83 m. ago Russian spies have links to illegal migration smuggling gangs, reports claim

Bulgaria’s equivalent of the home secretary said there was evidence that Russia’s foreign intelligence agency had direct links with the gangs.

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3 h. ago Influencer dies in home birth tragedy after 'extremely rare complication'

Stacey Hatfield, a Melbourne based nutritionist who built up a large following on social media with her recipes for healthy food, has tragically died following a home birth

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4 h. ago King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’

Australian band’s decision to remove catalogue in protest of CEO’s military investments an easy one, frontman says, and making music with friends remains ‘top of the triangle’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOver their mind-boggling 15-year, 27-album career, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have switched gears with the speed and abandon of a stunt driver in a Fast and Furious film. Can you even describe the six-piece as a psychedelic rock band any more?Their music to date has encompassed metal, folk, jazz and dance music; they have experimented with dense concept records and microtonal tunings, and this year they’ve been touring both an orchestral show and a rave show, alongside residencies in European prisons and amphitheatres.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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5 h. ago We wear Aberfan on our shirts with pride and want to honour the history of our village

Aberfan FC marked 59 years since the Aberfan disaster, which claimed the lives of 116 children and 28 adults

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6 h. ago Illegal mountainside rave near Welsh village 'drove us nuts for hours'

South Wales Police said that officers remain at the scene

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6 h. ago Patient with tummy ache leaves doctors speechless as they find strange object in stomach

Doctors initially tried to remove the bizarre collection of metal objects using endoscopy, but were forced to perform a three-hour operation to get everything out

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7 h. ago I spent over £250,000 creating my dream home but now it's time to leave

Rebecca Porter transformed a period mansion into a comfortable family home in a village in Bridgend

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7 h. ago Woman cut from car as three rushed to hospital following crash

Emergency services were called in the early hours of the morning

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7 h. ago Massive fire at major airport with all flights suspended after horror blaze

A massive fire broke out at the cargo village of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Saturday afternoon, forcing a suspension of all flight operations for nearly seven hours

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7 h. ago United States Grand Prix makes major announcement just hours before F1 race

F1 has been visiting the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas for the United States Grand Prix in every season except the Covid-hit 2020 campaign since 2012

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8 h. ago Christmas killers film themselves opening family's gifts before pouncing

Kaye and Rolf Tiede drove their family to a picture-perfect cabin stay in the mountains just three days before Christmas Day but were unaware that two men were waiting inside.

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8 h. ago Illegal rave on Welsh mountain 'drives locals nuts' for hours

South Wales Police said that officers remain at the scene

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9 h. ago Migrant who piloted inflatable boat carrying 50 people across Channel while wearing Bat Man t

Illegal immigrant Nader Osman Adam has been jailed for piloted a small boat across the English Channel crammed with fellow migrants while wearing a Batman T-shirt.

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9 h. ago Man charged with murder of his wife found stabbed to death in east London

Officers were called to an address in Cranham Road, Hornchurch, in the early hours of Saturday

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9 h. ago Woman, 40, ‘stabbed to death at home’ as her husband is charged with murder

Cops were called to the horror incident in the early hours of Saturday morning by Paramedics who had battled in vein to save Agne's life, but she tragically died at the scene

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9 h. ago The rise of the sleep data nerds: ‘The harder you try, the harder it is to sleep’

Wearable sleep trackers may help you measure hours asleep but experts ask how accurate they are, how useful the data is and even what good sleep looks likeThe first thing Annie and her partner do when they wake up in the morning is ask each other how well they slept. “And I literally say, ‘I’m not sure yet, let me check,’” – and Annie, a chief people and safety officer, reaches for her smartwatch.Annie started monitoring because she worried she wasn’t getting enough good-quality sleep. Now she’s a self-confessed sleep data “nerd”, mining her sleep data for insights into her general health and wellbeing, using it to inform lifestyle decisions and even occasionally to guide how much she aims to accomplish in a day.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Sixteen people who entered UK illegally deported to France under returns deal

Over 36,000 people have crossed the Channel so far this year

Economics

10 h. ago Police looking into claims Prince Andrew asked officer to find information on Virginia Giuffre

Leaked emails suggest Andrew passed accuser’s details to Met bodyguard hours before bombshell photo came to lightThe Metropolitan police are looking into claims that Prince Andrew asked his taxpayer-funded close protection officer to uncover information about Virginia Giuffre hours before the emergence of a bombshell picture of them together.Leaked emails that suggest Andrew passed his Met bodyguard Giuffre’s date of birth and confidential US social security number were “deeply concerning”, said a government minister on Sunday. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago The quaint Cotswolds village where locals need permission to paint their front doors black

The idyllic Cotswolds village of Snowshill, with its higgledy-piggledy honey-colored stone cottages, has had new planning rules implemented.

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10 h. ago The blood pressure secret: everything you need to know to improve yours – and live a longer, healthier life

It is known as ‘the silent killer’, because many people suffer from high blood pressure without even being aware of it. Here is where your numbers should be, and how to change them for the betterThe older you get, and the more obsessed with your health, the more it feels as if life comes down to numbers: how many more years you can expect; your lean body mass; your percentage of visceral fat; how dense your bones are; how many kilos you can squat; how long you can deadhang; how often you still do it; your levels of LDL and HDL cholesterol; your resting heart rate; your overnight blood oxygen level; how quickly you can run; how many steps you do in a day; how many hours you sleep; how fast you are shrinking; how often you get up to pee.I say you, of course, but what I mean is me. I fixate on all those things and more. Do you want to know my vascular age as calculated by my smart scales? I will tell you. The point is that some of these numbers matter more than others. And one that def...

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