9 h. ago British teenager Marcus Fakana jailed in Dubai over sex with girl, 17, pleads for clemency

The 19-year-old has written to the UAE government asking to be released

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65 h. ago Ukraine’s second city hit by ‘most powerful’ Russian attack ‘since start of war’– Russia

At least three killed and a further 22 people injured after nighttime attack involving drones, missiles and guided bombs, mayor saysMy colleague, Daniel Boffey reporting from Kyiv, has written an in-depth piece about the man behind the success of Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb.Vasyl Malyuk, who hailed giving Russia a “slap in the face”, has scored a series of high-profile successes as the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), writes Boffey. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Bodies of woman and boyfriend found after chilling phone clue in disappearance

Leannedra Kang, 25, and her boyfriend Takahiro Toya, from Brisbane, were on holiday in Tasmania where they hired a car and a major search was launched after they didn't board a plane home

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3 d. ago Pregnant teacher accused of sex with boy, 15, spared jail due to 'complicated' reason

Karly Rae, a former special needs teacher, has been released on bail after being charged with grooming and having sex with a teenager who went to the same school she taught at

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7 d. ago Dear Coleen: I'm unsure how to act when my teenager starts having sex

'When I think back to when I was her age, I ­remember trying to out-manoeuvre my parents and find places to be alone with my boyfriend.'

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1 week ago British Airways cabin crew member was 'dancing high and naked in business class' after 30,000ft 'drugs binge'

The steward's colleagues noticed he was missing when he failed to serve meals and drinks to passengers  on the flight on Sunday.

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1 week ago ‘All of us felt like we had touched gold’: What It Feels Like for a Girl, the BBC’s electric coming

Paris Lees has turned her hit memoir of growing up as a working-class trans kid into a vivid, joyful drama. Its team talks teenage sex work, nostalgia for Tony Blair, and why TV drama is so posh it’s like Jane AustenWhen the BBC was casting its adaptation of Paris Lees’s autobiography, What It Feels Like for a Girl, it wasn’t the only one wrestling with how to find the right actor to play the lead in a biopic. “Cher did an interview,” smiles Lees, “and she said: ‘We just can’t find somebody that’s Cher.’ I was like: ‘Same, girl. I hear your struggles.’ So me and Cher have been going through it.” Sitting next to Lees is the actor they went with, Ellis Howard, who you may remember as the sapling Ivan VI in HBO series Catherine the Great, but who you will never have seen being this luminous.“In the beginning, we were looking for a trans person,” Lees says. She and Howard are sharing a Zoom screen, and it’s not so much that they look similar as that they both look so cinematic, the...

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1 week ago Currys worker’s fury over missing office mug ‘out of proportion’, judge rules

Aggrieved employee’s ‘confrontational’ response over his missing cup likely caused resentment among his colleagues, tribunal finds

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1 week ago Implying your office colleagues have stolen your work mug when it goes missing will probably come across as 'out of proportion', tribunal rules as worker loses race discrimination case

Adeel Habib began working as a credit support associate for the electrical giant at their office in Poole, Dorset in January 2023, but he only stayed at the company for under four months.

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1 week ago Sex shame teacher writes a children's book so kids can learn about 'past mistakes'

A disgraced teacher convicted of having sex with a teenage pupil has penned a children's book to help parents talk about their past mistakes.

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2 w. ago Royal Mail faces probe after revealing only 76.5% of its First Class post was delivered on time

Britain's postal service said only 76.3 per cent of First Class letters and parcels arrived within one working day, including Saturdays, in the year to March 2025.

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2 w. ago Nguyễn Thị Thanh death: Beloved Vietnamese ‘Lunch Lady’ chef dies, aged 58

The chef suffered a cardiac arrest in Toronto

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2 w. ago Heaven nightclub bouncer 'raped teenager in car after she was denied entry for being too drunk'

The teenager says she was a virgin and did not believe in sex before marriage

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3 w. ago 'I've never had sex with my wife so I'm sleeping with my first teenage love instead'

A husband who hasn't had sex with his wife in five years of marriage feels conflicted about carrying on a passionate affair with his first love, who he reconnected with following a chance encounter in a chocolate shop

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4 w. ago Sex predator raped teenage girl near Hampden Park then fled to Germany

Marwan Al-Bakr was extradited from Germany after leaving the UK in the days following the attack in February 2022.

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4 w. ago Lunch lady 'had sex with teenager in school closet every day before class' while colleagues missed chilling clue

Jenna Woodworth, 30, was arrested on Thursday after the alleged victim told police she'd been having sex with the worker in a closet at East Central High School in San Antonio, Texas

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