16 h. ago Myanmar earthquake: Terrifying moment skyscraper window cleaner clings on for life as quake hits

More than 1,640 people are confirmed to have been killed in the devastating earthquake that rocked Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand last week, according to officials

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17 h. ago A new start after 60: I was never a great swimmer – but I took up diving and now somersault into the pool

After moving to a new city, Antonia Murphy was captivated by the local diving facilities. Now 68, she can launch herself off a 7.5-metre platformAntonia Murphy has always loved water. It can be warm or icy, wild or maintained in a municipal facility. Although “not a great swimmer”, she is a confident one. So when she moved to Edinburgh two years ago, she promptly checked out the public leisure centre. She was captivated by the alluring, deep blue of the diving pool. “I thought: ‘This is unbelievable.’ I felt seduced,” she says.She had “larked around” as a child, but never learned to dive, so she went along to the Royal Commonwealth’s public session. “This bloke was standing there. We got chatting.” He told her about coaching sessions – and Murphy, then 66, booked a taster class. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Moment earthquake victim trapped under rubble is rescued ALIVE after terrifying 40

The man was pulled out from under the rubble of a collapsed building in the capital Naypyidaw by rescue teams from Singapore and Myanmar on Sunday, the country's army-run TV reported.

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57 h. ago Moment Myanmar earthquake swamps people with gallons of water from rooftop swimming pool

The footage shows the moment a crowd of people desperately scrambled for safety down the street before being hit by a torrent of water that fell from a rooftop pool after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake

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60 h. ago Gold leaf and Gatsby: Brussels lays claim to birth of art deco with year of celebrations

Throughout 2025, the Belgian capital is marking 100 years of the movement with events, exhibitions and film screeningsThe gold leaf around the window and door frames ripples, reflected in the water of the swimming pool. Elegant, spare, pristine, the Villa Empain in south Brussels seems little changed since it was built over 90 years ago.Yet this art deco masterpiece reopened only in 2010 after falling into ruin. Illegal ravers had scrawled on its marble walls and stolen its treasures, from radiator grills to a decorative fish that was the centrepiece of a fountain in the bar. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago ‘Final Destination?’ Video of London’s transparent swimming pool suspended between building goes viral aft

‘Final Destination?’ Video of London’s transparent swimming pool suspended between building goes viral aft  The Economic Times

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2 d. ago New Cumnock Swimming Pool opens for new season on back of near record year

More than 30,000 swimmers visited New Cumnock Swimming Pool last year and a bumper 2025 is hoped for as the new season opens.

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3 d. ago Brit in Bangkok says 'blood rushed to my head' in earthquake as he waited for takeaway

PR consultant Alex MacGregor, 36, was working from home waiting on a food delivery when he noticed the water in his swimming pool lapping at the edges before it got 'violent'

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3 d. ago Horrifying moment crowd is washed away by infinity pool water after Myanmar earthquake

This is the terrifying moment a huge wave from an infinity pool swept up dozens of people after an earthquake in Myanmar sparked shockwaves across Southeast Asia

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3 d. ago Rooftop pool spills over skyscraper as Bangkok hit by earthquake tremors

Water from a rooftop pool was seen cascading down the side of a skyscraper in Bangkok, after tremors from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake were felt in Thailand on Friday, 28 March.

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3 d. ago New Cumnock Swimming Pool in pictures: 12 images of Scotland's new public, outdoor, freshwater pool

"For me, it's as much about giving local people a space to come together and socialise as it is about swimming.”

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3 d. ago Sydney Sweeney sizzles in string bikini after 'calling off' wedding to fiancé

Tinseltown beauty Sydney Sweeney has shared new shots that show her looking absolutely sensational as she posed underwater in a swimming pool in a skimpy bikini

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3 d. ago Moment building collapses as Myanmar earthquake tremors hit Bangkok

A high-rise building under construction collapsed due to strong earthquake tremors in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, March 28.

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5 d. ago Man 'filmed young girl' in changing rooms at Scots swimming pool

Police have following a number of lines of inquiry to identify the man.

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5 d. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming

From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it‘The first thing to say is that I’m a terrible swimmer,” says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design Museum in London this week. Growing up, school swimming lessons were “horrible, traumatic” – the cold water, the humiliation, the scrutiny from teenage boys. But something shifted when she moved to Margate 10 years ago and discovered the joy of swimming in the resort’s huge tidal pool, which was built in the 1930s. “This sounds quite pretentious, but it’s this idea of becoming one with the horizon,” says Butchart. “It’s almost like an existential feeling of the vastness of the world and being physically a part of that when you’re immersed in water. It’s transformational.”Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style explores our enduring love affair with swimming, from Britain’s lido boom of the 1920s and 30s to the Merma...

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1 week ago Inside Rylan Clark's luxurious 1.2m Essex mansion with iconic Gogglebox sofa and swimming pool house

Rylan Clark will return to the BBC this Friday to present Comic Relief 2025 with the charity celebrating its 40th anniversary.

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1 week ago François Ozon: ‘I was a very perverse child – I loved the idea of my aunt trying to kill us all’

The reformed ‘enfant terrible’ of French cinema – and director of ‘Swimming Pool’ and ‘8 Women’ – is back with a twisty tale of mushroom poisonings and sex work called ‘When Autumn Falls’. He speaks to Adam White about catfights, plastic surgery, and why some filmmakers might actually miss censorship

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1 week ago Swimming pool lifts the lid on 'inaccurate' allegations it 'kicked out every Black kid'

One furious parent captured the moment a group of children were left stranded at the poolside with towels to their waists after being ordered to leave by police - who turned up to the New South Wales leisure centre

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2 w. ago Rebekah Vardy's lavish £7K a night hotel getaway in Thailand complete with a private ocean view swimming pool

Rebekah Vardy flaunted her wealth on Instagram on Sunday as she showed off her lavish £7K a night hotel getaway in Thailand. 

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2 w. ago How many legal parents can a child have? The Dutch are asking the question | Mark Smith

In our rainbow family, there are two dads and a mum – but the law in the Netherlands only recognises two of usOur daughter is very much on board with the idea that, unlike her, many other five-year-olds don’t have two fathers and a mum. “Only has one dad,” she’ll remark in a confidential tone of a newly made friend at the trampoline park or the swimming pool.My husband and I live in Amsterdam, a short cycle from our daughter’s mum, who is a longstanding mutual friend. Our daughter’s time is split between the two households. We are just one of many rainbow families in the Netherlands, where parents (often, a gay male couple and a single woman, or a lesbian couple) choose to have and raise children in constellations of more than two adults. The Dutch have a proud history of championing gay rights – it was back in 2001 that Amsterdam’s then-mayor presided over the world’s first same-sex marriages – and families such as ours have long been embraced here. And yet, from a legal point of v...

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