32 m. ago Israeli soldiers and former detainees tell AP Israel's use of human shields in Gaza is widespread

Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen

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47 m. ago Cyber brothels, AI girlfriends, and VR intimacy: How worried should we be about the sex tech industry?

No kids, no animals. But inside Europe’s first cyber brothel, which uses a combination of sex dolls and AI to cater to its users’ demands, pretty much anything else goes. Olivia Petter explores the growth of today’s new tech-augmented sex scene, and asks what the rise in AI bots and cyber sex means for the future of human relationships.

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47 m. ago 'Closing down after 29 years!': The fake fashion boutiques stitching up shoppers on Facebook

Websites claiming to be long-running businesses from the UK are scamming shoppers with poor quality items. They are actually based in China and using AI adverts and false reviews to dupe customers. James Holt investigates.

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1 hour ago Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient | Hanno Hauenstein

From a media prize with a dubious pedigree to the horrors of Gaza, the establishment forgets and remembers what suits it bestGrowing up in Germany, we were taught to believe we had done better. Better than our grandparents’ generation, who swept their complicity under a thick rug of silence. Better even than our parents, whose revolts in the late 1960s rarely led to any serious reckoning with the legacy of the Holocaust.Born in the late 1980s, my generation learned about Auschwitz early on. We visited former concentration camps and studied the Nazi regime not as an alien aberration, but as a warning: this is how democracies die. Today, with the far-right AfD and ethno-chauvinism on the rise, that warning has never felt more urgent.Hanno Hauenstein is a Berlin-based journalist and author. He worked as a senior editor in Berliner Zeitung’s culture department, specialising in contemporary art and politics Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Arsenal transfer news: Gunners stance on Rodrygo as Mikel Arteta handed blow

Arsenal's upcoming summer transfer window will be crucial to their hopes of silverware next season as they aim to put the pain of losing the Premier League title behind them and add some much-needed firepower to their squad

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5 h. ago Kate Middleton's brother James reveals what Princess of Wales is really like behind closed doors

In a rare interview, James Middleton, 38, said his relationship with his sister the Princess of Wales, 43, has remained unchanged since she joined the Royal Family.

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7 h. ago Kate Middleton's secret life as 'incredibly emotional' sister to James Middleton

Kate Middleton has always been there for her younger brother James, who has battled with his mental health over the years and has praised the royal's 'emotional intelligence'

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8 h. ago Scott McTominay ascends to Napoli God tier as he assumes Maradona's mantle to become second King of Naples

The Scotland star's stunning opener summed up his season in Serie A as he dragged Napoli to Serie A title glory

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9 h. ago Ruthless England thrash West Indies by nine wickets to clinch T20 series win

England completed a nine-wicket win inside 10 overs at Hove.

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9 h. ago Husband attacked his wife’s coworker with brass knuckles while she watched Pacers game at his house: report

James R. Hopkins of Muncie, Indiana, faces multiple charges after allegedly assaulting his estranged wife’s coworker during a NBA playoff game at the coworker's home.

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9 h. ago Key moments from the second week of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial

The second week of Sean Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering trial featured a dozen witnesses who described the music mogul's physical attacks on others or who provided testimony addressing the government's charges

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9 h. ago England thrash West Indies by nine wickets: second women’s T20 international – live

Nat Sciver-Brunt and Em Arlott starred as England hammered West Indies with more than 10 overs to spare at HoveEm Arlott has two wickets in the over and Sophia Dunkley has taken a blinder! James scuffed Arlott towards midwicket, where Dunkley threw up her left hand to take a brilliant reaction catch. There has been lots of focus on England’s fielding after the Ashes defeat; catches like that will change the narrative very quickly.A huge wicket for Em Arlott! Hayley Matthews wafts all around an excellent delivery that nips back to hit leg stump. Matthews had driven the previous ball majestically over extra-cover for four but Arlott kept pitching it up and got her reward. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago ‘We don’t get to discriminate’: How a Raleigh ministry decided to help resettle Afrikaners

Marc Wyatt, director of Welcome House Raleigh, a ministry of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, received a call recently from the North Carolina field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants asking if he could help furnish two apartments for three newly arrived refugees, among the 59 who arrived in the U.S. last week from South Africa

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10 h. ago Sebastião Salgado captured the world like no other photographer

The death of the esteemed black-and-white photographer leaves behind a rich library of over 500,000 images showing Earth in all its beauty and darkness‘I photographed the world’: the career of Sebastião Salgado – in picturesIt’s a testament to the epic career of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who died this week at age 81, that this year has already seen exhibitions of hundreds of his photos in Mexico City, France and southern California. Salgado, who in his lifetime produced more than 500,000 images while meticulously documenting every continent on Earth and many of the major geopolitical events since the second world war, will be remembered as one of the world’s most prodigious and relentlessly empathetic chroniclers of the human condition.An economist by training, Salgado only began photographing at age 29 after picking up the camera of his wife, Lélia. He began working as a photojournalist in the 1970s, quickly building an impressive reputation that led him to the pres...

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10 h. ago M&S restocks viral pistachio chocolate bar – but how does it taste?

The limited-edition treat draws inspiration from Dubai chocolate

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10 h. ago ‘I treasured that kit’: Leah Williamson’s Arsenal journey from mascot to mainstay

The Arsenal defender knows she must manage her emotions in the Champions League final – 18 years after she was a mascot for the equivalent fixture There is no bigger test of how Arsenal’s Leah Williamson balances the emotion of the occasion as a fan with her life as a player than a first Champions League final after years of working on her feelings when she is wearing red and white. “Do your job, Leah, and then the fan in you gets to enjoy it afterwards,” her internal monologue will run as she prepares to step on to the pitch when the Gunners take on Barcelona in Lisbon.“It’s funny, Less [Alessia Russo] was asking me about this today,” the 28-year-old says, sitting in the sunshine by the small lake at Arsenal’s London Colney training centre. “Maybe it’s age, maybe it’s having the experience of doing it in other moments. The Euros final was fairly level to this in terms of testing my ability to manage the emotions of the day and occasion. I’m just going to enjoy it. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago The Mastermind review – Josh O’Connor is world’s worst art thief in Kelly Reichardt’s unlikely heist movie

Cannes film festival Reichardt’s quietist, observational style is unexpectedly successful at creating a super-naturalistic depiction of an art gallery robberyIt needs hardly be said that the title is ironic. The abject non-hero of Kelly Reichardt’s engrossingly downbeat heist movie, set in 1970s Massachusetts, is weak, vain and utterly clueless. By the end, he’s a weirdly Updikean figure, though without the self-awareness: going on the run with no money and without a change of clothes, to escape from the grotesque mess he has made for himself and his family.This is James, played with hangdog near-charm by Josh O’Connor; he is an art school dropout and would-be architectural designer with two young sons, married to Terri (a minor complaint is that the excellent Alana Haim is not given enough to do). James depends on the social standing of his father Bill, a judge, formidably played by Bill Camp, and is borrowing large sums of money from his patrician mother Sarah (Hope Davis), ostens...

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11 h. ago James Corden and Ruth Jones explain why Gavin and Stacey is never coming back

Duo discussed the series during an appearance at the 2025 Hay Festival

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13 h. ago Kangaroo tries to drown a man after the two 'threw punches at each other like a boxing match' when the animal attacked him

'I just remember being under water and kicking and screaming,' Don James said. The marsupial is believed to have become 'very distressed' when it became trapped in a flooded area in Australia.

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13 h. ago ‘A new form of mass murder’: the terrifying, twisty unsolved mystery of the Tylenol killer

One of the most shocking true crime stories of the 80s is re-investigated in Netflix docuseries Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders“You’ve got an old one, huh?” asks James Lewis, eyeing the bottle of Tylenol with suspicion.“No, just off the shelf today,” replies a voice off camera. Continue reading...

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