19 h. ago ‘It never happened – but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world

From the pope in a puffer to the Princess of Wales and family, baby Hitler to Mussolini on horseback, people have always manipulated photographs, whether for political power, image control – or just for fun “Pictures or it didn’t happen.” So runs the immediate social media retort to any claim deemed too extraordinary to be true. Carried within it is an assumption shared across the globe which has held firm almost since the invention of the camera: that the ultimate form of proof is the photograph. The idea is so strongly fixed in the human mind, it has acquired the status of a law of nature, one obvious even to a child: the camera never lies.Except it does, as the images collected here vividly attest. We may think of AI deepfakes, and their Photoshop predecessors, as thoroughly modern menaces, corrupting a previously innocent, reliable medium, but we would be wrong. It turns out people have been doctoring photos, manipulating and meddling, from the start. “Honest” Abe Lincoln was no...

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20 h. ago It’s wrong to tell off other people’s kids – it leaves me fuming as a mum

So many people take it upon themselves to lay down the law with other people’s kids. Enough is enough, says Charlotte Cripps. We need to be able to hold it back for emergencies where genuine harm is going to come to someone

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3 d. ago People are just realising they've been pronouncing 'Chupa Chups' all wrong

While most Brits probably think they know the UK snack scene like the back of their hand - many have been shocked to discover they have been mispronouncing one treat.

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4 d. ago ITV Emmerdale's Will Ash warns Caleb's feud with Joe could turn deadly in huge spoiler

After surviving an apparent stabbing, Emmerdale's Caleb is set to become suspicious of kidney thief Joe Tate - and the feud has the potential to leave one of them at death's door.

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5 d. ago 'I went to private school and every stereotype you've got about people like me is wrong'

'I am more of a typical private school student than the stereotype many people have', says Natasha Asghar, Welsh Conservative MS for South Wales East

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6 d. ago Molly Malone statue to be guarded as tourists won't stop rubbing bronze boobs 'for luck'

Tourists making tits of themselves in Dublin's fair city have been urged to leave Molly alone after the pervy practice of fondling her breasts has rubbed people up the wrong way

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6 d. ago My Parents Are Aliens star looks completely unrecognisable 19 years after ITV show

A former child star from a classic noughties kids' show is almost unrecognisable 19 years later, leaving fans shocked by how much they’ve changed since the show

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8 d. ago Blundering council apologies after it buries people in wrong graves in Coney Hill cemetery

Gloucester City Council was asked to launch an investigation after it was discovered the bodies were buried in the wrong locations at Coney Hill cemetery in the east of the city

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9 d. ago A dad went viral after leaving his kids at a McDonalds for a ‘job interview.’ But police say his story didn’t add up

Police claim Chris Louis, 24, wasn’t at a job interview when a deputy found the children but had attended one earlier in the day

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9 d. ago Georgia man sparks fierce debate after leaving his kids alone in McDonald's for nearly two hours

Chris Louis, 24, left his kids - aged 10, six and one - at one of the chain's restaurants in Augusta, Georgia. But the act has sparked a huge debate online.

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9 d. ago I bully men for a living as a dominatrix... I don't think it is 'dirty' or 'wrong' despite what people say

Mooni Minx, 19, from Ohio, bullies men for a living as a dominatrix. She has been in the findom industry for two years after realizing that a regular 9-5 job was never for her.

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1 week ago Antonio Brown raising money for dad arrested for leaving his three young kids in McDonald’s to go to job interview

The former NFL player donated more than $1,000 to help 24-year-old Chris Louis

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1 week ago There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan

It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’On 29 January, the second Trump administration held its first White House press briefing. “Of the 3,500 arrests Ice has made so far since President Trump came back into office, can you just tell us the numbers?” asked a reporter in the front row. “How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?”“All of them,” responded the new White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, making her debut in the briefing room, “because they illegally broke our nation’s laws, and, therefore, they are criminals, as far as this administration goes.” She continued: “I know the last administration didn’t see it that way, so it’s a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal. But that’s exactly what they are.”Mehdi Hasan is a broadcaster and author, and a former host on MSNBC. He is also a Guardian US...

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1 week ago People are only just realising how to pronounce Roald Dahl's name

Roald Dahl , who wrote books such as Matilda, Charlie in The Chocolate Factory, and the Fantastic Mr Fox, was born in Landaff - a small town outside of Cardiff, Wales - to Norwegian parents.

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1 week ago Top doctor warns you're putting underwear on WRONG! The way most people do it risks 'crotch rot' infection

A simple change to your morning routine could prevent a nasty groin fungal infection, experts have revealed.

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1 week ago Top doctor warns you're putting underwear on WRONG! There way most people do it risks 'crotch rot' infection

A simple change to your morning routine could prevent a nasty groin fungal infection, experts have revealed.

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1 week ago 'He’ll be one hell of a player' – ex Celtic kid tipped for superstardom just 9 months after leaving Parkhead

The teenager left the Hoops at the start of the season after following in his father's footsteps by playing for the club.

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1 week ago Fox reporter's hilarious Biden joke leaves Donald Trump and Kid Rock in stitches

Kid Rock joined Trump in the Oval Office for a bold, star-spangled event promoting a crackdown on ticket scalping. Fox News' Peter Doocy delivered a one-liner with perfect comedic timing.

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1 week ago Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood | Saman Shad

The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades, but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving formsThe first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex Lives of Married Women.”I laughed too. She wasn’t wrong – married people aren’t exactly known for their thriving sex lives. And I suspect the only couples reliably having sex must be the ones who have scheduled it into their Google calendars, probably in a shared folder alongside “Bunnings trip” and “remortgage review”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Brit who shows tourists around North Korea explains why everyone's wrong about country

Zoe Stephens has made a name for herself since sharing that she's a tour guide in North Korea and the Brit thinks people are 'wrong' about she calls a 'normal' country

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