16 h. ago Han Kang Nobel prize lecture book sells 10,000 copies in first day online in South Korea

Korean retailers report strong sales for Light and Thread, featuring speeches, essays and poems by novelistA book featuring Han Kang’s Nobel prize lecture sold 10,000 copies in its first day on sale online.Light and Thread, which takes its title from Han’s December lecture, is her first book to be published in South Korea since she was announced as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature last October. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Girl, 7, who had no symptoms diagnosed with brain tumour after mum spotted tiny signs

'It should be as normal as going to the hairdressers or going to see a dentist'

Science

23 h. ago Mum urges all parents to do one thing after girl started seeing spots

Sophie says the routine should 'be normal' for all children

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42 h. ago Mum recalls 'worst day of life' as she learned mudslide had taken 'baby girl' away

Mum Michelle Harrison told of the moment police revealed her little girl Leah Harrison, 10, had been swept away and killed by a mudslide as she crossed a stream during a trip to the Carlton adventure centre on the North Yorkshire Moors

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58 h. ago Bangladesh 'failing to provide evidence' against Tulip Siddiq after former minister issued anti

EXCLUSIVE: Lawyers for the Labour MP decry allegations by Bangladeshi authorities she received land illegally from deposed PM and aunt as ‘false and vexatious’

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64 h. ago Mark Rylance condemns music festivals for turning London park into ‘prison camp’

The Oscar-winner has backed a petition to stop Brockwell Live ‘destroying’ the south London park and its wildlife.

Events

3 d. ago ‘I’ve woken up with them on my face’: Portuguese millipede infestation horrifies Wellington

Residents in the city’s south despair amid swarm of putrid-smelling arthropods that mate inside buildingAt a visitor centre on the south coast of New Zealand’s capital, the blustery, briny wind is no match for the smell of thousands of decaying millipedes, which reek like decomposing vermin and rotting fish.Along the streets of Wellington’s Ōwhiro Bay, dead curled up millipedes are piled up on the footpath, as live ones march along the street. One resident says her neighbours collected five rubbish bags worth of the creatures in a week from around their home. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘I’ve woken up with them on my face’: millipede infestation horrifies Wellington

Residents in the city’s south despair amid swarm of putrid-smelling arthropods that mate inside buildingAt a visitor centre on the south coast of New Zealand’s capital, the blustery, briny wind is no match for the smell of thousands of decaying millipedes, which reek like decomposing vermin and rotting fish.Along the streets of Wellington’s Ōwhiro Bay, dead curled up millipedes are piled up on the footpath, as live ones march along the street. One resident says her neighbours collected five rubbish bags worth of the creatures in a week from around their home. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Mum pins hopes on 'miracle' asthma treatment to save her little girl

Ariana Boyle’s mum, Sammi Gilmour, fears she will lose her daughter as a result of severe attacks that have hospitalised her more than 50 times.

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5 d. ago Ruben Amorim defends Man Utd star despite struggles in historic Wolves defeat

Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim called upon his team to provide more goals after failing to trouble the scoresheet in defeat to Wolves at Old Trafford but defended Rasmus Hojlund

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6 d. ago London council refuses to house homeless young mother after leaving her sofa surfing while pregnant

Hounslow council was told to offer the woman and her baby its next available suitable home after its failures meant she missed out on a number of secure tenancies, but it has refused

Society

6 d. ago London council spent £13,400 making public toilets gender neutral

Kingston Council paid thousands to make toilets at Latchmere Recreation Ground in Battersea gender neutral

Economics

6 d. ago ‘The Salt Path gave us back our life’: walking back to happiness on Cornwall’s South West Coast Path

As a film of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path is released, we follow in her footsteps along the Cornish section‘I want to tell you something. I have a stage 4 brain tumour, and I don’t know how long I have left.” When fellow walker Peter utters these words to me at the Minack theatre in Porthcurno on Cornwall’s south coast, I half think he might be reading lines for a new play. Behind him, the waves are dancing, while mist swirls on the wind as though spooling from a smoke machine.It had only been an hour since I first met him and his wife, Michelle, as we all took shelter from the freezing wind in a hut at nearby Gwennap Head. I had asked why they were walking the South West Coast Path – the 630-mile (1,014km) trail that weaves its way from the seaside town of Minehead in Somerset around to Poole harbour in Dorset, via the windswept headlands, secluded coves and beaches of Devon and Cornwall. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Sheer heartache for Edinburgh Rugby as Sharks bite right at death to dent play

Mapimpi scores right at end to nab win for South Africans

Events

7 d. ago London council refuses to house homeless young mother left sofa surfing while pregnant

Hounslow council was told to offer the woman and her baby its next available suitable home after its failures meant she missed out on a number of secure tenancies, but it has refused

Society

7 d. ago Girl, 3, beaten to death by other kids as mum leaves eight of them to go gambling

Blessing Buckles, three, was left with seven other children unattended in a home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when her mum Dineshia Yates and her friend Terica Scott went to a casino

Events

7 d. ago New £4million lido to open in the UK next year with pool, kids' splash park and spa

Britain's lido revival continues, with an East London council announcing it will open a year-round lido in Ilford ahead of next summer - four years after the original swim complex closed.

Economics

7 d. ago Ice cream vans could be banned near Greenwich Park after council row

Plans to prohibit ice cream vans from trading on a street next to Greenwich Park are one step closer to fruition in the latest chapter of a drawn-out saga that has already cost the taxpayer thousands.

Events

7 d. ago West London council refuses to house homeless young mother left sofa surfing while pregnant

Hounslow council was told to offer the woman and her baby its next available suitable home after its failures meant she missed out on a number of secure tenancies, but it has refused

Society

7 d. ago Kensington and Chelsea admits ‘rushed’ Grenfell housing purchases were unsafe

The admission comes as the council seeks to sell off 14 of the homes

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