14 h. ago I'm a nurse, this it the worst baby name I've ever heard that keeps me awake at night

The unnamed woman, who lives in Germany, noted that name rules are stricter in the country, which can decide to block outlandish monikers from being used.

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18 h. ago Nurses share the 'worst' baby name they've heard that keeps people up at night

A woman has shared her disgust after hearing the 'worst' baby name ever given to a child at a Germany hospital - and it has made her second guess everything

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43 h. ago No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair

Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach challengesAccording to Rebecca Solnit, a lot of us are suffering from something called moral injury. She describes this as the “deep sense of wrongness” that can infiltrate our lives when we realise we are complicit in something seriously bad.The first time I experienced this in relation to climate change, I was changing my baby’s nappy soon after one of the worst Australian wildfire seasons on record in 2020. The nappy featured a smiling cartoon koala on the front. I immediately recalled the scene of a singed, parched koala being fed water from a plastic bottle by a human as it fled the inferno. A disposable nappy takes up to 500 years to decompose. I felt disgust and despair at the degree of consumption, waste and exploitation that even a modest lifestyle in a high-income country seems to entail. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The Bombing of Pan Am 103 review – this kind, cheesy Lockerbie show just doesn’t work as TV

It was an act of terrorism that rocked the world. But though this well meaning BBC drama has some startling and impressive moments, it mainly forgets to actually find any dramaThe bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988 was an event so large, so complex and so significant that for a long time it was hard for anyone to take a clear view on it. Many elements remain murky to this day, despite – or perhaps because of – it being an act of terror that was unprecedented in its effect on Britain and the US. The plane exploded over the small town of Lockerbie in Scotland, having taken off from London on its way to New York and Detroit, completing a journey that began in Frankfurt. The hunt for the perpetrators soon focused on the Middle East and north Africa. With half the world demanding answers, the families of the 270 people killed found it difficult to be heard.The hidden human cost of the post-crash chaos is where The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a six-part fictionalisation, initiall...

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7 d. ago Pictured: Firefighters who died in huge blaze at former RAF base

Three people died after explosions were heard at Bicester Motion on Thursday.

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7 d. ago Man and two firefighters killed in fire at former RAF base named

Three people died after explosions were heard at Bicester Motion on Thursday.

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1 week ago Kim Kardashian trial live: Stylist Simone Harouche ‘heard screaming’ and feared star was being raped

Celebrity stylist Simone Harouche tells court she heard Kardashian pleading for her life as 10 people face trial over $10m jewellery heist in Paris apartment in 2016

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3 w. ago Why we shouldn’t turn up our noses at New Zealand sauvignon blanc

Wine snobs can be a bit sniffy about it, but New Zealand sauvignon blanc is one of the most widely drunk whites in the UKBesides Provençal rosé (a column for another day), New Zealand sauvignon blanc has to be one of the most successfully marketed wines of the past century. This grape is, of course, planted around the world, and originally French, but it has become so wrapped up in the identity of New Zealand wine, and so at the forefront of our minds, that several people I know who have heard of New Zealand’s take didn’t know that sauvignon blanc also constitutes many appellation wines from the Loire and Bordeaux.It was 1973 when the first sauvignon blanc vines were planted in Marlborough, and were initially intended to be blended with müller-thurgau, which at the time was one of the region’s more popular grape varieties. That’s almost unthinkable now, when Marlborough is by far the most famed region for sauvignon blanc, with about 25,000 hectares of vines, low rainfall and long, s...

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3 w. ago Several people injured in Uppsala after reports of gunfire, police say

Police say people ‘have been found with injuries that indicate gunfire’ after loud bangs heard in Swedish citySwedish police said on Tuesday that several people in the city of Uppsala in eastern Sweden had been found with injuries that indicated gunfire after loud bangs were heard in the city.The police said in a statement that they had received calls from members of the public who said they had heard noise that sounded like gunfire in the centre of the city. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Three killed in 'mass shooting' at Sweden market square as suspect fled on scooter

Three people have been killed after gunshots were heard in the Swedish city of Uppsala earler today - police were reported to be searching for a suspect on a scooter

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3 w. ago 'I'm a maternity nurse and these triplet baby names are the worst I've ever heard'

Many parents will want to give their little ones names as unique as they are - but one maternity nurse said that these triplet names were the worst she'd heard

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4 w. ago Major airport in lockdown after 'shooting' as person given CPR and cops swarm

Local news outlet Global has claimed that one of their own staff members arriving at the airport said they 'heard what appeared to be the sounds of gunshots and people screaming'

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4 w. ago Major airport in lockdown after 'shooting' as paramedics and cops swarm scene

Local news outlet Global has claimed that one of their own staff members arriving at the airport said they 'heard what appeared to be the sounds of gunshots and people screaming'

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4 w. 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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