87 m. ago Thunderbolts* review – Florence Pugh is saving grace of Marvel’s hit

The Oscar nominated actor is the most impressive member of a ragtag Suicide Squad-esque team in an often charmingly unusual yet still baggy adventureThunderbolts* can be messy. Not just the movie, with its clumsily forced narrative beats and whiplash tonal shifts. But also, its title characters, the broken and lonely souls who ditch the colourful costumes and wear their emotions on their sleeves, as if it’s their brand.These reluctant heroes, led by Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, the troubled sister to Scarlett Johansson’s late Black Widow, are defined by how much they need therapy. They wrestle with themselves more than the bad guys, in a way that’s more pronounced than the most unstable among Marvel’s stable of wisecracking world saviors. They’re endearingly vulnerable, at times devastatingly so, and yet still fun and exciting enough to save Marvel. Continue reading...

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88 m. ago 'Triple shooting' on busy London street as one rushed to major trauma centre

Police and ambualnce crews in London were called to the scene of a shooting where three people suffered gunshot wounds

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91 m. ago Surprising hacks to remove summer pests from cars and avoid £1,000 fine

As the weather starts to get warmer, more people are battling with summer car issues but car experts are keen to share some simple ways to ensure you avoid any unexpected fines

Economics

96 m. ago Forest Gate 'triple shooting': 3 hospitalised in broad daylight horror on London street

Three people have been injured in a triple shooting in on Upton Lane in Forest Gate, London, this afternoon - we'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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98 m. ago 'Being ditched as an NHS dental patient feels like a kick in the teeth'

Outcry as practice bids to move people to private plans

Science

2 h. ago Love Island All Stars couple spark split rumours after awkward TikTok

The Love Island All Stars couple have sparked split rumours

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2 h. ago Troubled SafeSport Center looks for a new leader and tries to chart a different course

The Associated Press spoke to more than a dozen people familiar with the U.S. Center for SafeSport to gauge the next moves it must take to rebuild trust after the ouster of its CEO last week

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2 h. ago Former school athletic director gets 4 months in jail in racist AI deepfake case

A former high school athletics director accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic deepfake of a Maryland principal has been sentenced to four months in jail as part of a plea deal for disturbing school operations

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2 h. ago Soaring Fringe costs mean comedy is 'becoming more elitist', leading stand

The ‘Edinburgh model’ is making it ‘almost impossible’ for working class people to become comedians

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2 h. ago Soaring Fringe costs mean comedy is 'becoming more elitist', comedian Matt Forde warns

The ‘Edinburgh model’ is making it ‘almost impossible’ for working class people to become comedians

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2 h. ago The ‘rat person’ trend is here – and I thoroughly approve | Arwa Mahdawi

Do you like sleeping, eating and scrolling? Me too. What if I told you this was also a way to protest capitalism?Somewhere in Zhejiang province, China, a woman is living my dream. She gets up in the morning and then, almost immediately, goes back to bed. She lies prostrate all day long, scrolling, eating some food, opening some packages, showering at 2am, then snoozing again. As a longtime sleep enthusiast – and the mother of a child who thinks that 5am is a good time to start the day, all systems go – I think this sounds like bliss.The woman in Zhejiang is known as @jiawensishi – and also “rat person”. I am not being rude; that’s what she calls herself. There are lots of rat people out there: it’s a whole trend in China. You might have heard of the “lying flat” movement a few years ago, when young people lazed around displaying symptoms of mild depression, and some thinkers, including the novelist Liao Zenghu, theorised that it was a passive-aggressive resistance movement, rebellin...

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2 h. ago 100 men v one gorilla: who would win – and why has the question gone viral?

People are still debating this online after five years, and suddenly more hotly than ever. Even if it is ever answered, that still leaves us to tackle man v bear ...Name: 100 men v one gorilla.Age: The debate seems to have begun in 2020, on Reddit, when a poster asked the question in a r/whowouldwin subreddit, a forum for hypothetical discussions on myriad subjects. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago EU told citizens to stockpile in case of disaster less than a month before huge outages in Spain

The widespread outage left thousands of people stranded in trains and elevators yesterday, while millions saw phone and internet coverage die.

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2 h. ago Pensioners have purses, money and phones stolen in Greater Manchester shops

'The elderly people didn't even know they had even been a victim until afterwards'

Economics

2 h. ago Scientists explore slush drinks as 'simple strategy' to prevent heatstroke in older people

British scientists are studying the effects of cold slush drinks to help ward off heat-related illnesses in older people

Politics

2 h. ago Etiquette expert reveals when it is acceptable to take off your shoes on a plane

For some people, the thought of keeping their shoes on for an entire flight is unbearable. But is it ever really acceptable to take your shoes off on a plane?

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2 h. ago Five people rushed to hospital after 'severe' blaze in Walsall and gas explosion in Bristol send homes up in flames

Emergency services were called to Walsall last night after an inferno left a two-storey, mid-terraced house completely decimated. And just seven hours later, a separate house in Bristol went up in flames.

Society

3 h. ago Foreign Office warns Brits there ‘may be travel disruption’ to these two European countries

Millions of people were left without mobile phone coverage and internet and there was huge disruption on the roads and public transport after a huge power cut

Events

3 h. ago The real reason why toilet roll dispensers in public bathrooms have to be locked

People are curious as to why the plastic enclosure for toilet paper is locked, taking to California-based Q&A website Quora in search of answers.

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3 h. ago The Handmaid's Tale fans predict Janine and Angela's escape but there's bad news for June

The Handmaid's Tale fans have predicted Janine's ending

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