16 h. ago Summer holidays in Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza face huge disruption as mass strikes to hit hotels

Mass walkouts by hotel staff threaten holidays in British tourist hotspots in Spain

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24 h. ago British boy, four, dies after being pulled from Tenerife hotel swimming pool

The heart-breaking incident took place on Thursday afternoon in San Miguel de Abona, a popular holiday spot in the south of the island.

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44 h. ago Nine Perfect Strangers season two review – not even Nicole Kidman’s new wig makes this worth watching

The good news is that the star has rediscovered her ability to emote facially. The bad news is that this boring drama about a creepy wellness guru is almost impossible to care aboutThe wig is better. Everything else is worse. The second series of Nine Perfect Strangers – which was so clearly set up by the open-ended finale of the original, starring Nicole Kidman in a blond hairpiece that would disgrace a four-year-old’s Frozen birthday party – is here.Mad/bad/traumatised wellness guru/cult leader/visionary genius Masha (Kidman) was last seen driving to freedom after experimenting on the stupid, affluent guests at her California health retreat for the stupid and affluent. Tranquillum House was the name, microdosing subjects with psychotics and without consent so they hallucinated dead children and fires was the game. Plus, constant surveillance by hidden cameras feeding private information back to Masha at all times. Let me stop you there and say – well, yes, quite. But Melissa McCar...

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5 d. ago Leeds Marriott review: The perfect hotel in a British shopper's paradise city

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star's resident 'wait, Leeds is a place people actually go for a visit' expert Adam Cailler took his family to the Leeds Marriott hotel - and was more than impressed

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6 d. ago British law chief seeking arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu 'accused of hotel sex assault on female colleague hours before war crimes speech to UN'

The British chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court allegedly sexually assaulted a female colleague in a hotel room before making a speech to the UN.

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8 d. ago British boy, eight, seriously injured on holiday in Spain after smashing through a hotel window

A British child has been seriously injured after smashing into a window at a hotel in Magaluf.

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8 d. ago Seaside town is home to the UK's 'longest high street' and it's a shopper's paradise

One UK destination is the home to the country's longest street, and it's a shopper's paradise, with an array of shops, cafes, and even an outdoor market.

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1 week ago British tourist fighting for life in Crete after collapsing in hotel pool

The 77-year-old was on holiday when he became unwell.

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1 week ago Ara restaurant review: inventive and affordable fine dining that's perfect for any occasion

Some restaurants are perfect for dates - low lighting, quiet and romantic - while others are favoured for business lunches.

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2 w. ago Can robots make the perfect Aperol spritz? – Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 review

From 3D-printing with bacteria to cocktail-mixing humanoids, from the future of space suits to reassurances about climate change, this mind-boggling rollercoaster of a show could do with a more focused curatorial visionA teetering wall of gungy green bricks greets visitors to this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, forming an imposing blockade near the start of the show. The blocks are made of bio-cement, incorporating fishing nets and algae dredged from the depths of the Venetian lagoon. The wall’s steeply sloping gradient follows the curve of global population growth over the last millennium, terminating abruptly near the ceiling to represent the coming peak of humanity. “What awaits us on the other side of the hill?” asks Carlo Ratti, director of this year’s biennale, as he stands in front of the momentous cliff. The answer is a great heap of gunge. A festering mountain of mould-like gunk is piled up against the back of the wall, apparently an allegory for microbial intelligenc...

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2 w. ago Netflix film with perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating has been hailed as 'best ever'

The First Slam Dunk has a perfect review score on Rotten Tomatoes

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3 w. ago Kurtág: Játékok review – Aimard is perfect guide to major set of piano miniatures

Pierre-Laurent Aimard(Pentatone, two CDs)Kurtág himself approved Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s selection of 81 pieces from the composer’s 10 volumes of miniature pieces, now among the past half century’s great achievementsIn 1973, György Kurtág began composing piano miniatures to which he gave the collective title of Játékok (Games). He has continued to add to the series, so that now there are well over 400 such pieces, for both solo piano and four hands, which have been published in 10 volumes so far. The pieces, rarely more than a couple of minutes long and sometimes lasting just a few seconds, were first intended as didactic exercises, designed to elucidate a musical point or a detail of keyboard technique, but the collection soon began to encompass other occasional works and more personal expressions – birthday greetings, tributes and memorials to friends and fellow musicians, paraphrases of other music – becoming a complete encyclopedia of Kurtág’s compositional methods.The composer ...

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3 w. ago British woman, 33, found dead at Ibiza Rocks Hotel sparking police investigation

The 33-year-old woman died in her room at the adults-only Ibiza Rocks Hotel in San Antonio last night despite efforts to save her — the incident is the second tragedy at the hotel this week

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3 w. ago London Sinfonietta at Southbank Centre review: perfect symbiosis of motion and movement

Dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests provide choreography for a one-of-a-kind performance of Terry Riley’s In C

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3 w. ago British tourist 'gives birth 10 weeks early during blackouts in Spain': Hero hotel worker helps mother deliver baby

The holidaymaker in her 20s is stable in hospital after the dramatic delivery in the early hours of Tuesday at the Puente Real Hotel in Torremolinos.

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3 w. ago Backbone One Xbox Edition controller review – translucent design is a perfect Xbox Game Pass partner

Players looking for a premium way to play Xbox games on the go will find it in the Backbone One Xbox Edition controller – providing they're willing to pay the price.

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4 w. ago Melitta EPOS coffee machine review: The perfect coffee machine for posh coffee lovers

As something of a gadget enthusiast, seeing so many options and buttons was more exciting than I’d care to admit out loud, too, including the grinder which has its own series of presets

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4 w. ago Hidden gem war film with perfect review score and 'realism few can replicate'

The Cruel Sea is a 1953 war film that is based on the best-selling novel of the same name and is set during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War

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