63 h. ago How Josie Gibson treated her medieval health condition with celebrity

The This Morning presenter revealed on Tuesday that she was suffering from gout after filming a travel show where she sampled first class air travel, living a life of luxury.

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5 d. ago Péter Erdő is a strong candidate to be the next pope – and that’s reason to be fearful | Alex Faludy

The archbishop is traditionalists’ preferred candidate for a reason: his papacy would wind back the progress made under Pope FrancisWho might be the next pope? The question is famously difficult to answer. But we can be reasonably confident that if the successful contender comes from the traditionalist camp – as opposed to the reformists – then he is likely to be Hungary’s most senior bishop, Péter Erdő.If you follow Hungarian politics then you will know of Erdő – a highly cultured man, respected for his broad learning well beyond his specialism in church law. His expertise has made him a valued consultant to Vatican bodies, while his sermons and interviews abound with historical and literary references. Yet he’s also a remote figure, lacking the common touch that defined Francis’s papacy; ascetic-looking, he’s rarely pictured smiling.Alex Faludy is a British-Hungarian freelance journalist based in Budapest, specialising in religious affairs Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 20 glorious photos of queer joy from the London trans rights protest

20 glorious photos of queer joy from the London trans rights protest  attitude.co.uk

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9 d. ago ‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth

Extraterrestrial rocks, recently delivered by a space probe, could answer the big questions about alien lifeforms and human existenceSeveral billion years ago, at the dawn of the solar system, a wet, salty world circled our sun. Then it collided, catastrophically, with another object and shattered into pieces.One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are critical for the existence of life. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pictured: British couple killed in Naples cable car crash were ‘enjoying retirement’

The pensioners died in the cable car tragedy in Monte Faito along with two other people

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1 week ago Australian police launch campaign to lure disillusioned British cops across the world

Australian Police have launched a campaign in a bid to tempt disillusioned British coppers Down Under, as ex-Brit cop Oliver Lamb (pictured) says it was the 'best decision' he ever made. 

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2 w. ago Pretty UK seaside town where you'll find one of Europe's longest sandy beaches

Burnham-on-Sea has been hailed as a 'classic' British seaside town with its picturesque Victorian pier, array of fish and chips shops and ice cream parlours - and of course the sandy shores

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2 w. ago Heartbroken fiancee and family pay tribute to 'our beautiful boy' British groom

Father-of-one Oliver Holroyd, 29, from Halifax, was enjoying drinks at the Funky Flamingo bar on March 22 when tragedy struck

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2 w. ago QCon London 2025 Day 1: Parsing Data from Space, Developer Joy, Local First Apps, Platforms

QCon London 2025 Day 1: Parsing Data from Space, Developer Joy, Local First Apps, Platforms  infoq.com

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2 w. ago Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis crushes Eimantas Stanionis to unify welterweight titles

Ennis unifies IBF, WBA titles with sixth-round TKOPhiladelphian improves to 34-0 with 30 knockoutsJaron Ennis needed that special moment. On Saturday night in Atlantic City, he seized it with both fists.The 27-year-old welterweight from Philadelphia, nicknamed Boots, systematically broke down Eimantas Stanionis with precision and force en route to a sixth-round TKO that unified the IBF and WBA titles and jolted the welterweight division back to life. In a weight class left unmoored after Terence Crawford’s dismantling of Errol Spence Jr nearly two years ago, this was its most significant fight since – and perhaps the first true spark of a new era. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US government wrongly link British man’s tattoo with Venezuelan gang

A British man was shocked to see a picture of one of his tattoos being used in US government documentation on symbols identifying Venezuelan gang members.

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2 w. ago ‘There’s so much beauty’: artists celebrate California in the wake of tragedy

The exhibition California Is Somewhere Else showcases artworks from Californians affected by the recent wildfiresThe California artist Dashiell Manley had been at work for over a year on the paintings he was to exhibit at Marianne Boesky Gallery’s elegant new show California Is Somewhere Else when fate intervened. In early January, he set the works to dry in his studio in Altadena – and two days later nearby Eaton Canyon was engulfed in flames, part of recent California wildfires. “My sense of security was shattered around 11pm on January 7th,” Manley told me via video interview. “I went in the studio and it was smoky, and all the paintings were wet.”That night, Manley’s thoughts were more preoccupied with protecting his family and grabbing on to what precious mementoes he could take with him as he fled the fires. His studio was ultimately spared, but the paintings were not: smoke and other particles embedded into the still-wet surface, ruining the pieces. “I don’t know that I’ve pr...

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3 w. ago Passenger flying business class for first time in his life was kicked off Emirates flight before it left the runway after enjoying airport hospitality 'too much'

Shaun Hewitt had boarded the jet from Newcastle to Dubai on December 12 last year, with an upgraded ticket for the first time ever and became 'abusive' when he was asked to move seats.

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3 w. ago Richness, complexity and joy: this London exhibition paints a fittingly varied picture of British working class life

Richness, complexity and joy: this London exhibition paints a fittingly varied picture of British working class life  The Art Newspaper

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3 w. ago Richness, complexity and joy: this London exhibition is a fittingly varied celebration of British working

Richness, complexity and joy: this London exhibition is a fittingly varied celebration of British working-class life  The Art Newspaper

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3 w. ago British couple found dead at New Zealand rented home pictured after wife felt 'unsafe'

Police are probing the deaths of ex-pats Claire and Ben Anderson as a murder-suicide.

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4 w. ago My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?

I have two degrees, two books to my name and I write for the Guardian. Yet I spent time in care, live at home and struggle for money. Can Karl Marx help me make sense of myself?I have been obsessed with and confused by social class all my life. Both of my grandparents grew up in Liverpool in the 1930s in traditionally working-class households. They were clever and conscientious and managed to earn scholarships to university, eventually becoming teachers. My parents have university degrees and own property; one of them is now a judge. To most people, all these things place me squarely and categorically in the middle class. But I was in special educational schools from the age of nine, spent part of my childhood in care, left education altogether at 14 and collected the dole until getting my first job in a cotton mill. All these things make me a dyed-in-the-wool prole.And yet I have two degrees, I have written two books and I freelance for the Guardian – you can’t get m...

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