61 h. ago Doping at your doorstep: The next Olympic drug crisis could be coming through the mail

A new wave of peptides, often banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, is easily available online, raising concerns about potential Olympic doping scandals

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7 d. ago Alex Jones 'cooks turkey with Sydney Sweeney' as AI Thanksgiving dinner photos spread online

In the latest bizarre use of artificial intelligence, someone on the internet has created an image of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones having a Thanksgiving meal with Sydney Sweeney

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1 week ago 'I survived the Jim Jones mass suicide and I know why so many made appalling decision'

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: 'Their bodies were left out in the open, in the middle of the rainforest, in a foreign country'

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2 w. ago Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones by Robert Ross review – portrait of a Python

An affectionate biography of the polymath includes details of never-produced gems such as Monty Python’s Third World WarTerry Jones was a Python, a historian, a bestselling children’s author and a very naughty boy. He loved to play women in drag, started a magazine about countryside ecology (Vole), founded his own real-ale brewery and was even once a columnist for this newspaper, beginning one piece in 2011 like this: “In the 14th century there were two pandemics. One was the Black Death, the other was the commercialisation of warfare.” He even used to write jokes for Cliff Richard.It would be tempting in view of all this to call him a renaissance man, except that Jones rather despised the highfalutin Renaissance, preferring the earthiness of medieval times: his first published book was a scholarly reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, arguing that the hero’s fighting and pillaging was being presented satirically by the poet as something deplorable. Later he raided the Norse ...

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2 w. ago LIZ JONES: The only beings in the world who love me have fur. One more can't hurt

In which I say goodbye - and hello.

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3 w. ago Olympics drug cheat Marion Jones was the world's fastest woman in 2000. Now a shocking video shows her struggling just to walk down a flight of stairs

She was the toast of the sporting world when she won gold after gold at the Sydney Olympics - but now Marion Jones, 50, has revealed her health struggles in a shocking video.

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