1 hour ago Sting praises 'beautiful' adaptation of song in Netflix hit series Adolescence

Adolescence - which stars Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham - launched last month on Netflix and musician Sting has now addressed one of his songs being used in it

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3 h. ago ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children

Discovery that clinics have been breaking rules raises genetic risks in such a small, densely populated countryAt least 85 sperm donors in the Netherlands have fathered 25 or more children, the national gynaecology and obstetrics organisation has said, after a new registration system showed fertility clinics have been breaking existing rules on sperm donation for decades.The NVOG said on Monday that some clinics had deliberately used sperm batches more than 25 times, exchanged sperm without the necessary paperwork or donors’ knowledge, and allowed the same donors to donate sperm at multiple clinics. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago ‘Mental health is real’: Kyren Lacy’s father shares emotional tribute after son’s apparent suicide

The former LSU receiver, 24, died in an apparent suicide in his car while being pursued by authorities in Houston over the weekend

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5 h. ago British man and teenager drown in incident near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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6 h. ago What should I do if I see an Asian Hornet and how can I tell if it is one?

The yellow-legged hornet can kill 50 honey bees a day

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6 h. ago When is Eubank Jr vs Benn? Fight date, time, undercard and how to watch on TV

The British rivals will clash more than three decades after their fathers settled their own bitter grudge

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7 h. ago British 'father and son', 46 and 17, drown while swimming at Australian tourist beach

Three people were reportedly swept out to sea on Sunday afternoon at Round Hill Head at 1770 in Queensland , sparking a major emergency service response with a helicopter deployed.

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7 h. ago Sting fans only just realising how Police frontman got iconic stage name

Sting, real name Gordon Sumner, is one of the most famous musicians ever, but some of his fans are only just learning how the Police frontman landed his stage name

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7 h. ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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7 h. ago Major ancient Egyptian town is discovered after 3,400 years: Settlement may have been built by Tutankhamun's FATHER, archaeologists say

The new settlement has been found at Kom el-Nugus in northern Egypt, about 27 miles (43 km) west of Alexandria.

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8 h. ago Music can lift mood, foster community and even rewire brains – but does it need to have a purpose?

The therapeutic role music can play is the focus of a string of new books and even an entire BBC radio station. But why can’t we just listen to music for music’s sake?Growing up, I never questioned the intrinsic value of classical music. My father practising classical and jazz guitar was the aural wallpaper to my childhood, and at my rural state school I took lessons on the recorder, the violin, the cello, the trombone, the piano. The after-school clubs on offer included, somewhat implausibly, an ocarina ensemble. Music was art, and wasn’t art the point of it all, when you got right down to it? The reason to live, after we cater for all our basic needs? It was certainly what led me to become first a classical musician, and then a music historian.But when my dad died unexpectedly in 2019, it threw my relationship with music into sharp relief. All of a sudden, I couldn’t bear listening to it. It was too painful, or it grated on my nerves and made me angry. I started to question how an...

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8 h. ago Killed, dismembered and scattered: the Honduran father and son who made a stand against illegal logging

The country is the most deadly to be an environmental activist – and the brutal murders of Juan Bautista Silva and Juan Antonio Hernández are the latest in a long line of violent acts against defendersAt about 6pm on Wednesday 26 February, Ana Luiza Hernández Raudelez saw her partner, Juan Bautista Silva, 70, receive a phone call. A land defender who had spent more than 20 years working for the local environment, Silva was preparing to leave on a motorcycle trip to photograph illegal logging near Las Botijas, in Comayagua, central Honduras, to support a complaint to the prosecutor’s office.As he was about to set off, Ana suggested he take their son, Juan Antonio Hernández, 20, with him, as his new mobile phone took better photos. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago British man and teenager drown after being swept out to sea in Australia

Victims understood to be father and son pulled from ocean in holiday town of Seventeen Seventy

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9 h. ago British father, 29, on his stag do in Benidorm dies after collapsing in a bar in front of his father and friends

The father-of-one, 29, from Halifax, was enjoying drinks at the Funky Flamingo bar on March 22 when tragedy struck, sparking a major response from emergency services

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9 h. ago ‘Beautifully, awfully funny’: why Withnail and I is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of comfort movies is a pick for Bruce Robinson’s cult British comedyIn the words of its writer and director, Withnail and I is a comedy that “doesn’t know it’s funny”. To its star, it’s about “the nobility of failure”. It ends with its title character alone in the rain, his one friend gone, delivering a Hamlet soliloquy to an indifferent wolf. It’s my feelgood movie.Bruce Robinson’s British classic was released in 1987. He and Richard E Grant made the remarks above in 2007, at the British Film Institute. I was there, eager to hear Robinson discuss a movie based on his own experience. Themes abide. As he said recently about The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, his imperishable novel about his brutal childhood: “It’s very funny but also sad as fuck.” Robinson’s first film was a novel before it was a screenplay. At the BFI, he said he knew he’d got his film right at an early screening, when a “girl sort of threw up, laughing”. She had a point. Withna...

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9 h. ago Kate Garraway offers rare update on personal life as she replaces Lorraine Kelly

Good Morning Britain star Kate Garraway has opened up about her children, Darcey and Billy, 15 months after the death of their father Derek Draper

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9 h. ago David Bowie's daughter Lexi Jones insists she's 'not a copy' of her famous father in defiant message as she releases debut album

The late singer's only daughter Lexi, 24, real name Alexandria Zahra Jones, has teased her new music on her Instagram throughout last week.

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12 h. ago Elynn was a perfect, healthy baby. But her dad's horrifying action means she'll never live a normal life

A mom says her daughter has been left disabled after the girl's father deliberately dropped their baby to get her to 'stop her crying' - fracturing her skull and causing a devastating brain injury.

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12 h. ago Sting fans only just learning how The Police frontman got his stage name

Sting, real name Gordon Sumner, is one of the most successful musicians of all time – but even some dedicated fans are unaware of how he got his iconic stage name

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12 h. ago A new start after 60: I had a breakdown, the old me died – and I cried for the first time in my life

David Williams lost his mother, his marriage fell apart and he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. But it took one more blow to bring him to tearsDavid Williams was 17 when his mother died of cancer. But he didn’t cry when his mum’s friend knocked on the door in the dead of night to give him and his sisters the news. He was the eldest of three, “the adult male” as his father had left years earlier.Instead, he bottled up his feelings and carried on working. Williams, now 61, says: “Something happens to you in that situation that isn’t your choice.” This was 1980, and the family lived on the Lache social housing estate in Chester, which was, he says, “a tough place. Lads didn’t go around crying.”Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60? Continue reading...

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