8 h. ago Dad's horror as he watches fairground ride 'completely lift off rails' with his kids onboard as 14 left injured

Coney Beach Amusement Park remains closed after the incident

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24 h. ago Sashi Perera: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The lawyer turned comedian and author shares her favourite online lols, from Michael Bolton as Erin Brockovich to David Attenborough narrating tortoise sex Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI love the internet. People from the time before the internet always talk about how great that time was. They’re lying. Some things were exactly the same: there was love and war, and people pushed doors clearly marked “pull”, especially if someone was watching. But we had to bear these experiences without a tool to ferret out as much information as possible about anything or anyone at any time. So it was definitely a worse time.When a dial-up connection came into my life at 12, I threw myself at the internet with the intensity usually reserved for Backstreet Boys dances. I’ve aggressively communicated on every virtual platform since its inception, and the best bit is the link to all the funnies.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend...

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33 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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48 h. ago Massive shark prowls close to tourists as beach evacuated in British holiday spot

The tourist beach had to be evacuated after the shark's fin was seen sticking out of the water just a few feet from where people were bathing.

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5 d. ago ‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution

Faded items dating back to 1950s have been found on Italian beaches, underscoring plastic’s problematic longevityEnzo Suma, a naturalist guide, has always picked up rubbish during his walks along Carovigno beach, a stretch of coastline lapped by clear blue waters close to his home in Salento, an area of Puglia in the heel of Italy’s boot.During one walk, Suma, 44, spotted a washed-up bottle of Ambre Solaire sunscreen. He was about to throw it away when he noticed something unusual: the price printed on the bottle was in lire, meaning it must have been produced before the euro replaced the lira in Italy. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago My wife has had more than 50 sexual partners – so why won’t she sleep with me?

After 12 years together, she told me how many people she had slept with before we met. It has made it harder for me to accept how rarely we have sexI’ve been with my wife for 12 years. She recently admitted she has had many more sexual partners than me, more than 50 for sure, but it could be 100. She has only had a couple of long-term relationships. I didn’t think the number bothered me: I didn’t know her then, it was before we got together and we can’t change the past. However, we hardly ever have sex (only once every three to four months) and her sex drive dropped off a cliff after our first child was born almost 10 years ago. She says it’s the stress of children but I can’t help feeling she just doesn’t find me attractive any more. Rightly or wrongly, I now feel upset that she was willing to have sex with so many people before me but doesn’t want to have sex with me.When a partner’s libido drops, it is very common for the other to assume that the partner no longer feels the same ...

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1 week ago Dogging hotspot to get warning signs ahead of crematorium plan after broad daylight romps

Concerns about people having sex in broad daylight on Arcot Lane, Cramlington, Northumberland, have been raised after plans to build a new crematorium nearby were given the green light

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3 w. ago Beach close to perfection is 20 minutes from Wales' best restaurant but looks like Barbados

A must-visit if you are on holidays in west Wales, a trip to Barafundle beach is worth the stroll from the car park

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3 w. ago ‘It’s not just pleasure – it’s resistance’: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world

Gulim in Kazakhstan keeps her very first one as a souvenir while Coco in Thailand breaks the law by having them, and Serena in Italy says they’re essential. But there’s still a stigma when it comes to talking about sex toys. That’s why Gabriele Galimberti’s images are so powerful, writes author and academic Roxane Gay (Warning: explicit content)Most of us are taught to keep our sexual lives private. We’re taught to hide our desires, and all too often, to be ashamed of them. Cultural instruction about sex tends to be very prescriptive. Sex happens in our bedrooms, behind closed doors, between a man and a woman. Sex is for procreation rather than pleasure. Sex is for marriage. Sex should only happen when you fall in love. If you’re a woman, you should only have one sexual partner for the whole of your life. If you’re a man, the sky’s the limit.Certainly, some of these mores have shifted over time, relaxed a bit. But mostly, we’re supposed to keep our sex lives to oursel...

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4 w. ago Judge orders famous Seattle nude beach closed because people keep having sex in public there

A Seattle judge has ordered that a popular beach in the city be closed because it has become a hot spot for public sex and nudity. 

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4 w. ago Texas adds transgender bathroom bill to agenda for special legislative session to deal with deadly flooding

The bill would make transgender people use bathrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth in public places such as schools

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