90 m. ago ‘Challenger level is about survival’: brutal reality of life below elite tennis

Shared motel rooms, sleeping on floors and making a net loss are among hurdles facing the globetrotters chasing ranking pointsLess than a year after exiting the 2022 Wimbledon quarter-final on the All England Club’s pristine No 1 Court, Cristian Garín found himself 10,000 miles away on a hard court on the Pacific island of Nouméa, New Caledonia.The Chilean, who had a career-high ranking of world No 17, had signed up for an ATP Challenger event, tennis’s second-tier tour, mostly attracting players outside the top 100, after a wrist injury forced him to miss two ATP Masters 1000 events. By January 2023, Garín sat at a precarious No 82. Continue reading...

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90 m. ago Gaza’s sick children wait in torturous limbo for medical evacuations

For some the only hope is treatment abroad, but not all survive the long, desperate wait for Israel’s approvalAbdel Karim Wahdan no longer has the energy to speak. When visitors arrive, the eight-year-old pretends to be sleeping so that no one looks at him. Between his frequent dialysis sessions, he cries. His bones hurt, he says.Abdel Karim is dying. His death should be preventable but because he lives in Gaza he cannot access the treatment that would save his life. What started as acute kidney failure is now chronic: his small body has begun to swell and he spends his days between hospital beds and injections that he hates. Continue reading...

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91 m. ago 'My friend was eaten by shark in front of me – one horror moment was just like Jaws'

Tamara Ennis was out sailing on a catamaran with three others when disaster struck and she was forced to swim for her life after witnessing her friend get eaten by a shark

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2 h. ago Sam Thompson says 'I need a bit of help' after Zara McDermott split in honest confession

Former Made In Chelsea star Sam Thompson has opened up about his dating life before asking fans for their help following his split from Zara McDermott

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2 h. ago The last taboo that will save your boring sex life: Your husband will be VERY surprised to hear you suggest it

British relationship expert Tracey Cox reveals how this surprising switch-up can spice things up again in the bedroom.

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2 h. ago Inside Prince Harry's 'perilous' Afghanistan tour and how it ended in a 'depressing' way: Young royal 'revelled in the simplicity' of army life until a scandal forced him home

It's a longstanding tradition that members of the Royal Family serve their country by joining the armed forces.

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2 h. ago I drove 350 miles in a day in an electric car and it was an expensive nightmare

A man decided to see if he could make the 350-mile round trip from his home to Bristol in an electric car

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2 h. ago Disgusting police officer told colleagues 'my life is f*****' as they arrested him

"That is it, my life is f*****"

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2 h. ago The Last Laugh is a brilliant comedy with a moving twist and added extra

Bringing Welsh legend Tommy Cooper to life The Last Laugh at the Wales Millennium Centre had me hysterics

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2 h. ago 'Mez has been forgotten in all of this': The real Meredith Kercher, the lost victim in the Amanda Knox case

Meredith Kercher, the lost victim in the Amanda Knox case – and the family left serving a “life term” of loss

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2 h. ago Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love review – gracefully grownup and breezy relationships drama

Doctor Marianne wonders if her gay colleague Tor’s approach to dating would work for her, in the second film of Dag Johan Haugerud’s absorbing trilogyHere is the second of Norwegian film-maker and novelist Dag Johan Haugerud’s seductive trilogy about affairs of the heart and mind, set in Oslo. (It comes between Sex and Dreams.) It is a thoroughly grownup and absorbing drama, acted with such sympathy and warmth, a ruminative and exploratory movie of ideas, and one that pays its audience the compliment of treating them as intelligent beings. Love is about a familiar question: can straight people learn from or even absorb the open and polygamous approach to sex that appears to come easier to gay people (and perhaps younger people of all sexualities), perhaps specifically gay men? Or is that idea stereotypical and naive?Andrea Braein Hovig plays Marianne, a urology consultant whose job it is to give bad news to a succession of men about their prostate cancer. She is single (though her p...

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2 h. ago A moment that changed me: I resolved to reduce my screen time – and it was a big mistake

I was looking for liberation from the apps, but quitting them only made my life harder and turned me into a man obsessedI unlocked my iPhone screen at the precise moment that my weekly screen time notification appeared – accidentally dismissing it before I could take a screenshot – and promptly erupted into a rage. I had spent an excruciating week resolutely not looking at my phone, part of a month-long effort to whittle my daily screen time down from more than four hours a day to less than an hour, with the hope of improving my mental wellbeing (and possibly carving out a career as an inspirational speaker). But my efforts felt futile without being able to post evidence online about how offline I had become. I frantically Googled how to retrieve notifications (you cannot) and – briefly – considered re-creating my screen time report in Photoshop.Over the past decade or two, my efforts at self-improvement have taken various forms: the year where I read 105 books; the period during wh...

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2 h. ago Inside Ellen DeGeneres' life in the UK after being 'pushed out' of Hollywood and leaving because of Trump

Ellen DeGeneres shocked her fans when she said goodbye to the United States in favor of the United Kingdom after the 2024 presidential election.

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3 h. ago “This is insane”: Jane Dunn on baking for Saturday Kitchen, internet fame and saying no to The Bear life

Baker and blogger Jane Dunn talks to Ella Walker about swapping high-stress kitchens for cake, becoming an internet sensation by accident, and why she’ll always choose joy over perfection – and pudding over pressure

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3 h. ago It’s possible to reprogram your subconscious mind for a better life – here’s how I did it

We’re told our subconscious mind quietly governs almost everything we do, from our finances to our relationships. But how much control do we really have over it? Hannah Ewens tries to reprogram hers using techniques like Psych-K – and the results were unexpected

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4 h. ago Cats develop dementia like humans – and may hold clues to treating it

The breakthrough was hailed as a “perfect natural model for Alzheimer’s” by scientists who worked on it

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4 h. ago Seals, puffins and sunshine: snorkelling trip to remote British island gives young carers a taste of the sea

Charity gives children a well-earned break from caring responsibilities, hoping that a day’s snorkelling amid the island’s wildlife will help them connect with nature“A seal just swam right by me,” squeals Odin Rawlinson, 14, as he awkwardly clambers back on to the dive boat in his flippers. He had hoped to see a megalodon or a kraken (a mythical sea creature) on his first ever snorkelling trip. But to his surprise, he finds the marine life that actually frequents the waters off Lundy in the Bristol Channel just as enchanting.Odin Rawlinson on the trip to Lundy – the 14-year-old looks after his mother who has kidney failure and has to have regular dialysis sessions in hospital. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago The sad secret life of Ashley Biden: Her diary about 'showers with dad', her sex addiction and marriage confessions... as she files for divorce

At times tragic, at others tawdry, the turbulent history of the Biden clan was one that the mainstream US media was long happy to ignore.

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4 h. ago British Airways stewardess wins discrimination case after being sacked for fear of flying

Jennifer Clifford had been a loyal and dedicated employee for almost 40 years, but was sacked after she was too scared to fly following the Covid-19 pandemic

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5 h. ago Inside Jalisco Mexican 'young team' cartel primed for new wave of evil and torture

Fledgling cartel numbers reach more than 30k as young people in poverty are lured into a life of crime and murder by the promise of riches.

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