66 h. ago Man executed nearly 70 years ago in case marked by racial bias finally exonerated

Tommy Lee Walker, executed nearly 70 years ago, was innocent - officials have declared

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2 d. ago Horrifying serial killers executed for their gruesome crimes

Saturday 24th January marks 37 years since notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was executed via the electric chair. Here's a look at other infamous criminals who have faced execution.

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3 d. ago Texas Black man exonerated nearly 70 years after execution in case marked by racial bias

Officials have declared that a Texas Black man executed nearly 70 years ago is innocent in a case prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and riddled with racial bias

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3 d. ago Having synaesthesia is a lot like being a twin – we don’t know any different

Identical twins Helen Besgrove, a marketing executive, and Kirsty Neal, a GP, share their different experiences perceiving the world Helen Besgrove: My twin sister, Kirsty, and I have a very similar experience of synaesthesia in that our experiences of sounds, tastes, smells, words, noises and motion is very visual. Whether it’s a name, a personality, a sound or a smell – everything has a colour and a texture in our mind’s eye.What’s interesting is that the colours and the textures Kirsty and I see can be very different. When I drink a glass of chardonnay, I get these swirls of custardy oil but Kirsty might describe the same wine as fuzzy or blobby. It’s the same with people’s personalities, which we both see as a coloured and textured aura around that person. My best friend Jenn’s personality is poo brown, which she hates. For Kirsty, Jenn’s personality is yellow and blue with a brown stripe in the middle. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Donald Trump's most controversial moments as he celebrates one year back as President

We take a look back at Donald Trump's tumultuous return to the White House, marked by controversial pardons, executive orders, and international tensions

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2 w. ago People of colour keep leaving Traitors early. We need to talk about why

Yet again, minority ethnic players are being booted off in the early stages of ‘The Traitors’. Micha Frazer-Carroll looks at why this is becoming a bleakly predictable pattern

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2 w. ago ‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all

Reading for pleasure rates are shockingly low in young people. So we should all get behind a new drive to turn them into avid readers. Why not start with books about art?A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages, ready to turn to find out what happens next. She has porcelain-like skin and golden hair seemingly full of air, executed in textures that contrast with the scratchy, loose marks that make up her shirt and the book’s pages. When I look at this drawing, I am struck by how the artist, the American-born impressionist Mary Cassatt, has perfectly captured the all-consuming sensation of being submerged in a book – the feeling that the whole world is dissolving around you. For a moment, only that story matters.Cassatt, who worked in Paris for most of her adult life when women were finally beginning to be accepted as artists (and deserving of state-funded art education), was hailed ...

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2 w. ago Even reality TV as brilliant as The Traitors can’t escape this troubling cliché

Yet again, minority ethnic players are being booted off in the early stages of ‘The Traitors’. Micha Frazer-Carroll looks at why this is is becoming a bleakly predictable pattern

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2 w. ago Even reality TV as brilliant as The Traitors can’t escape this troubling cliche

Yet again, minority ethnic players are being booted off in the early stages of ‘The Traitors’. Micha Frazer-Carroll looks at why this is becoming a bleakly predictable pattern

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4 w. ago Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's statement in FULL as PR guru quits their charity

James Holt, who ran the charity the Archewell Foundation alongside co-executive director Shauna Nep, quit after working with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for years

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