420 and smashed head-on with an MG, killing Amanda Riley, 49, and her mum Linda Philips, 72

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10 h. ago 'Huge 80s star stages astonishing comeback after shock realisation about world'

The godfather of alternative comedy Alexei Sayle has lost none of his Marxist zeal or rage against the establishment – and says his firebrand act is needed more than ever to resist what he calls an “assault on free speech and comedy”.

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10 h. ago Sporting CP vs Celtic LIVE as the first 45 minutes finishes goalless in the Algarve

It's the final leg of the Portugal pre-season tour as the Primeira Liga and Premiership champions meet at the Estadio Algarve

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11 h. ago Keir Starmer removes Labour whip from four ‘persistent rebel’ MPs

Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff pushed out and three trade envoys lose rolesUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has removed the Labour whip from four MPs for repeatedly breaching discipline and stripped three further Labour MPs of their trade envoy roles in an effort to assert his control over the party.The Guardian understands that the four MPs who have lost the whip are Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff. They were informed on Wednesday afternoon and told their positions would be kept under review. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Kilmarnock fire: Glasgow dad 'lost everything' as he watched life project Kilmarnock cafe burn to the ground

The Kilmarnock cafe owner was alerted to the fire by one of his customers.

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11 h. ago Bride leaves her groom and guests to have a haircut in the middle of her wedding day

Within a 30-minute window, newlywed Elly frantically touched up her makeup while George Curran - the stylist behind Sofia Richie 's bob - chopped her locks

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11 h. ago Man flouts 'no sex' advice after hair transplant and ends up regretting it

Ruben Owen, 24, flew out to Turkey to get a hair transplant. But instead of listening to the doctors who put him on a sex ban, he romped shortly after the procedure

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12 h. ago Barack Obama addresses divorce rumors with ‘touch and go’ joke on Michelle’s podcast

Divorce rumors between Barack and Michelle first started in January when she did not attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral

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12 h. ago Brits being caught short by a lack of public toilets with some waiting 150 minutes to wee

London is one place where loos are closest to each other but on average visitors still have to walk for 19 minutes before they come across one

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12 h. ago Bono says he lived on instant mash and airplane food as a teenager after his mother died

‘Thinking back to being a teenager, food was just fuel,’ Bono told River Café’s Ruthie Rogers

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12 h. ago Barack Obama addresses divorce rumours as wife Michelle brings him to tears

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have addressed speculation about their marriage, following rumours that they were heading for divorce, on the latest episode of her podcast

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13 h. ago Barack and Michelle Obama finally address divorce speculation in astonishing joint sit

The former President of the United States, 63, was a guest on his wife's podcast IMO with the pair wasting no time in addressing the rumors of their separation.

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13 h. ago Hunter Biden says Democrats lost 2024 election because they weren’t loyal to his father

Democrats chose to elevate former vice president Kamala Harris over former president Joe Biden for the Democratic ticket, throwing the party into momentary chaos

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13 h. ago Hunt for bear that bit man in Norway to resume after wrong animal shot

Anger deepens among animal rights campaigners as court rules hunt can go ahead despite officials killing wrong bearThe hunt for a brown bear that bit a man on the elbow can resume, a Norwegian court has ruled, deepening anger among animal rights campaigners after officials shot the wrong bear.The Norwegian environment agency issued a bear-culling order in late June in Jarfjord, near the border with Russia, after a female bear bit a man’s arm and left him needing stitches. The decision caused outrage after nature inspectors who were tracking her lost the trail and killed a male bear by mistake. Continue reading...

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