46 m. ago Scientists reveal what really happens to your body when you stop drinking

Katinka van de Ven and Nicole Lee explain how the body recovers after removing alcohol from your life

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58 m. ago Experts explain how to be a good listener when someone you love is having a tough time

Sometimes, its not about offering solutions to problems, but just listening

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65 m. ago Democratic strategist points finger of blame at one person over Epstein list debacle, and it’s not Pam Bondi

David Axelrod believes that President Trump is to blame for the decisions related to the Epstein files

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68 m. ago Drake sparks upset as final Wireless set ends after just 40 minutes

The performance was a stark contrast to Saturday’s 90-minute spectacle and Friday’s slot which featured Lauryn Hill

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69 m. ago The way a child plays is the way they live’: how therapists are using video games to help vulnerable children

Minecraft and other creative games are becoming recognised as powerful means of self-expression and mental health support, including for traumatised Ukrainian refugeesOleksii Sukhorukov’s son was 12 when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. For months, the family existed in a state of trauma and disarray: Sukhorukov was forced to give up his work in the entertainment industry, which had included virtual reality and video games; they became isolated from friends and relatives. But amid the chaos, his boy had one outlet: Minecraft. Whatever was happening outside, he’d boot up Mojang’s block-building video game and escape.“After 24 February 2022, I began to see the game in a completely different light,” says Sukhorukov. I discovered that Ukrainian children were playing together online; some living under Russian occupation, others in government-controlled areas of the country that were the targets of regular missile attacks; some had already become refugees. And yet they were still ab...

Society

92 m. ago Carlos Alcaraz refuses to be friends with Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner

Carlos Alcaraz lost to Jannik Sinner in the Wimbledon final on Sunday and the Spaniard has explained why his relationship with the Italian will never be close

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95 m. ago People in Dumfries and Galloway encouraged to get on their bikes during summer holidays

Free sessions for beginners and families are being offered across the region thanks to Sustrans’ IBike Dumfries and Galloway project.

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97 m. ago Dumfries High School creating book and film to mark move from old building

Former pupils and staff are being asked to submit contributions as the school prepares to move to its new £57 million facility.

Culture

1 hour ago Prime Video drops 'beautifully made' documentary that left viewers crying 'at least 4 times'

The new docuseries features exclusive interviews with friends and family of the victims

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2 h. ago A Year With the Seals review – what to know about the elusive sea creature

A science journalist delves deep into our sometimes fraught relationship with these intelligent animals‘There is no creature born, even among the greater apes, which more resembles a human baby in its ways and its cries than a baby grey seal,” wrote the ecologist Frank Fraser Darling in 1939. Seals’ large eyes, the five digits of their flippers, their lanugo – the soft down with which they (and sometimes we) are born – all erode the mental barriers we erect between ourselves and our marine cousins. According to Faroese legend, there are even seals, known as selkies, that can shed their skins, assume human form and live undetected among us.The selkie myth is just one that appears in the Maine-based science writer Alix Morris’s compelling book, which explores seals’ fraught relationship with culture, the economy and our imaginations. She charts the varied and conflicting ways in which we conceive of these creatures: as reviled competitors for fish, magnets for great white sharks, or d...

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2 h. ago FIFA rule broken in Club World Cup final before huge scrap breaks out after Chelsea win

Chelsea's monumental win over Paris Saint-Germain reminded many of a Super Bowl, as fireworks, national anthems and a half-time show all featured at the Club World Cup finale

Sport

2 h. ago Damien Hirst is accused of 'stealing' the idea of using live flies in his work from fellow artist he went to college with in the 90s

Hamad Butt made Fly-Piece, an artwork featuring live flies, which was considered among the 'earliest works of bio-art in the UK' when it was shown at his degree show in June 1990.

Events

3 h. ago How to be a good listener when someone is going through a bad time

Focus on creating a safe space for them to share and offer support without judgement.

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3 h. ago AD FEATURE: Big summer sale on Jackery portable power stations and solar generators

You could save more than 50% at its online store, but be quick as the sale ends on July 27

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3 h. ago AD FEATURE: National Trust Cymru invites you to a packed summer of fun

Get outdoors this summer and enjoy an array of activities at its properties across Wales

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3 h. ago Air India crash pilot's medical records examined amid 'mental health issues' as probe into tragedy continues

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who was among the 260 victims of Ahmedabad disaster, reportedly considered leaving the airline to look after his elderly father

Events

3 h. ago 'I hitched ride from stranger but day later he'd cut my arms off and thrown me down cliff'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Teenager hitchhiker Mary Vincent was picked up by Lawrence Singleton, who brutally raped her and then cut off both her arms before throwing her off a cliff

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3 h. ago Inside the misunderstood relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher

On paper, Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher should have had one of the best working relationships of any monarch and Prime Minister.

Politics

3 h. ago Prince Philip believed Prince Charles 'lacked the dedication necessary to make a good king', royal insider reveals

It is no secret that King Charles III had a testy relationship with his father, Prince Philip. Their clashes during Charles's childhood were dramatised for the hit Netflix series The Crown.

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4 h. ago Men in Love by Irvine Welsh review – the Trainspotting boys grow up

Three decades on from the author’s breakthrough debut, why are we still trapped in the Trainspotting moment?It has been more than 30 years since Irvine Welsh published Trainspotting. To put that in perspective, it’s as distant to readers today as Catch-22 or To Kill a Mockingbird would have been in 1993. If you are anything like me, that doesn’t feel quite right. Because even at such a historical remove, there remains something undeniably resonant, something curiously current, about Welsh’s wiry, demotic, scabrous debut.In part, this is explained by the sheer scale of Trainspotting’s success. It was one of those genuinely rare literary events, wherein a critically acclaimed, stylistically adventurous book catches the cultural zeitgeist to such a degree that it also becomes a commercial sensation, going on to sell over a million copies. Its cultural salience was further compounded by Danny Boyle’s cinematic adaptation, one of the highest-grossing UK films of all time, a visual interv...

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