4 h. ago Lost Salvador Dalí painting bought for £150 sold at auction for £45,700

Illustration of ‘old sultan’ by surrealist artist found at a house clearance sale by Cambridge antiques dealerTo the untrained eye, it looks more like an alien has landed on Chewbacca’s head than a masterpiece by Salvador Dalí.But the watercolour and felt-tip painting – bought two years ago for £150 – has been sold at auction for £45,700, after it was identified as a lost illustration of an “old sultan” by the great surrealist artist. Continue reading...

Economics

5 h. ago Scotland’s Town of the Year with historic churches, Alien gargoyles and an iconic pattern

The town has grown with new homes, businesses, a modern school, and a renovated museum, and was once shortlisted for UK City of Culture.

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7 h. ago Experts warn Halloween fancy dress accessory can cause blindness

Studies have found unauthorised dyes and other substances in cosmetic contact lenses

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14 h. ago Britney Spears' ex Kevin Federline claims 'terrified' sons cut contact with star after 'shocking' behavior

Federline, 47, alleged that their boys, Sean Preston, 20, Jayden James, 19, are 'terrified' and that one of them expressed fears that 'mom is going to die.'

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14 h. ago It's not entirely out of reach to be an Isa millionaire, says LEE BOYCE

Earlier in the month, a reader got in contact to tell us, in rather modest fashion, that he had become an Isa millionaire at the ripe old age of 36.

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14 h. ago Down Cemetery Road to Jimmy Carr’s Am I the A**hole? The seven best shows to stream this week

Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson team up in the cracking new thriller from Slow Horses creator Mick Herron, and Jimmy Carr’s new comedy will draw gasps by the minute. Plus: there’s a new Witcher!When a gas main explodes in a quiet Oxford street it initially comes as a merciful respite from the awkward dinner party being hosted by Sarah Tucker (Ruth Wilson). But soon, the fallout from the explosion becomes more disconcerting. Sarah (by day, a bored art historian) turns detective when an attempt to deliver a card to a child injured in the blast drags her into a conspiracy; soon she’s in cahoots with Emma Thompson’s spiky PI Zoe Boehm and getting entirely out of her depth. As befits a thriller adapted from a novel by Slow Horses creator Mick Herron, it’s an enjoyably astringent, increasingly nervy mixture of edgewalking intrigue and unsentimental, pitch-black humour. Apple TV, from Wednesday 29 October Continue reading...

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22 h. ago New planet is one of the best ever hopes for seeing alien life, scientists say

Less than 20 light years away, we could soon be able to directly image the ‘super Earth’

Science

26 h. ago Mystery object hurtling towards Earth behaves just like an 'alien spacecraft', experts say

Theoretical physicist Avi Loeb has warned it could be an 'extraterrestrial artefact' which may be about to make first contact as it was seen 'braking' and 'shedding'

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29 h. ago PM personally intervenes to contact grooming gang victims as ex

The government said Jess Phillips has the ‘full backing of the prime minister and home secretary’ insisting she will stay in post

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33 h. ago If Tebas had only listened he might have got his La Liga game abroad | Sid Lowe

In an embarrassing climbdown, the game in Miami is off with the league having alienated the players and even Villarreal, the club that was on its sideIf there is a moment that defined La Liga’s fourth failed attempt to play in Miami, an image to explain why everything went wrong, it may have been the moment it was all over. On Tuesday night, Spanish television broadcast reaction to the news from the Estadio de la Ceràmica, live and unfiltered.Cameras caught someone else who felt dismissed and disrespected, treated as if they didn’t count. This time it was someone who was supposed to be on the league’s side, but now appeared as a portrait of poor planning and poorer communication, a lack of consideration that pushed the project to collapse. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Halloween warning over fancy dress accessory that can cause infections and ulcers

The complications range from mild symptoms such as dryness, itching and irritation to more serious ones like scarring and loss of vision

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35 h. ago 'Gunman who triggered school lockdown and left pupils ‘hysterical & sobbing’ was a boy in fancy dress

Officers are in contact with the young boy and his family

Culture

36 h. ago The Immortalists by Aleks Krotoski review – the downsides of cheating death

Life extensionists like Bryan Johnson want to live forever. But at what cost?If the name Bryan Johnson isn’t familiar, a picture of him might be. He is the somewhat alien-looking, strangely ageless 48-year-old Californian battling to defy death itself.His efforts to do so have involved receiving a transfusion of blood plasma from his then 17-year-old son, an act that attracted headlines around the world, while Johnson’s own plasma was in turn transfused into his father. What was largely missed, but is documented in Alex Krotoski’s book, is that the procedure was deemed to be a failure. The tech entrepreneur will have to find another way to live for ever. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago I can't cash £80k insurance policy unless I find my accountant from 50 years ago: CRANE ON THE CASE

I only met him a few times, have no contact details for him and don't even know if he is alive or dead. What can I do?

Economics

48 h. ago Illegal alien who rammed federal agents was HONORED and presented with framed accolade by LA for targeting ICE

Mexican national Carlitos Ricardo Parias, 44, of South Los Angeles , has been charged with assault on a federal officer after he tried to escape arrest on Tuesday.

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58 h. ago 'Alien attack' could happen soon so take holidays before October 29, boffin warns

Telescopes have been tracking a mysterious, Manhattan-sized object as it hurtles through space since July and one boffin believes it could be alien technology set to strike Earth

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2 d. ago Sick sex messages school teacher sent to girl, 14 – but then he learned the truth

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: The man contacted the girl on Snapchat, telling her he was 18, before asking to be her boyfriend and offering to buy her anything she wanted

Politics

3 d. ago Durham failure to contact abuse victims ‘a matter of concern’, review finds

Michael Strange has previously been convicted of 34 separate offences against 10 victims between 1993 and 2004.

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3 d. ago Revealed: How Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth considered using 'dubious' criminal contacts to punish con man who embezzled his fortune

Forsyth spoke to the BBC just weeks before his death in June, for a documentary that airs tonight. He told how he was 'too trusting' of tycoon Roger Levitt.

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3 d. ago Southport inquiry hears of delays in attacker’s autism diagnosis

Axel Rudakubana’s teacher contacted the autism service to say they needed help, the Southport Inquiry heard.

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