70 m. ago Primary school teacher banned from classroom after online chats with undercover cop

Julian Barker, 50, sent images of a child and took part in 'sexualised' conversations while working as a supply teacher in Bolton

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86 m. ago Savage Garden's Darren Hayes nearly died after collapsing and smashing his face to pieces

Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes has opened up about a horror accident he was recently involved in, which saw him "lose consciousness" and "nearly lose his life"

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2 h. ago The New Pornographers drummer charged over child sex abuse pictures as band speak out

The New Pornographers drummer, Joseph Seiders, has been charged with possessing child sex abuse images with the band saying they are 'absolutely shocked' by the news

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2 h. ago Outrage as Trump’s coal expansion coupled with health cuts: ‘There won’t be anyone to work in the mines’

Agencies protecting coal miners from hazards such as ‘black lung’ among those gutted by government cutsThe Trump administration’s efforts to expand coal mining while simultaneously imposing deep cuts to agencies tasked with ensuring miner health and safety has left some advocates “dumbfounded”.Agencies that protect coal miners from serious occupational hazards, including the condition best known as “black lung”, have been among those affected by major government cuts imposed by the White House and the unofficial “department of government efficiency” (Doge) run by the billionaire Elon Musk. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Savage Garden’s Darren Hayes was 'close to death' after collapsing at home

Savage Garden’s Darren Hayes says he was “close to death” after a collapse at home left him with serious injuries.

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3 h. ago Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes nearly died in horror accident as he shares injuries

Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes has revealed he was close to death after collapsing at his home in California which left him recovering from severe injuries

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4 h. ago Now Play This 2025 review – the end of an era of experimental game design

Somerset House, LondonAfter 10 fun-packed years, it’s a wrap for the UK’s biggest celebration of indie, communal gameplay. But the folk games at the heart of this year’s edition have now filtered into the mainstream, from Taskmaster to The TraitorsWhen she was a child growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Holly Gramazio made up a game with her friend Summer. The two girls would lie back on swings with their eyes closed. When someone made too much noise nearby, they’d sit to attention and yell as loudly as they could: “Don’t wake me up!” The game captured a child’s view of grownups and their irksome inconsistencies – the self-defeating idea, or perhaps threat, that an adult could scream themselves awake amid their stated efforts to remain asleep. It was a co-operative game: the two girls “won” if they shouted in unison. If only one yelled, they lost. “This is the first game I remember playing,” records Gramazio in the printed guide (which also doubles as a delicious compendium of folk g...

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4 h. ago They’re here. They’re howling. But, are they resurrected dire wolves?

Wolf conservationists say the truly dire matter is protecting America’s wild gray wolves — but that’s not as cute and cuddly for the headlines

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4 h. ago Olly Murs shares 'shock' confession as he gives update on wife Amelia's second pregnancy

Olly Murs has been reflecting on the whirlwind of emotions that he has been experiencing over the past few days, after he and his wife Amelia announced they are expecting their second child

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5 h. ago ‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?

Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?Imagine for a moment you are a child in 1941, sitting the common entrance exam for public schools with nothing but a pencil and paper. You read the following: “Write, for no more than a quarter of an hour, about a British author.”Today, most of us wouldn’t need 15 minutes to ponder such a question. We’d get the answer instantly by turning to AI tools such as Google Gemini, ChatGPT or Siri. Offloading cognitive effort to artificial intelligence has become second nature, but with mounting evidence that human intelligence is declining, some experts fear this impulse is driving the trend. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Mark Wright sends gushing message to Olly Murs after 'shock' baby news

Mark Wright was gushing in his message to friend Olly Murs after the singer had announced that his wife Amelia was expecting their second child

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5 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 6 unhinged things Donald Trump did in 24 hours as 'medical issue' sparks Oval Office chaos

A ceremony to swear in Donald Trump's new administrator of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services was brought to an abrupt end, when a visitor to the Oval apparently collapsed - but it was the guy getting sworn in that was the unhinged bit

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7 h. ago Priest remanded over alleged attempted sexual communication with child

Edward Gallagher, 58, appeared before court via videolink from Strand Road Police Station in Londonderry on Saturday.

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7 h. ago ‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata

The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’“I have had relationships with humans, but I’ve also loved a lot of people in stories,” Sayaka Murata, the Japanese author of the bestseller Convenience Store Woman, confides a few minutes into our interview. “I’ve been told by my doctor not to talk about this too much, but ever since I was a child, I’ve had 30 or 40 imaginary friends who live on a different star or planet with whom I have shared love and sexual experiences.”It is 7pm in Tokyo, mid-morning in London. Sitting upright at a desk in an empty publisher’s office, the 45-year-old author – wearing a cream silk blouse and with a neatly curled bob – might be reading the news rather than discussing imaginary friends. For context, her latest novel to be translated into English, Vanishing World, depi...

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7 h. ago Olly Murs and wife Amelia announce they are expecting their second child

Singer described the news as a ‘shock’

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8 h. ago Shaun Murphy fumes at 'not man enough' Kyren Wilson with Crucible confrontation planned

Shaun Murphy is planning to confront Kyren Wilson after being "unprofessional" by the world champion ahead of the 2025 tournament at the Crucible

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8 h. ago People tell me I have ruined my son's life with the name I chose for him...but I have NO regrets

Abby Williams, 23, of South West England, always knew she wanted to call her child something unusual and considered naming him Mars or Comet, among other space-themed titles.

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9 h. ago Shaun Murphy vows to confront Kyren Wilson and tells snooker rival he's 'not man enough'

Masters champion Shaun Murphy has blasted back at Kyren Wilson after being branded "unprofessional" by his snooker rival on the eve of the 2025 World Championship

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9 h. ago ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativityLast month, the New York Public Library opened the doors on one of its most thrilling acquisitions of recent times: the archive of Joan Didion and her husband and collaborator John Gregory Dunne. After two years of preparation, both scholars and anyone with a library card can arrange a visit to pore over the material contained in a total of 336 boxes of correspondence, photographs and screenplays from the couple’s joint projects, which included the 1976 version of A Star Is Born and the film that in 1971 provided Al Pacino with his first leading role, The Panic in Needle Park.Alongside material evidence of two long writing careers, there is much that is deeply personal: paperwork recording the naming of orchids in honour of Didion, Dunne and their adopted daughter Quintana, the couple’s only child;...

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9 h. ago What the most stereotypical football fans from major clubs around the UK look like, according to AI

Fans of several of the UK's biggest sides have been forced to confront the brutal reality laid bare by an AI generation of their club's stereotypical supporter.

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