54 m. ago BBC halts Pilgrimage filming as Jay McGuiness breaks down in tears after question

The Wanted star Jay McGuiness breaks down over bandmate Tom Parker during an emotional chat with comic Helen Lederer in emotional scenes on the BBC hit show

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93 m. ago Nasa’s oldest astronaut celebrates 70th birthday with return to Earth

Don Pettit became septuagenarian hurtling towards Earth after seven-month mission at International Space StationCake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens celebrate their 70th birthday.But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Continue reading...

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2 h. ago In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review

Long-buried truths leave siblings reeling when their father dies; a fascinating reclamation of Homer’s forgotten women; and still waters run deep in a centuries-spanning novelRachel JoyceDoubleday, £20, pp384 Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Jesus returns as an AI INFLUENCER who you can video call in real

Around 2,000 years since the crucifixion, Jesus Christ has returned once again - this time as an AI influencer.

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5 h. ago ‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth

Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existenceSeveral billion years ago, at the dawn of the solar system, a wet, salty world circled our sun. Then it collided, catastrophically, with another object and shattered into pieces.One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are critical for the existence of life. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Serial rapist survivor hits out as 'remorseless' thug launches bid for freedom

Liam Sharpe was jailed for 13 years and 10 months after being convicted of carrying out a campaign of cruelty, violence and rape against three former partners.

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11 h. ago Suspect arrested 35 years after rape and murder of woman killed while walking to her husband’s office

Paul Bowles, 62, of Fulton, has been accused of raping and murdering 18-year-old Jennifer Williams in 1989

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11 h. ago Astonishing claims that Fayed bugged a female aide's flat... with the help of a bogus MI5 agent, corrupt police and a fake copy of the Official Secrets Act

Police are investigating astonishing claims that corrupt detectives working for Mohamed Al Fayed deceived one of his victims by staging an elaborate ruse involving a bogus MI5 officer and a bugged flat.

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13 h. ago ‘Bordering on incredible’: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies and offering none of its own

With Peter Dutton’s views on climate change in the spotlight, the focus has turned onto whether there will be any policies to reduce emissions in the next decadePolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition is refusing to say if it will introduce any policies to cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade as it pledges to unwind most climate measures introduced under Labor.Peter Dutton’s position on the climate crisis came under scrutiny last week after he gave contradictory answers on whether he accepted mainstream climate science. Asked during a leaders’ debate on the ABC whether extreme weather events were worsening, the opposition leader said: “I don’t know because I’m not a scientist”.Dropping a Labor goal of 82% of electricity coming from renewable g...

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15 h. ago Incredible tale of the only man to sneak into Area 51 and get out alive... here's what he saw

An anthropologist from California got more than he bargained for during a secret journey into the Nevada desert - coming face to face with the strange happenings taking place at Area 51.

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19 h. ago ‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

More and more men are being sucked into parts of the internet that circulate misogynist content, leaving their families to deal with the wreckageSamantha thought of her partner as the most progressive man she had ever had a relationship with. Her Swedish boyfriend seemed, to her, more feminist than many British men she had dated.“I never had to ask him to clear up,” she says. “All our labour was shared. He had done therapy. He was happy to talk about his emotions.” Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Climatologist Friederike Otto: ‘The more unequal the society is, the more severe the climate disaster’

The German scientist on her new book arguing that inequality, wealth and sexism are making the climate crisis worse – and what we need to do about itFriederike Otto is a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London. She is also the co-founder of the World Weather Attribution initiative, which seeks to determine the influence of global warming on intensity and likelihood of an extreme weather event. The project also examines how factors such as ill-suited architecture and poverty exacerbate heatwaves, hurricanes, floods and wildfires. This is the theme of her second book, Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change.The thesis of your book is that the climate crisis is a symptom of global inequality and injustice. That will be quite topsy-turvy to some people, who think global heating is caused by the amount of carbon that we are putting into the atmosphere.Yes, of course, if you just stick to the physics, then the warming is cau...

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21 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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22 h. ago Urgent warning over Dubai chocolate SCAMS: Greedy fraudsters are setting up fake websites to cash in on the viral craze

If you're desperate for a taste of the Dubai chocolate bar, experts warn to be on the lookout for scams cashing in on the craze.

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23 h. ago Terrifying influence of Andrew Tate as teachers face rape threats by brainwashed boys

Warning: sensitive content on sexual abuse. As teachers sound the alarm on Andrew Tate's dangerous influence in classrooms, we speak to experts and educators to delve into the dark underbelly of the influencer's stardom

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24 h. ago 'Vindictive' woman who made false rape claims against rugby union star jailed

Sandra Ntonya was jailed after she breached a restraining order that was imposed on her to stop her from contacting former Sale Sharks and England star Marland Yarde.

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25 h. ago Google Pixel 9a review: Engaging AI features and mighty battery life give Apple's 'budget' iPhone a run for its money

MailOnline tests the new Google handset, described as a more accessible alternative to Google's flagship Pixel 9 (£799).

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25 h. ago Scientists reveal how the stone sealing Jesus' tomb COULD have been moved

A radical theory claims Jesus was able to appear to his disciples after his crucifixion without any supernatural factors because he never really died on the cross.

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26 h. ago Woman who 'raped and killed boyfriend's little girl, 4,' sent him chilling last text

Amber Lee Hughes, 25, has denied the rape and murder of her partner's four-year-old daughter and is standing trial in South Africa. The court heard she sent a chilling final text to the boyfriend

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30 h. ago Are we alone? New discovery raises hopes of finding alien life

Tentative evidence for life on a distant world is exciting, but unconfirmed. As new telescopes bring exoplanets into sharper focus, is the truth out there?Towards the end of his life, the cosmologist Stephen Hawking was asked about the odds of finding intelligent alien life in the next two decades. “The probability is low,” he declared in 2016, and took a lengthy pause before adding: “Probably.”This week, other scientists from the University of Cambridge reported tentative evidence for two compounds in the atmosphere of a planet, K2-18b, that sits in the constellation of Leo 124 light years away. Continue reading...

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