69 h. ago Texas teen hospitalized with severe burns after TikTok experiment goes horribly wrong: ‘My shirt was on fire’

Twelve-year-old Caden Ballard and his older brother saw a video on the social media app which involved putting rubbing alcohol into a bottle and setting it on fire, making flames shoot up the bottle

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2 d. ago Trump lashes out at Rose Garden worker for damaging stone in controversial redesign

President Donald Trump has lashed out at a “stupid” contractor working on his controversial redesign of the White House Rose Garden for damaging a piece of stone, posting a video of the incident on social media.

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4 d. ago DWTS star's groveling apology for appalling gunshot post after horrific Minnesota school shooting

Dancing With the Stars' Cheryl Burke has issued a public apology after posting a social media video that included the sound of a gunshot, just hours after a deadly school shooting in Minneapolis.

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5 d. ago Horror as passenger sets himself on fire at airport after argument with wife

A video circulating on social media shows the man setting fire to himself in the terminal of Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan after arguing with his wife over the phone

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5 d. ago Man at centre of Dundee schoolgirl 'blade' video claims innocence after social media rumours

Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson shared false information about the incident in Dundee.

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9 d. ago Ibiza Final Boss wows crowds with surprise appearance at Creamfields

He went viral on social media after video circulated online this summer

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9 d. ago Prince Harry reveals surfing skills in rare video posted by Meghan

The Duchess of Sussex has surprised fans on social media with a video of Prince Harry surfing.

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1 week ago Surfing Prince Harry rides waves in rare video posted by Meghan

The Duchess of Sussex has surprised fans on social media with a video of Prince Harry surfing.

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1 week ago Meghan shares video of Prince Harry as you’ve never seen him before

Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has surprised fans on social media with a video of Prince Harry surfing.

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1 week ago Good vibes or time to go? Notting Hill residents remain divided over Carnival

Some locals are calling for Notting Hill Carnival to be held as a ticketed event in Hyde Park

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1 week ago Elderly shelter dog who went viral in heartbreaking adoption video finally gets forever family

The heartbreaking video went viral on social media

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2 w. ago Tarantino said to divide time between Israel and UK for London play

Tarantino said to divide time between Israel and UK for London play  JNS.org

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2 w. ago Special London City Council meeting addresses charges against Mayor Randall Weddle

Special London City Council meeting addresses charges against Mayor Randall Weddle  WKYT

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2 w. ago Boy, 17, who filmed body of dead man, 51, as others giggled before sharing the clip online is sentenced

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, recorded Paul Lawrence, 51, after he was killed in the early hours of January 28 last year.

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2 w. ago American tourist claims he's found the 'best UK ice cream' in seaside town

The tourist enjoyed an ice cream sundae in the review video that went viral on social media

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2 w. ago Teenage girls making TikToks: Philippa James’s best photograph

‘My daughter and her friends are part of the smartphone generation. The more time I spent with them, the more I learned about the darker side of their mobiles’This started as a project with my daughter and her friends, who are all part of the smartphone generation. They were 14 years old at the time and I wanted to learn more about the relationship they had with their mobile phones. In 2022, a study by Ofcom showed that nine out of 10 children owned one by the time they reached the age of 11, and that 91% of them used video platforms, messaging apps and social media by the age of 12. I spoke to my daughter and her friends about how they use their phones and the negative reputation that surrounds teenagers and their screens. They told me the positives as well as the negatives, such as how social media can raise confidence as well as knock it down.I asked if I could photograph them. There was very little direction from me and – rather than photographing them in a controlled portraitur...

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3 w. ago Russian bus passengers ordered to rush to bomb shelters over 'imminent nuclear strike'

A video going viral on Russian social media shows a woman passenger as she heard the warning today on the intercom of bus 191 to Grachevskaya station in the Russian capital

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3 w. ago Viral video shows Oasis fans packing Edinburgh train station as they tried to get home

A video has gone viral on social media after showing a sea of people inside Haymarket Station.

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3 w. ago Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote and should “submit” to their husbands

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3 w. ago Alarm in China that efforts to control Chikungunya virus are infringing on rights

Many say control measure for mosquito-borne disease hark back to the zero-Covid era, in which people’s daily lives were strictly monitoredThere is growing alarm in China that official efforts to control the spread of Chikungunya virus, a non-fatal mosquito-borne disease that has been spreading in the south of the country, are infringing on people’s personal rights.A single mother living in Zhanjiang, a port city in Guangdong province, posted a video on social media this week showing a group of people, including a uniformed police officer, entering her children’s bedroom in the middle of the night and taking blood samples from the boy and the girl, without their mother’s presence or consent. The mother had been working a night shift so was not at home. Continue reading...

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