17 h. ago Love, actually: How intimacy survives marriage and motherhood | Saman Shad

The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades, but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving formsThe first thing a friend did when I told her the title of my book was laugh. “The Sex Lives of Married Women?” She asked. “You mean The No Sex Lives of Married Women.”I laughed too. She wasn’t wrong – married people aren’t exactly known for their thriving sex lives. And I suspect the only couples reliably having sex must be the ones who have scheduled it into their Google calendars, probably in a shared folder alongside “Bunnings trip” and “remortgage review”. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago The siege of Khartoum has lifted. Left behind are scenes of unimaginable horror | Nesrine Malik

Sudan’s capital has been hollowed out and stripped for parts, its people trampled beneath a conflict that is far from overTen days ago, in a major turning point in almost two years of war, the Sudanese army reclaimed the capital city from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia which took it over in 2023. What little we know so far paints a picture of a city ravaged by unimaginable horror.The war has sent Sudan hurtling into the largest humanitarian disaster in the world, triggering genocide in the west of the country, and starvation there and in other areas. Previously allies in power, the RSF – formalised and expanded from the remnants of the Janjaweed militia – and the Sudanese military went to war when their partnership fell apart. The victims have been the Sudanese people, whose lives were trampled beneath. Khartoum’s centrality in the war, both in its prosperity and in terms of what it represents for the RSF as the seat of power, has meant the city has been subjected to a parti...

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40 h. ago LIVE: People urged to 'avoid area' as cordon put in place outside Matalan

Police and paramedics are in attendance outside a Matalan store in Oldham this afternoon

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45 h. ago Myanmar earthquake: King Charles sends condolences after 7.7

King Charles has sent his 'deepest possible sympathy' to those affected by Friday's earthquake in Myanmar, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake caused buildings to collapse and claimed the lives of at least 1,600 people.

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49 h. ago The 'safe and friendly' area people agree is among London's best places to live

The 'safe and friendly' area people agree is among London's best places to live  Brent and Kilburn Times

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67 h. ago Partial solar eclipse live: moon blocks part of sun for people in northern hemisphere

Partial solar eclipse visible to differing degrees depending on where you watch it in the northern hemisphereHere’s a view of the sun from Dakar, Senegal:How visible today’s partial eclipse will be depends, unsurprisingly, on how clear the sky is where you are. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon blocks part of sun for people in northern hemisphere

Partial solar eclipse will be visible to differing degrees depending on where you watch it in the northern hemisphereHow visible today’s partial eclipse will be depends, unsurprisingly, on how clear the sky is where you are.What is surprising, however, is that some of the best visibility across the northern hemisphere will be above Guardian HQ in oft-rainy London, where there is barely a cloud in the sky. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Partial solar eclipse live: watch as moon to block part of sun for people in northern hemisphere

Timing differs by location, but in London it will begin at 10.07am, with the moon reach its maximum coverage of the sun at 11.03am before ending at noonThe partial solar eclipse will be visible in parts of the UK between 10am and noon on Saturday – with viewing chances best in the east where skies should be clearest – and in several other parts of the world, including western Europe, Greenland, north-west Africa and north-east North America.“It won’t be total anywhere but there are parts of Canada where it will be about 90%,” said the Royal Observatory’s Jake Foster. “So it’ll be very impressive over there.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Changing your clock? Scientists are only just beginning to understand what this does to us | Ruth Ogden

Our research in October showed that ‘falling back’ had a negative impact on women, especially mothers. Do we need to shift the way we think about time?Twice a year we change the clocks. For many it is not clear why and how this change affects us. So last October, with the help of the Guardian, a group of scientists at Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Oxford conducted a nationwide survey to understand the impact on people’s daily lives.More than 12,000 people answered questions about their wellbeing, satisfaction with life and stress levels, completing the survey in the week before the clocks went back and again in the days immediately after. When we compared the responses, we found that women’s mental health and wellbeing suffered in the immediate aftermath of the clocks going back, while men experienced greater wellbeing and greater satisfaction with life. So what does this tell us about the way we experience time?Ruth Ogden is professor of the psychology of t...

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3 d. ago The sporting teams worried about their futures amid plans for major music gigs at Cardiff park

Cardiff Council is applying for a licence to allow live music events of up to 35,000 people on Blackweir Fields

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3 d. ago My encounter from hell with Blake Lively. What she said was so mean and snarky. Now 20 people have told me THEIR encounters

Yes, it's probably annoying, but for Hollywood stars like Blake Lively , it comes with the territory.

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3 d. ago JD Vance says Denmark ‘has not done a good job by the people of Greenland’ – Europe live

US vice-president says Denmark has not ‘kept Greenland safe’ and this is why ‘President Trump’s policy is what it is’Making some of the Danish fears come true (8:23), it appears that US vice-president JD Vance could speak later from the Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, according to the Danish broadcaster TV2 reporting a notice from the European Broadcasting Union.The speech is expected 5.45pm GMT (6.45pm CET), according to the report. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Memorial plan for 2016 Pulse shooting on track after nearly a decade: ‘Like holding your breath’

After the onePulse Foundation aimed too high and folded, the City of Orlando stepped in to get the process under wayThere were times when Patty Sheehan doubted a memorial to the victims would ever be built at the site of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub, where 49 people lost their lives in 2016 in what was then the country’s deadliest mass shooting.Among the lowest points for the long-serving city commissioner was when she discovered that a gift shop was included in an ambitious original proposal for a museum to remember the survivors and those killed when a lone gunman claiming allegiance to Islamic State terrorists attacked the gay club. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago State of emergency declared in one of world's largest cities as people run for their lives

Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the Prime Minister of Thailand, declared a state of emergency and said that all relevant ministries have been activated after the earthquake struck Bangkok

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4 d. ago Myanmar Quake : Strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocks as far as Thai Capital prompting evacuations

The greater Bangkok area is home to more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high-rise apartments.

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4 d. ago The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha review – hopeless sons vs brilliant daughters

Families are at war in the new India, in a novel raising complex questions about patriotism, nationalism and how the country is changingIn Delhi the seasons are “human-fucked”, explains Tara Saxena, the narrator-protagonist of The Tiger’s Share. Autumn is the “season of smogs and mellow murderousness”; once the smoke arrives in October, “we could no longer see the sky”. Over summer the Loo, a dry “caramelising” wind, slurs through the city, while inside their flats people “lived as cheese and chocolate do in India, refrigerated”. Now and then comes the brief respite of rain. In its aftermath, people head out into the parks to enjoy the momentary cool, the only time when the air is “useably fresh, like a banana that is only one-third rotten”.Food-related imagery abounds in Keshava Guha’s second novel; you are never allowed to forget that all things – produce, people, every species – are perishable, that from the moment of our birth the decay is inbuilt, and that such a truth is all t...

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4 d. ago How Red Sea tragedy that killed six mirrors 2012 tourist disaster at the SAME spot that claimed family's life

The shocking sinking of a tourist submarine in Egypt that claimed the lives six people yesterday bore chilling echoes of another catastrophe in the same spot just over a decade ago.

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4 d. ago Elton John declares he will 'fight' President Donald Trump over cuts to AIDS relief spending as he warns 'people's lives are at stake'

Sir Elton John said he is ready to 'fight' and go 'face to face' with President Trump over cuts to AIDS relief spending.

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4 d. ago All we know about Amsterdam mass stabbing as civilian helped cop pin down 'knifeman'

The police reported five people have been injured, three of which are fighting for their lives, in a knife attack in Amsterdam's town square – as emergency services descended on the scene

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4 d. ago Egypt submarine disaster latest updates: Two children among six dead as tourist vessel sinks in Red Sea

MAILONLINE BLOG: Follow live updates as a tourist submarine carrying 44 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Egyptian cost sparking a major rescue operation.

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