45 m. ago Big Brother legend remains extremely recognisable two decades on from reality stint

As Big Brother 2025 comes to an end, we've taken a look at one iconic former housemate

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54 m. ago Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film

Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prisonIt started as a trawl of dusty archives for an academic project about female Irish emigrants in Canada and the US by two history professors, a worthy but perhaps niche topic for research.The subjects, after all, were human flotsam from Ireland’s diaspora whose existence was often barely recorded, let alone remembered. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Camilla and Kate's united front: Queen shared 'warm' chat with Princess of Wales during Remembrance Sunday service, body language expert claims

Members of the Royal Family, including Queen Camilla and the Princess of Wales, led the nation in a two-minute silence at the Cenotaph in London to commemorate those who died in conflict.

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1 hour ago I’m a committed introvert – but no AI will take away the joy I get from other people | Emma Beddington

While it might be soothing to think you could replace social interactions like book clubs with ChatGPT, subcontracting human thought out to a bot will never bring happiness This is depressing: according to the Cut, people are using AI to solve escape room puzzles and cheat at trivia nights. Surely, that is the definition of spoiling your own fun? “Like going into a corn maze and just wanting a straight line to the end,” says one TikToker quoted in the article. There’s also an interview with a keen reader who uses ChatGPT as a book club replacement, scraping the internet and aggregating “stimulating opinions and perspectives”. All well and good (actually, no, it sounds bleak as hell) until he had a character’s death spoilered in the fantasy epic he had been enjoying.Meanwhile, Substack seems to be clogging up with AI-generated essays. The nu-blogging platform is an earnestly artisanal space where writers craft their stuff; subcontracting that to a bot seems like the acme of pointless...

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2 h. ago California’s drying Salton Sea harms the lungs of people living nearby, say researchers

Experts suspect that dust from the sea contains endotoxic bacteria membranes caused by fertilizer runoffChemical-laden dust from southern California’s drying Salton Sea is likely harming the lungs of people around the shrinking body of water, and the effects are especially pronounced in children, new peer-reviewed research from the University of California, Irvine, shows.A separate peer-reviewed study from the University of California, Riverside, also found the Salton Sea’s contaminated dust seemed to alter lung microbiome, which could trigger pulmonary issues that have been reported around the lake. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago London theatre is reported to the Equality and Human Rights Commission over Jewish

The Jewish Community Council (JCC) have asked the EHRC to probe the Troxy, alleging the theatre has taken an 'anti-Jewish' policy since the October 7 attacks

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3 h. ago Peter Andre reveals how wife Emily copes with his romance scenes after he kickstarted an acting career

In his new Channel 5 show, Peter's character George strikes up a will they/won't they romance with a co-star, with viewers desperate to know if they'll finally bite the bullet and share their first kiss.

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3 h. ago Russell Crowe clarifies girlfriend’s age difference after ‘fictional’ claims

‘If two people love each other, age doesn't matter,’ Oscar-winning actor says

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3 h. ago Ruben Amorim's Benjamin Sesko message as he left press conference with solution 'expensive'

Manchester United have been dealt a blow with fears growing over Benjamin Sesko's injury after he was forced to come off during the 2-2 draw against Tottenham Hotspur

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3 h. ago ‘Too far? I don’t think we’ve gone far enough!’ The founder of Peta on gruesome stunts and her bloody fight for animal rights

After 45 years as chief fake blood thrower, Ingrid Newkirk is still waging war on everything from leather to cashmere. Is she still relevant?Ingrid Newkirk was 54 when she thought she was going to die in a plane crash. It was late summer and the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) was flying from Minneapolis in the US to the company HQ in Norfolk, Virginia when her plane encountered strong wind shear. The pilot attempted an emergency landing, but failed; back up they went.On the third attempt, with “a teaspoon of fuel” in the tank, he finally got the plane down safely. During those moments, Newkirk, now 76, scribbled a will on a napkin. She has tweaked it over the years, but it still reads like a horror movie prop list: her liver is to be sent to France to be made into foie gras, her skin to Hermès to create a handbag and her lips to whichever US president is in power, to shame them for granting a “patronising” pardon to a turkey each Thanksgiving. As wills...

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3 h. ago ‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation

What do Swift and Plath have in common, and should Kamala Harris have spoken out about her political ambitions? The Argonauts author turns her lens on poetry, pop and patriarchyMaggie Nelson is an unapologetic Taylor Swift fan. She knows the discography, drops song lyrics into conversation and tells me she took her family to the Vancouver leg of the Eras tour. So she’s a dyed-in-the-wool Swiftie? Nelson seems not entirely comfortable with the breathless connotations of that term but yes, the love is real. So much so, she has written a book about the billionaire singer-songwriter, or rather, a joint analysis of Swift and Sylvia Plath, who recurs in much of Nelson’s oeuvre.The notion of uniting these two cultural titans, who are seemingly poles apart in sensibility – one a melancholic American poet, the other an all-American poster girl – came to her when she heard Swift’s 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department. Alongside its literary references to F Scott Fitzgerald...

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4 h. ago I met the man who can fix your body odour, fertility issues and even get you a girlfriend. He's the master acupuncturist beloved by the A

Gerad Kite is used to famous faces walking into his Central London acupuncture clinic.Spice Girl Mel C and Radiohead's Ed O'Brien are clients.

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4 h. ago Prince Harry acts like Meghan's 'personal bodyguard' when entering Kris Jenner's 70th birthday party, body language expert claims

Talking to The Daily Mail, UK body language expert Judi James explained that Harry longed to protect his wife from paparazzi, taking a serious approach, and allowing the attention to be on a 'radiant' Meghan.

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4 h. ago A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit

Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realizeA young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges dressing down the Trump administration and ruling against it time after time after time, in response to the blizzard of lawsuits filed by human rights and environmental groups, states, cities and individuals. A senator speaking nonstop for 25 hours and another flying to El Salvador to find out what happened to his kidnapped constituent. The biggest day of protest in US history as an estimated 7 million people showed up for No Kings on 18 October in small towns and red counties as well as big blue cities.Weekly protests at Tesla salesrooms earlier this year that succeeded in damaging the brand, depressing global sales and prompting Tesla CEO Elon Musk to retreat from his Doge slash-and-burn project. Federal workers resisting sometimes...

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5 h. ago Princess Eugenie's future 'under threat unless she makes strategic choice'

Princess Eugenie is a co-founder of a human trafficking charity, a cause that she has long been dedicated to, but her work could be "under threat" amid the scandal surrounding her parents Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, an expert claims

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5 h. ago Novels I haven’t finished reading are piling up by my bedside. What if that’s a good thing? | Hanna Thomas Uose

Authors are sounding warnings about the length of the modern attention span, but my series of abandonments is a sign of something elseThis is embarrassing, but here goes. There are five novels beside my bed, all partially read. On my phone, I am partway through 36 audiobooks, which pales in comparison to the 46 ebooks I have abandoned on my Kindle. This doesn’t count the growing pile of advance copies beside my coffee table, vying for blurbs, now that I am a published novelist myself.At first glance, these stats seem to corroborate Ian Rankin’s words. Commenting a fortnight ago on how easy it is to lose a reader’s focus, when it is fragmented by social media and the news cycle, the writer said: “Maybe as people’s attention spans change the literature will have to change with them.” But as someone who used to doggedly finish whatever I was reading, I now consider it a human right to put down a book that I’m not in the mood for.Hanna Thomas Uose is a writer and strategist. She is the ...

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5 h. ago Miss Universe host’s reign of chaos turns ‘greatest celebration’ into global embarrassment

After triggering a beauty queen walkout, then later bursting into tears and issuing a toe-curling apology, has Miss Universe host Nawat Itsaragrisil dealt the world of beauty pageants a fatal blow?

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6 h. ago I’m an extreme body modifier with elf ears, horns & inked EYEBALLS I’m planning to turn my privates into work of art

A TATTOOIST who injects ink directly into people’s eyeballs has revealed his next shocking plan - to turn his privates into a masterpiece. Alexander Cabrera, an extreme body modifier from Uruguay, already has elf ears, horn-like implants in his head, full-face tattoos and inked eyeballs - and says he’s only just getting started. The tattoo...

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6 h. ago Building evacuated by police after man's dead body found inside flat in Glasgow

The man’s body was found inside a flat in Glasgow

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6 h. ago Russell Crowe clarifies age difference with girlfriend after false claims

‘If two people love each other, age doesn't matter,’ Oscar-winning actor says

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