1 hour ago The pulmonaut: how James Nestor turned breathing into a 3m copy bestseller

It is the most essential thing we do - yet many of us arguably breathe badly. The author of Breath explains how that can be changedIn the last stages of writing his book, Breath, James Nestor was stressed. “Which was ironic when writing a book about breathing patterns and mellowing out,” he says. The book was late; he’d spent his advance and was haemorrhaging even more money on extra research that was taking him off in new, potentially interesting, directions – was it really necessary, he wondered, to go to Paris to look at old skulls buried in catacombs beneath the city? (It was.)Then a couple of months before the book’s May 2020 publication date, the Covid pandemic hit, and Nestor was advised to wait it out. He couldn’t afford to. “One of the main motivations for releasing it at that time was to get that [on-publication] advance,” he says. “But I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to release it. I said: ‘How are you going to promote a book that can’t be sold in stores, that I can’t tour ...

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4 h. ago Revealed: The truth about how an Egyptian tennis player's professional debut turned into the 'worst in sports history'

Hajar Abdelkader, 21, disappeared after footage of her extraordinarydefeat by Lorena Schaedel, 24, at an International Tennis Federation (ITF) event in Nairobi went viral.

Sport

9 h. ago Revealed: The secret room hidden beneath China's 'super embassy'

Unredacted plans supposedly shows a hidden room in the north west corner of the building, which is just metres away from a vital cable network connecting London's top financial sectors.

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10 h. ago Prehistoric discoveries beneath a US lake found to be older than Egypt's Great Pyramid

An amazing find in a Wisconsin lake has rewritten the timeline of advanced cultures in North America by centuries.

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10 h. ago China plans to build 'secret room' beneath new London super embassy, redacted documents show

A decision on the embassy is due to be made on January 20 amid critics fears site could be used for espionage

Culture

13 h. ago Urgent Sainsbury’s product recall issued over 'possible health risk'

The supermarket has pulled its slow-cooked lamb shoulder after discovering milk was not listed on the label, posing a potential risk to those with allergies

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13 h. ago Why Egypt should be the next destination on your wishlist for 2026

Egypt should be on your wishlist for 2026 - here’s five itineraries which look and feel different.

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15 h. ago Woman gobsmacked after discovering true value of 74p earrings from flea market

A savvy shopper was left speechless after stumbling across a special earrings at a flea market - and after researching the item online, she realised its true value

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16 h. ago Why the Lake District shouldn't introduce tourism tax, says Cumbria tourism boss

The Lake District National Park Partnership (LDNPP) recently released a report setting out its vision for 'world-class sustainable travel' in the national park - which could result in vehicle taxes for visitors.

Economics

18 h. ago Losing is horrible but even us Crystal Palace fans smiled for Macclesfield

We can relate to the struggles their club has experienced in recent years so can only wish them well in the FA CupBy The Football Mine“And that is the last kick of the match. One of the greatest FA Cup giantkillings has happened here in the sunshine at the Moss Rose. The holders, Crystal Palace, have been knocked out. What a turnaround of fortunes for Crystal Palace: winners at Wembley in May, losers in Macclesfield in January.” John Murray, speaking on BBC radio, provided the epitaph to Palace’s dismal, desperate defeat by a mid-table team from the National League North.As everyone now knows, the gap of 117 places in the football pyramid is the largest ever to be overcome by a lower-placed club in 155 years of the oldest competition in the football world. The fact that the last kick was propelled into the sky by the Silkmen’s captain Paul Dawson was apposite. Dawson had set the tone from the outset. Within 10 seconds of kick-off he had put in the first of countless robust challenge...

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31 h. ago If we silence voices we don’t agree with, we’re doing the work of extremists for them | Peter Greste

I do not need to share Randa Abdel-Fattah’s views to believe that removing her is wrong. This is why I’ve withdrawn from Adelaide writers’ weekIf there has been a bright red thread running through my career, it’s the importance of freedom of speech. It underpinned my life as a journalist and correspondent, became central to the campaign to get me out of prison in Egypt and, perhaps paradoxically, it is why I have reluctantly withdrawn from this year’s Adelaide writers’ week.On Thursday the Adelaide festival board announced it had removed the writer and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the program, not because of anything she was proposing to say at the festival but because of things she said previously, reassessed in the aftermath of the Bondi attack.Peter Greste is a professor of journalism at Macquarie University and the executive director for the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom Continue reading...

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33 h. ago 'He's a monster': Muslim mum tells of her grief and anger after her husband drowned their 'Westernised' daughter in a shallow lake

Sumaia al Najjar and her husband had gone to extreme lengths to get their young family out of war-torn Syriaand into western Europe, claiming asylum in the Netherlands.

Events

37 h. ago Inside Jake Paul’s £30m ranch with own lake, dirt track, boxing gym and plans for F1 TRACK and private jet airstrip

JAKE PAUL has built a stunning £30MILLION ranch boasting of a lake for jet skiing, dirt track and his own boxing gym. The YouTuber-turned-prizefighter has made over £200MILLION since transforming from social media star to professional boxer. And that has afforded him a £13m mansion in Puerto Rico - where he relocated in 2021. But...

Economics

39 h. ago 'We're renovating Victorian home and couldn't believe what we found in attic'

Rosie and Ben have been documenting their Victorian end terrace renovation on social media, and were left stunned by the discoveries scattered across their attic floor

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42 h. ago Body of woman pulled from Cardiff's Roath Park Lake as police swarm scene

The body of woman was recovered from Cardiff's Roath Park Lake on Sunday morning, with emergency services swarming the scene

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45 h. ago Mo Salah's AFCON return date now clear as Liverpool receive key update for Arne Slot

Mohamed Salah scored as Egypt reached the semi-final of the Africa Cup of Nations by beating Ivory Coast 3-2 - with the Liverpool forward guaranteed to miss the Burnley clash.

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46 h. ago Salah inspires Egypt with energy recalling golden generation to evoke recent history | Jonathan Wilson

Liverpool forward will face his former teammate Sadio Mané in Afcon semi against Senegal after arguably the Pharaohs’ best performance since 2008It is a long time since Egypt had a night this good. There have been two World Cup qualifications since their golden age of three successive Cups of Nations came to an end in 2010, and they’ve got to the finals of two Cups of Nations since, but this had a different feel to the knockout phases in 2017 or 2021 (played in 2022). This wasn’t grinding through, doing just enough (across the knockouts in 2017 and 2021, Egypt won one game without needing extra time or penalties; a grim 1-0 against Morocco in the 2017 quarter-final). It was taking on one of the giants of African football and beating them well. A 3-2 victory over Côte d’Ivoire was probably Egypt’s best single performance since they beat the same opposition 4-1 in the semi-finals of Ghana 2008.That game in Kumasi was always going to cast its shadow over this quarter-final. Saturday’s ...

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47 h. ago Stockport Pyramid has become the 'buffet restaurant of dreams'

It captured public imagination quite like no other in 2025 with its transformation of the iconic Stockport Pyramid - and the number of diners who have visited The Royal Nawaab is staggering.

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49 h. ago Inside secret tunnels underneath Cardiff nobody ever gets to see

Locals and visitors move through the Welsh capital not realising what is beneath their feet

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57 h. ago Egypt vs Ivory Coast live: Salah goal dumps holders out of competition as Pharaohs book semi

Egypt 3-2 Ivory Coast: Mo Salah’s goal proves the difference as Pharaohs dump holders out of Afcon and set up semi-final against Senegal

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