5 h. ago Raye says she’s been single ‘for so long’ as she reflects on heartbreak and hopes of finding love

The Escapism hit-maker also addressed reports she is dating F1 star Lewis Hamilton

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18 h. ago ‘I’m from where you learn to run before you can walk’: the comic strip artist telling the story of DRC’s conflict

Edizon Musavuli uses his art to depict the daily struggles and constant insecurity of living in the rebel-occupied city of GomaIn the early hours of the morning, Baraka, a young boy, wanders through the streets of Goma. He takes a wrong turn and runs into bandits. Back home, his father flicks through TV channels while his mother counts bags of flour. No one speaks. The silence is broken only by crackles on the radio.By evening, Baraka is sitting on the shore of Lake Kivu, looking south to Bukavu and east towards Rwanda, finding no hope in either direction. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Married At First Sight UK 2025 trailer reveals four new couples, twist, turns and tantrums

It's that time again when a new batch of hopefuls blindly walk down the aisle in search of finding eternal love but within their journey there is bound to be a few bumps in the road

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4 d. ago BBC Breakfast guests say 'there's no peace' as they search for missing friend

Sarm Heslop's friends and family have not given up hope of finding out what happened to her after she went missing from a boat in the US Virgin Islands

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5 d. ago New specialist clinic aims to give better access to advanced genetic testing

It comes as scores of people in the region face travel to Great Britain in hopes of finding a diagnosis.

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7 d. ago England v South Africa: first men’s T20 international gets under way after rain delay – live

Over-by-over coverage of the first T20Get in touch with Tim to share your thoughts“Shame (but very predictable) about the current weather,” says Alfie Sparrow, although his email is actually about something else. “I’ve just moved into London, living in Tooting with some old uni mates. I was wondering if any readers have local cricket club recommendations? Played alongside Bas de Leede growing up in the Netherlands, winning 3 national titles in our age group. Wish I could say I was still near his quality but that’s far from the case – just after a friendly club for next summer.” Hope you find one.“My girlfriend has very tentatively started to get into cricket,” reports Charles Aspden. “And we discussed potential telly programmes which would further entice her in. In true Alan Partridge fashion, she wants to see ‘Tea with Amol Rajan,’ a show somewhere between Bake Off and Grandstand. Amol travels the country to try the best and worst teas around the village, county and international g...

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7 d. ago England v South Africa: first men’s T20 international, start delayed by rain – live

Over-by-over coverage of the first T20Get in touch with Tim to share your thoughts“Shame (but very predictable) about the current weather,” says Alfie Sparrow, although his email is actually about something else. “I’ve just moved into London, living in Tooting with some old uni mates. I was wondering if any readers have local cricket club recommendations? Played alongside Bas de Leede growing up in the Netherlands, winning 3 national titles in our age group. Wish I could say I was still near his quality but that’s far from the case – just after a friendly club for next summer.” Hope you find one.“My girlfriend has very tentatively started to get into cricket,” reports Charles Aspden. “And we discussed potential telly programmes which would further entice her in. In true Alan Partridge fashion, she wants to see ‘Tea with Amol Rajan,’ a show somewhere between Bake Off and Grandstand. Amol travels the country to try the best and worst teas around the village, county and international g...

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7 d. ago Fergus Neal: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The standup shares his list of classic Australian japers – including Judith Lucy, Norman Gunston, Paul Hogan and Black ComedyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe internet for me started off as forbidden fruit. Attending a Steiner school meant anything online or online-adjacent was banned. It was the type of education where you don’t learn how to read or write until year 5 but the school made it mandatory to learn the violin and Chinese in year 1.What ensued was my peers and I graduating as an illiterate, Mandarin-speaking orchestra – at one of the only government Steiner schools in Australia. I assume if you put those skills into seek.com, the computer explodes. I quite hope the government doesn’t find out – I can assure them I have contributed to the economy exponentially by selling mid-winter lanterns and beeswax at farmers markets in Nimbin and its surrounds to enlightened fluoride-free minds. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Protein discovery may lead to Alzheimer’s treatment even before symptoms start

Researchers hope findings could help delay symptoms by five or six years

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8 d. ago Apple pledges to reduce burden of ‘silent killer’ with new watch

The tech giant hopes to find a million people with undiagnosed high blood pressure over the next 12 months.

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2 w. ago Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice

Philip Larkin wrote that ‘days are where we live’. Even in the bleakest of times, there are things you can do to improve yours. Former children’s laureate Rosen has some suggestions It hardly needs saying but I’ll say it anyway: we live in hard times. Things that some of us thought could and should have been solved haven’t been solved. Things that some of us thought would show signs of progress haven’t progressed. In many ways, wherever we look – locally, nationally or globally – there are things that have got worse. I don’t need to list them.I’m going to make a big claim: we can’t do anything about the things that bring us down if we are oppressed and depressed by them. We have to have hope. We need to be hopeful creatures in order to live. No matter how much events seem to point towards despair, telling us to be pessimistic, I think we have to find strategies and techniques to be hopeful. In spite of everything, we have to find reasons to go on. As someone once put it in a book, “...

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3 w. ago An influencer plagiarised my life story on TikTok. Social media thrives on mimicry – but this was a step too far | Esme Hewitt

At its best, the internet can be a space where people share stories and ideas. But the line between inspiration and theft can easily become blurredLast month, I wrote an article about being adopted by a British couple during the era of China’s one-child policy. Three days after the story ran in a national newspaper, my phone buzzed with a flurry of messages from a friend who had sent me a TikTok post by an influencer telling her life story to camera. Twenty seconds into her video, my jaw plummeted. She had recited entire sections of my article, word for word, to her 20,000 followers. She didn’t even have the courtesy to give me a credit.When I wrote that piece, the idea of exposing personal details of my life to scrutiny or criticism was terrifying. Even so, it felt right to share this story in the hope that others might find comfort if they too had had similar experiences. What I wasn’t expecting was for someone to take my words and claim them as their own. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Hope, joy, absurdity and marvel: there is so much more to our world story than loss

Amid environmental tragedy, a hidden world of curiosity and wonder still exists. And in this, says Natalie Kyriacou, we can find glimmers of hopeThe last great auk, it is said, was strangled unceremoniously in its sleep in 1844. Plump and penguin-like, the great auk had survived for hundreds of thousands of years until humans discovered the utility of its soft down feathers, eggs and meat. Great auks mate for life, and it was on Eldey island in Iceland where the final pair on Earth met their fate at the hands of three fishermen who fell upon them.“I took him by the neck and he flapped his wings. He made no cry. I strangled him,” said the man who killed the last of a species. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Shelter dog offers cuddly toys to everyone passing her kennel in hopes of finding forever home

Peanut brings a cuddly toy to every single person who walks past her kennel and even takes one on all of her walks in the hopes of finding a forever home.

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3 w. ago Liverpool transfer news: Alexander Isak finds new hope as Reds sanction Anfield exit

Alexander Isak to Liverpool remains the talk of the transfer window depsite Newcastle's apparent unwillingness to do business while Arne Slot could still see more changes to his squad in the coming days

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