1 hour ago Mental Health Foundation inviting entries for 'Community' category of photography competition

Ahead of Mental Health Awareness Week, the charity is seeking photos that "reflect the power of community to support good mental health".

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7 h. ago 'Our tot was diagnosed with rare cancer after we spotted odd reflection in photos'

Two-year-old Shuhd Garcia was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer after her parents noticed something unusual in photos of the little tot. It ultimately saved her life

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4 d. ago Fitness trainer has 90% of his jaw removed after horrific facial cancer

A fitness influencer was forced to have his have his lower jaw amputated after he was diagnosed with a rare form of oral cancer .

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5 d. ago Paul McCartney says ‘what you saw was what you got’ with Twiggy in film trailer

The latest trailer for the documentary shows the model posing for photographers, being interviewed and reflecting on her career.

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5 d. ago I was hounded in the street for getting 'underage woman' pregnant

Lyndsey, a 24-year-old from the UK, had a rare form as cancer as a child which affected her development and led her to have an exceptionally youthful appearance.

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5 d. ago The Face Magazine: Culture Shift review – rebellious fashion photography with a raucous sense of fun

National Portrait Gallery, LondonThe style monthly was loud, left-field and unabashedly British. The 200 images from 50 photographers on show reflect its furious energy and explosive creative couplings SPEED SEX GORE AGGRO promised a 1998 cover of the Face. The cover star was Alexander McQueen, looking like a revenant with blanched white skin and blood-red eyes. “He wanted to express the idea of the burning rage felt by Joan of Arc being burned at the stake,” the photographer Nick Knight recalls.In its initial run between 1980 and 2004, the cult style magazine served this kind of madness every month to its avid young readers. The Face even managed to make David Beckham dirty, with soy sauce and coffee dribbling down his abs. This exhibition is suitably splashy, and with more than 200 photographs by 80 photographers it convincingly demonstrates the publication’s influence and audacity. It is a riotous romp through two decades of British fashion, from New Romantics to Gothic Romantics...

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6 d. ago ESA space telescope spots 'odd couple' of stars in 'rare discovery'

The mysterious pair could hold the key to the fate of massive stars

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7 d. ago Neighbours icon told he'd be 'dead in weeks' before astonishing scan results

Actor Ian Smith, who played Harold Bishop in the soap for more than two decades, was diagnosed with an aggressive and rare form of lung cancer and told he would be dead within weeks

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7 d. ago Terrifying fish washes up on Canary Islands beach and people say same thing

A video captured on social media shows the odd fish spotted off the coast of the Canary Islands – and it has seriously spooky connotations in Japanese folklore

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7 d. ago Neighbours legend shares huge health update after being told he won't live past March

Ian Smith, who played Harold Bishop on Neighbours, was told he had just weeks to live after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer, but he's now defying the odds

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9 d. ago British professor makes ‘thrilling’ breakthrough for cancer that killed his mother

Paul Workman has researched untreatable chordoma for years. Now new technology points towards to a potential drug to beat itProfessor Paul Workman was 37 and already well established as a medical researcher when his mother, Ena, died of a rare bone cancer known as chordoma. About one in a million people are affected by the condition, which is untreatable.“It was utterly frustrating,” said Workman, who later became head of the Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery and then chief executive of the Institute of Cancer Research, London. “Thirty-six years ago, there was little we could do to treat chordoma. There was little understanding of the disease and no drugs were available to help my mother.” Continue reading...

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