97 m. ago Florida's first black bear hunt in a decade approved despite strong opposition

The first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade takes place in December under a rule adopted Wednesday by state wildlife officials

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2 h. ago Girlfriend charged with murder nearly two decades after dismembered remains of woman found

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis called the case one of the most gruesome she’s ever seen

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2 h. ago Why do family holidays turn me into a sulky teenager again? | Nell Frizzell

It is August, so therefore I find myself in the midst of an intergenerational trip – and somehow unearthing a personality I thought I’d shed decades agoI am not one for aphorisms. I grew up with a water-stained copy of a dictionary of quotations by the toilet and, for the most part, by the toilet is where these things belong. But there is one saying by the American philosopher and yoga teacher Ram Dass that has always cheered me: “If you think you’re enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.”I have no idea if Ram Dass really said this. Just as I’m not sure if the Dalai Lama ever said: “Don’t let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.” Or whether Oscar Wilde believed the words he put into the mouth of Lord Illingworth in A Woman of No Importance: “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” But as someone in the middle of a family holiday, I can certainly attest that any delusions about maturity, le...

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2 h. ago France acknowledges role in repression of Cameroon independence movements

Emmanuel Macron writes to Cameroonian president with findings of joint commission on country’s colonial pastFrance has acknowledged its role in decades of violent repression of independence movements in Cameroon, the latest stage in a slow process of reckoning with its brutal colonial past.In a letter to the Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, dated 30 July, Emmanuel Macron said it was “up to me today to assume the role and responsibility of France in these events”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘Death always feels imminent’: a moving Netflix documentary on prison, music and forgiveness

In Songs from the Hole, a man convicted of murder when he was a teenager finds healing in music during his sentenceIn 2014, a sergeant at a California state prison sent James “JJ’88” Jacobs, who was 25 at the time, to “the hole” – solitary confinement in a 6-by-6 cell. One bunk, one strip of a window. Jacobs had already been incarcerated for a decade by then; at 15, he was given a double life sentence for second-degree murder. Alone in the hole, Jacobs thought, as he always did, about the most devastating month of his life, April 2004: on the 16th, he shot and killed a fellow teenager outside a nightclub in his home town of Long Beach, California. Three days later, another young man shot and killed his beloved older brother Victor. For years, Jacobs was caught in a terrible cycle of grief – for what he had done, for what had been done to him.In the hole, Jacobs would lie on the floor, eyes closed, and imagine his life outside prison. He’d make beats by pounding on his bunk or chest....

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3 h. ago Best beauty advent calendars for 2025, chosen by a beauty writer

The beauty calendar bonanza begins as advents launch for Christmas 2025

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3 h. ago Woman who refused to eat for the first decade of her life choked on her own vomit, inquest hears

Tia-Mae McCarthy, 21, from Fordingbridge, Hampshire, baffled doctors as a child with her refusal to eat, surviving on tube feeds until she was a teenager.

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4 h. ago Leo DiCaprio, 50, on dating as an older man: 'You have to risk being honest and having things fall apart because there's no time to waste'

As he covered Esquire UK 's Autumn issue Leo, look ahead towards the 'next few decades' with 'much more life behind than ahead of you.'

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4 h. ago Football Daily | Ref Cams: behold the era of football’s electronic all

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!When Football Daily were a lad and everything about football was much better, top-flight referees were able to go about their business unencumbered by nothing more hi-tech and new-fangled than a wrist-watch, a coin, a whistle, red and yellow cards, and a stubby little pencil they could’ve half-inched from the betting shop. Fast forward several decades and while the standard of officiating remains much the same, advances in the fields of both technology and vanishing foam dictate that Premier League refs are now forced to include spray cans, headsets and now body cameras on the list of items to be ticked off their pre-match checklists before they can lead teams out on to the pitch.As an Atlético member of 13 years standing, can I throw a few more comments into the mix of La Liga’s anti-fan policies (yesterday’s Football Daily)? Want to book flights and accommodation to Spain to catch a game? Oh wait, you won’t know the date or even t...

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5 h. ago Baltic foreign ministers: We know Russian occupation is never temporary

Land swaps and de facto annexation in Ukraine won’t bring peace and could lead to decades of brutal subjugation

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5 h. ago Leonardo DiCaprio at 50: ‘You don’t want to waste your time any more’

The Oscar-winning actor whose three-decade career includes acclaimed roles in Titanic, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Revenant, also revealed his biggest career regret

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5 h. ago AD FEATURE: Man City 2025/26 season preview: odds, prediction and transfers so far

Explore bet365's season odds, confirmed transfers and our writer's prediction for Manchester City's 2025/26 campaign as Pep Guardiola's side look to reclaim the Premier League title

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7 h. ago AD FEATURE: Manchester United 2025/26 season preview: odds, prediction and transfers so far

Explore bet365's season odds, confirmed transfers and our Manchester United writer's prediction for the 2025/26 campaign following Ruben Amorim's first pre-season

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7 h. ago Michelle Keegan makes explosive ITV return after decade with role alongside Hollywood star

Actress Michelle Keegan returns to ITV for the first time in eight years, starring as a detective in The Blame, a dark new psychological thriller

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8 h. ago Woman 'killed children and hid bodies in suitcase before mum spotted awful sign'

Corena Minjarez, 37, is accused of the 2018 killing of 5-year-old Jesus Dominguez Jr, and 3-year-old Yesenia Dominguez, and hiding their bodies for more than half a decade

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8 h. ago 'Everything here is great' The Times' glowing review of Wales 'world beating' restaurant scene

Times columnist and food writer Giles Coren has once again visited Wales to heap praise on our "world-beating restaurant scene."

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8 h. ago Emma Willis opens up about recent heart surgery after defect went unnoticed her whole life

Doctors discovered hole in presenter’s heart that had been there for almost five decades

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9 h. ago Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon: The secret to happiness? It’s not politics

Frankly is Nicola Sturgeon’s bid to “reveal the person behind the politician”. As she puts it, “The seemingly confident, combative woman who dominated Scottish politics for more than a decade, unnerved the Westminster establishment, helped lead Scotland to the verge of independence and steered it through a global pandemic, is painfully shy, an introvert.”

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9 h. ago The Trump administration has decided coal is female – here’s why | Arwa Mahdawi

What is really behind the US Department of Energy’s weird pronouncement on social media?Have you ever tossed and turned at night wondering what the correct pronouns are for a lump of coal? No, me neither. However, it seems someone at the US Department of Energy has devoted a few spare brain cells to this matter and decided that coal is a she/her.Co-opting a phrase adopted by the LGBTQ+ community, the official energy department X account tweeted on 31 July: “She’s an icon. She’s a legend. And she is the moment,” alongside a sparkling picture of coal. This comes as the Trump administration devotes considerable energy to making fossil fuels great again. The president has signed numerous executive orders aimed at “Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry” and reversed Biden-era pollution regulations on coal-fired power plants. These plants, according to a 2023 report, killed at least 460,000 Americans over the past two decades. Deaths declined when the environmental regula...

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10 h. ago Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones says 'this is the real me' as she delights fans with announcement

The actress and writer herself decided to confirm it was really her in a video

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