15 h. ago Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo review – the Korean bestseller about platonic partnership

A quietly revolutionary account of cohabiting captured a nation’s heart – but what does it mean for the rest of the world?When Sunwoo and Hana met on Twitter, they were in their 40s and committed bachelorettes. Both raised by the sea in Busan, they studied in Seoul before entering the city’s famously brutal rat race, Sunwoo as a fashion journalist, Hana as a copywriter. They shared the same taste in music and books, and importantly, both had rejected marriage. No wonder. In South Korea’s stubbornly patriarchal culture, women in dual-income families spend nearly three hours more a day on household chores than men. Instead, Sunwoo and Hana joined the large number of South Koreans living alone. At first, independence felt exhilarating. By middle age however, loneliness was beginning to gnaw, and their boxy studio apartments felt oppressively small.Two Women Living Together, a 2019 South Korean bestseller that spawned a popular podcast, charts Sunwoo and Hana’s ...

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16 h. ago Married music teacher's breathtaking confession in court as she ADMITS having sex with boy, 12

Naomi Tekea Craig, 33, appeared in Mandurah Local Court via audio link on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to 15 charges over her sexual relationship with the boy, which lasted about 14 months.

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21 h. ago Glamorous blonde music teacher's breathtaking confession in court as she ADMITS having sex with boy, 12

Naomi Tekea Craig, 33, appeared in Mandurah Local Court via audio link on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to 15 charges over her sexual relationship with the boy, which lasted about 14 months.

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4 d. ago Teacher faces jail over sex with schoolboy, 15, after sending him 25,000 racy texts

A married teacher and mum-of-two, Allison Havemann-Niedrach, has admitted to having sex with a 15-year-old schoolboy, which saw 25,000 texts sent to the young victim

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2 w. ago Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis ‘marries her dog’ on 50th birthday

Lewis wrote about the pooch in the 2021 song ‘Puppy and a Truck’

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2 w. ago Algerian migrant sex offender who was wrongly released from prison admits burglary and carrying a knife

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was at the centre of a manhunt in November after he was mistakenly set free from HMP Wandsworth while he was supposed to be held in custody awaiting trial.

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2 w. ago Former Labour councillor and Hope Not Hate activist admits child sex offences against 13

Liron Velleman, 30, admitted one count of attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and attempting to cause a child aged 13 to 15 to watch or look at an image of sexual activity.

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2 w. ago Married Perth music teacher on maternity leave Naomi Tekea Craig is charged with allegedly sexually abusing a teenage schoolboy at Frederick Irwin Anglican School

Naomi Tekea Craig, 33, was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly engaging in 'persistent sexual conduct' with a teenage boy in Mandurah, a coastal city just south of Perth, between 2024 and 2025.

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3 w. ago Country music superstar secretly marries fiancée on ‘trip to remember’ in Spain after ‘whirlwind romance’

COUNTRY music superstar Zach Bryan is kicking off 2026 as a married man after tying the knot in secret last night. I can reveal he wed his girlfriend Samantha Leonard in an intimate ceremony in San Sebastian, Spain, where her family hail from. The couple only went public with their romance in the summer, but...

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4 w. ago Who said that sex is so good for you it should be on the NHS

As another year is about to pass into the history books, we test you on what wise words, silly speeches and curious quotes were issued by the great and sometimes not so good in 2025.

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