6 h. ago Italians named best lovers in the world but Brits need to look away now

Brits didn't come quite as high in the rankings as they would have hoped with pizza and pasta fuelled Italians claiming the title for being the best nation in bed

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63 h. ago World's best lovers, revealed: Italians top the global league, while Brits lag behind

A new study has lifted the lid on which nation performs best in the bedroom - and it's bad news for Brits.

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3 d. ago 'I visited world's first IKEA hotel and one detail left me gobsmacked'

A British travel lover visited IKEA's first boutique hotel in the Canary Islands – and he had nothing but praise for the furniture giant's new enterprise. One aspect really stood out too

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3 d. ago Liverpool to accept staggering loss on Darwin Nunez as new asking price emerges

Darwin Nunez looks set to leave Liverpool this summer amid interest from Italian side Napoli and the Reds have already named a shockingly low asking price for the striker

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5 d. ago Huge billboards urge Brits to be nice to seagulls as they're 'lovers not fighters'

The RSPCA has put up huge billboards in seaside towns across the UK urging Brits to be nice to seagulls as they reveal the bird is the most persecuted in the country

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2 w. ago ‘Full of delightful surprises’: why Spy is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers recommending their go-to comfort watches is an ode to Paul Feig’s 2015 comedy starring a never-better Melissa McCarthyIt has a plot and a cast that seem cooked up during a hallucinatory fever dream. It shouldn’t work, but it does – and so splendidly, too. In Paul Feig’s comedy Spy, Melissa McCarthy plays Susan Cooper, a timid CIA desk agent who gets sent out into the field by her fearsome boss (Alison Janney) after the death of her slick Bond-like colleague, Bradley Fine (Jude Law, in a rare comedic turn). The cast is full of delightful surprises. Rose Bryne is a stiletto-clad Oxford-educated villainess with quips so brutal that she makes Regina George look like Barney. Peter Serafinowicz does a game turn as an – admittedly very pre-#MeToo – cringey Italian pervert figure named Aldo (“like the shoe store found in American malls”).And in the film’s most magnificent twist, Jason Statham parodies the hard-as-nails action leads he’s played over the ye...

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3 w. ago Giorgio Armani to miss Milan shows for first time after brief stay in hospital

The celebrated designer, 90, is believed to be saving his energy for his haute couture show in Paris next month Giorgio Armani, the celebrated Italian designer and one of the most recognisable names in fashion, is to miss his shows at Milan fashion week this weekend due to ill health, for the first time in the label’s history.A statement released by the brand on Saturday morning said the 90-year-old designer was “recovering at home” and “will not be present at the two shows as he usually is”. According to la Repubblica, his absence comes after a brief stint in hospital. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Faces of the innocent lives wiped out in an instant: The British victims of Air India plane crash

Relations of the 53 Britons on board have paid tribute to the nurses, teachers, lovers, parents, children and friends whose lives were tragically cut short last week.

Events

3 w. ago Jammie Dodgers fans go wild for new biscuit flavour spotted at Sainsbury's

Lovers of British biscuit Jammie Dodger have gone online to share news about a fresh flavour after spotting it on supermarket shelves. It seems like many of them can't wait to get their hands on it

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