16 h. ago Only the cleverest readers can work out the boy's real mum in 7 seconds in this brainteaser

Test your brain with this tricky teaser.

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3 d. ago Maintenance worker arrested for aiding New Orleans jail escape says inmate threatened to ‘shank’ him

Jail worker charged with malfeasance over assisting escape

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4 d. ago Is it true that male pattern baldness is inherited from the mother?

It is often down to genetics, but hair loss is also affected by hormones, stress and other factorsThis is partially true, says Dr Thivos Sokratous, medical doctor and hair loss expert at Ouronyx. We all have two chromosomes (essentially strings of DNA) that code our genetic makeup. Males are born with an X chromosome, with genes inherited from their mother, and a Y chromosome, from their father.Sokratous says some studies have shown a strong link between the androgen receptor gene on the X chromosome (passed down from the mother) and male pattern hair loss, with some suggesting this gene may account for up to 70% of the risk. “But male pattern baldness is more complex than that,” he says. “It’s the combination of genes from your mum and your dad alongside other factors.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago My mum won’t let me have a smartphone. Is she being unfair? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

There are genuine concerns about young people using social media, but the main thing is that you talk to your parents about it• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a readerMy mum has always been protective, and I fear it is destroying my social life because I haven’t grown up with much access to social media. I don’t mean to say it’s OK to be exposed to social media at a young age, but it needs to be controlled in a certain way.Because I had a flip phone until the middle of secondary school, I haven’t had a TikTok or Snapchat streak with anyone because I never learned how it works. I know this might sound like me complaining over nothing, but it sometimes feels like my mum is purposely doing this to damage me. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago 'Drug mule' Bella Culley is locked up in sledgehammer killer’s Georgia jail after Brit teen's arrest

Bella May Culley is locked up at Women's Prison No.5 in Rustavi, south of capital Tbilisi, Georgia — which is understood to be home to double murderer Magda Papidze

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7 d. ago 'My mum met a stranger online – now she's in love and has given him £7,000'

JUST JANE: Today our agony aunt Jane O'Gorman is dealing with a new issue from a concerned Daily Star reader whose mum met a stranger at a bus stop and has now fallen madly in love

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8 d. ago James Argent ordered to attend rehab course or risk jail after domestic violence arrest

James Argent has been warned he must attend rehab - or risk being hauled to prison to start serving the six-month suspended jail sentence he was given after accepting the charges to ‘mistreating’ former Nicoline Artursson as part of a plea bargain deal

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9 d. ago Brit teen Bella May Culley faces LIFE in hellhole jail after arrest in Georgia 'on drug offences'

Bella May Culley, from Billingham, County Durham, was reported missing in Thailand but it has now emerged she has been detained more than 4,000 miles away in Georgia

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1 week ago Mum reads poem to judge as she's sent to jail following arrest at Betfred

Michaela Parsons swallowed 14 wraps of drugs inside the bookies

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2 w. ago Mayor of Newark Ras Baraka released after arrest at Ice jail protest

Mayor’s wife accuses government of targeting her husband as video showed him being placed in handcuffs by officialsThe mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, was arrested for alleged trespass at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center in New Jersey on Friday and released after several hours.Baraka was released shortly after 8pm and, after stepping out of an SUV with flashing emergency lights, told waiting supporters: “The reality is this: I didn’t do anything wrong.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Texas jail guard accused of helping and laughing as four inmates killed another prisoner over $40 debt

Bexar County jail detention officer Clemente Lopez Jr., 20, is accused of allowing four other inmates beat 46-year-old Francisco Bazan to death on April 28.

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2 w. ago My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world It is May 2025, it is 4am, and I am sitting up in bed, sleepless, looking out at a huge moon illuminating the still world.Eighty-five years ago, in 1940, a silently weeping seven-year-old lay on a cracked leatherette sofa in urine-soaked pyjamas, looking through an alien window, praying that that same moon would protect my mum and dad from the killer bombs falling in London. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Celebrity Big Brother fans 'spot secret message' about JoJo's relationship in Chris' letter

Celebrity Big Brother is coming to a close but fans think they spotted a hidden message by Chris Hughes' mum as JoJo Siwa read out his letter from home on the penultimate episode

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4 w. ago Eilish McColgan calls for passport ID to combat ‘faceless’ social media bullies

‘Having a verified account would make a big difference’Athlete makes London Marathon debut on SundayEilish McColgan has revealed that she has even been body-shamed by school teachers, as she called for social media companies to use formal identification to prevent the abuse she faces every day.But McColgan, who will make her London Marathon debut on Sunday, has vowed to defy the bullies by staying on social media even though she was accused of “looking like a skeleton” and having anorexia when her mum, Liz, reposted a video of her training last month. Continue reading...

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