3 d. ago ‘I was like a tornado going through men’s lives’: meet the people who can’t stop getting married

From the divorce lawyer on wedding eight to the 85-year-old in love with bride five – the hopeless romantics who keep saying ‘I do’Forty-two per cent of the married couples you know are destined to divorce, according to the latest UK statistics, but we still buy into the idea that a wedding is a happy ending. The story we like to tell, culturally, about romantic love is straightforward: that there is just one person out there for everyone, and that, once you have found that person, you will be happy every day until one of you is dead. So what about people who rack up multiple marriages? The famous stories tend to have a whiff of madness and glamour about them. There is Elizabeth Taylor, who was married eight times (twice to Richard Burton). The other, bloodier, example that springs to mind is Henry VIII.To be married and divorced multiple times requires a strange mixture of romanticism and practicality about love. Saying “until death do u...

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3 d. ago Liverpool predicted XI for Community Shield vs Crystal Palace as Arne Slot starts new stars

Liverpool and Crystal Palace will meet at Wembley on Sunday for the Community Shield and a number of new big-money signings could feature for the Premier League champions

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4 d. ago Trump says he will meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska next Friday – US politics live

President posts on Truth Social that meeting with Russian counterpart will take place in AlaskaTexas house meets without necessary number of lawmakersAccording to new reporting by the New York Times, the president has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against certain Latin American drug cartels that the Trump administration considers terrorist organizations.According to the Times’ sources, US military officials have started drawing up options for how the military could go after the group. The Times also notes that this escalation would be the most “aggressive step” in the administration’s “campaign against cartels”. They also noted that this continues the president’s preference for using “military forces to carry out what has primarily been considered a law enforcement responsibility to curb the flow of fentanyl and other illegal drugs”. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Donald Trump to meet Putin with Zelensky for face to face Ukraine peace talks

Donald Trump could hold an in-person meeting with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky as attempts to bring the war in Ukraine to and end continue

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6 d. ago LIVE: Donald Trump to meet Putin with Zelensky for face to face Ukraine peace talks

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7 d. ago Meet teen star dubbed 'next Mohamed Salah' who made Chelsea ban Liverpool scouts

Rio Ngumoha is a prodigious talent and the 16-year-old sensation who wowed Liverpool fans at Anfield is believed to have once caused Chelsea to ban Reds scouts

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8 d. ago Gen Z has brought us the 6pm dinner – and I am not ready for it | Polly Hudson

Early evening restaurant bookings are on the rise. Great for commuters and sleep purists, but what about the rest of us?Whenever I arrange dinner with one particular friend, we haggle. The date and venue are easy to sort out, but when it comes to what time we should convene, it’s always a lengthy negotiation. I make snide “jokes” about Grandma’s Earlybird Special, she reminds me we do not live in Spain, and slowly we meet in the middle, where neither of us is happy. Now it turns out that by wanting to have dinner at 6pm, she is extremely fashionable.Curses! Continue reading...

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France are looking to break new ground against the eight-time champions Germany

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Viral footage allegedly caught married Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his company’s Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot, in an embrace.

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