4 h. ago From matcha lattes to Dubai chocolate – how supermarkets fight to cope with TikTok trends

Food fads were once dictated by restaurants, now it is viral videos influencing stores what to stock and quicklyTikTok’s algorithm is one of the great mysteries of the modern age. What it deems to be interesting is fed to millions of users, giving it huge cultural sway, from fashion to music and politics. It is also increasingly influencing what we eat.Supermarkets were once the trendsetters, studying popular items on restaurant menus and recreating them on their shelves. Now the big shops are the ones being influenced, says Zoe Simons, a brand development chef at Waitrose. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago ‘I was sure salvation lay in art’: Marina Otero on death, dance and mental illness

The Argentinian choreographer, known for working out her traumas and neuroses on stage, is bringing her provocative new work, Kill Me, to AustraliaLong ago, Marina Otero decided she would film her life until she dies, as part of an attempt to understand her pain and her preoccupation with death. “I was sure that salvation lay in art,” she says. So when she suffered a mental breakdown in 2022, the Argentinian choreographer decided to keep recording.“It seemed interesting to me, recording the darkest parts of a person,” Otero tells Guardian over Zoom from Madrid, where she is based. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Sanction on Harvard's foreign students strikes at the heart of the university's global allure

For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement

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15 h. ago Get relief from hayfever symptoms with 36% off allergy tablets that have thousands of 5

Hayfever can make summer a misery, but one product that can help is on offer now, with a 90 pack of Allevia Allergy Tablets dropping in price by 36% at Amazon

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15 h. ago Urgent 'do not eat warning' slapped on popular health snack with allergy risk

THG Nutrition Limited, which manufactures the product, said the recall affected all batches of its 75g single cookies and box of 12 cookies which could pose a risk to allergy sufferers

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16 h. ago Humiliated Lorraine's absences have 'become a joke': Insiders reveal savage story of ITV bloodbath to KATIE HIND, truth about 'awful' show and why final blow was so 'mortifying for Lorraine'

ITV bosses - after telling staff of an impending bloodbath of cuts - called on just one of those present for an individual meeting. That person, of course, was Lorraine Kelly.

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16 h. ago Man 'driven by profit' spared jail over Rottweiler puppies kept in tiny bathroom

'Mr Lynch was clearly not a fit person to be owning animals'

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17 h. ago ‘First class’ Whitby holiday rental with ‘beautiful views’ a great base for exploring Yorkshire

We've found a beautiful two-person holiday apartment available to rent that comes highly recommended by previous guests - and it's just 10 minutes from the popular seaside town of Whitby

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17 h. ago Amanda Holden reveals family's view on bikini pics as she targets 'new marriage'

Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has joked she should marry her Heart Radio co-star Ashley Roberts as she's the perfect holiday companion and 'loves' her kids

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17 h. ago Robert Forster: ‘You improve as a person as you get older. I think that’s a fact’

The lauded singer-songwriter takes a wander along the Brisbane streets that formed him and the Go-BetweensWhen I meet former Go-Between Robert Forster at a cafe in the centre of Brisbane for a walk around his home town, it’s no surprise to see a book on the table in front of him. It is The Café With No Name, by Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler – a gift for his wife, Karin Bäumler.Forster picked it up, somewhat reluctantly, from a chain store. A great indie bookshop, he says, is “the one thing that I really miss in Brisbane – the thing that makes me go, this is not a world-class city”. He remembers a time when it was, but it’s not when you might think. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Inspirational Welsh rugby figure with terminal diagnosis honoured in the middle of toughest challenge yet

The former WRU commercial chief wasn't able to collect the award in person as he's currently rowing from Tenby to Cardiff

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19 h. ago ‘It’s changed me as a person’: College student detained for deportation after traffic stop speaks out

Ximena Arias-Cristobal says dropped charges after traffic arrest ‘opens more doors for me, so we will have to see what happens there’

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19 h. ago ‘Global red alert’: forest loss hits record high – and Latin America is the heart of the inferno

With little state support, villagers are left to battle wildfires armed with little more than shovels and bottles of water • Fires drove record loss of world’s forests last yearWildfires engulfed vast swathes of South America last year, devastating ecosystems, closing schools and grounding flights. With its worst fire season on record, Bolivia was especially hard hit. “We felt powerless and angry to be unable to protect what is ours,” says Isabel Surubí Pesoa.Surubí Pesoa was forced to migrate to the nearest town after the spring that fed her village in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands dried up after the fires and the drought that preceded it. “It’s very painful,” she says. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Jamie Theakston 'so pleased' cancer diagnosis came after his mum died

The 54-year-old co-presenter of the Heart Radio breakfast show was diagnosed with stage one laryngeal cancer

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20 h. ago ‘My legal work sows the seeds of my stories’: International Booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq

The author and activist, who was subject to a fatwa in 2000, has won the prestigious prize for translated fiction for her short stories about the lives of Muslim women. She and her translator Deepa Bhasthi explain how Heart Lamp’s themes ‘are universal’• ‘Radical translation’ of Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker prize‘Human beings and their basic nature are the same everywhere,” Banu Mushtaq says. “That is the intention of my writing. The theme is woman, the theme is marginalised people, the theme is to be a voice to the voiceless community.”Mushtaq, from the Karnataka region of southern India, has been “awake all night”, she says, as we speak on the morning after she won the International Booker prize in London for her book Heart Lamp. The prize is shared between Mushtaq and her translator Deepa Bhasthi, who is also present – and also had no sleep. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Former Wales rugby international Mark Jones dies aged 59 as tributes pour in

Mark Jones has passed away after suffering a heart attack in Qatar

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21 h. ago Jamie Theakston in tears as he tells Davina McCall of 'huge shock' of diagnosis

The Heart Radio DJ, 54, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of laryngeal cancer last year and subsequently underwent three operations

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22 h. ago Jeremy Clarkson shares 'stressful' symptoms before being 'close to death' in hospital dash

Jeremy Clarkson, 65, underwent heart surgery in October and had two stents fitted, but had no clue how ill he actually was as he was 'working very hard'

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23 h. ago Scientists pinpoint how many hours sleep will increase your risk of heart disease

A new study has shed light on exactly how a lack of sleep causes harm

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23 h. ago Beautiful pub will spark new life into the heart of this Welsh town, but it could have been so different

The Pencelli Hotel, which is rumoured to have been a favourite haunt of Hollywood royalty, has had a glamorous makeover - but it stood in ruin and faced a dull and predictable future

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