21 h. ago ‘Everyone will miss the socialising – but it’s also a relief’: five young teens on Australia’s social media ban

As the under-16s social media ban looms, Guardian Australia speaks to five 13 to 15-year-olds about what they will miss, and what government should be doing insteadAustralia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s will begin in just a few days. Malaysia, Denmark and Norway are to follow suit and the European Union last week passed a resolution to adopt similar restrictions. As the world watches on, millions of Australian adolescents and their parents are wondering just what will actually change come 10 December.Concerns around the negative impact social media use can have on the wellbeing of young people have been around since the quaint days of Myspace – long before those to be affected by the ban were even born.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Student 'tortured and burned alive by sick thieves for dad's cryptocurrency riches'

A 21-year-old student who confided in a uni pal about his rich dad ended up allegedly tortured then burned alive as his attackers forced him to reveal his Ukrainian dad's secret passwords

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45 h. ago 'Benidorm saved my life after hangover turned out to be something much worse'

Clare Bushell, 48, went on a five-day drinking binge in Benidorm with nine mates and believed she had alcohol poisoning when she began vomiting violently days after returning home

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49 h. ago Major airline updates cabin crew uniform to allow employees to wear the hijab

An airline has announced changes to its crew uniform, allowing female members of the crew to opt for wearing a hijab if they wish to do so. It is set to be rolled out next year.

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69 h. ago My son Antonio, 15, died with blood on his sheets and no privacy – NHS doctors failed him again and again

ANTONIO Galisi-Swallow was just 15 when he died in full view of strangers on a crowded hospital ward, his bedsheets covered in blood. The teen, from Rotherham, had only just undergone major open-heart surgery - but within days, his mum and dad were forced to watch him pass away. Antonio, who had Down syndrome, autism...

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4 d. ago Festive welcome ready for German president from King and Queen at Windsor Castle

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Budenbender, will begin a three-day visit to the UK on Wednesday.

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4 d. ago Trump’s night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president’s stamina

The 79-year-old president’s social media blitz included conspiracies, attacks on political foes and self-praiseFrom apparently nodding off in the Oval Office to a work day that often only begins in the afternoon, questions have swirled in recent weeks about the energy levels of 79-year-old Donald Trump, the oldest-ever US president.Yet on social media, the commander in chief is showing no signs of fatigue. In a furious spree Monday night on his preferred social media paltform, Truth Social, Trump posted 160 times in less than four hours, a maelstrom of messaging surpassing previous prolific bouts of ranting. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Major Loose Women cast update revealed just weeks before brutal ITV daytime TV cuts begin

THE Loose Women team have received an early Christmas gift – with the news they are now all safe from ITV’s daytime jobs axe. The channel’s swingeing cuts from January will reduce the award-winning talk show’s schedule — leaving the cast fearing there would not be enough work to go around. But bosses have decided...

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8 d. ago Hong Kong begins three days of mourning after deadly apartment fires

Families are combing hospitals hoping to find their loved ones as about 200 people still listed as missing, and at least 128 killedAn outpouring of grief was set to sweep Hong Kong on Saturday as an official, three-day mourning period began with a moment of silence for the 128 people killed in one of the city’s deadliest fires.City leader John Lee, along with senior ministers and dozens of top civil servants, stood in silence for three minutes on Saturday morning outside the government headquarters, where the flags of China and Hong Kong were flown at half-mast. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Fitness influencer dies in gruelling food 'marathon' after binging on 10,000 calories a day

Dmitry Nuyanzin, 30, attempted to consume 10,000 calories a day but died in his sleep mere weeks after beginning his 'marathon' which he undertook to promote his weight-loss business.

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8 d. ago Fitness influencer dies in junk food 'marathon' after gorging on 10,000 calories a day

In a bid to promote his weight loss programme, fitness influencer Dmitry Nuyanzin set about consuming 10,000 calories a day. Sadly, mere weeks after beginning his 'food marathon', he passed away in his sleep

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9 d. ago Daughter of Scot in coma in Turkey left sickened by deep fake scammers asking for cash

A vile fake fundraiser has forced Teigan McMahon to pause donations for her critically ill dad after scammers stole their story and images online.

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1 week ago Hong Kong fire latest: Death toll hits 55 with nearly 300 missing as police make arrests

Almost a day after the blaze began, firefighters battle to reach residents believed to be trapped on the upper floors of the Wang Fuk Court housing complex

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1 week ago Hong Kong fire latest: Death toll hits 44 with nearly 300 missing as police make arrests

Almost a day after the blaze began, firefighters battle to reach residents believed to be trapped on the upper floors of the Wang Fuk Court housing complex

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1 week ago If Epstein’s victims don’t receive justice that is a ticking time bomb | V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Millions of sexual violent survivors will not live a day longer with this torturous injusticeIt began as I finished Nobody’s Girl, the torturous and devastating account of Virginia Giuffre’s life. It was what I can only describe as a kind of corporeal attack, an existential clutch followed by days of such powerful anxiety my body was taken in bouts of uncontrollable shaking. A sense of not mattering, a virulent dread and dissolving into an all-encompassing nothingness impossible to shake. How many times as a child, after being abused by my father, had I experienced this sense of erasure and disappearance?Feeling that no matter what I did, what I accomplished, how hard I tried to lift my head above the parapet I would be cast out forever. This attack lasted days. Perhaps it was Virginia’s story, parts of which felt much like my own. Raped as a child by her father, then raped by her father’s good friend, then raped when she ran away, then the years of being raped by Ghislaine Maxwell ...

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1 week ago If Epstein’s survivors don’t receive justice that is a ticking time bomb | V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Millions of sexual violent survivors will not live a day longer with this torturous injusticeIt began as I finished Nobody’s Girl, the torturous and devastating account of Virginia Giuffre’s life. It was what I can only describe as a kind of corporeal attack, an existential clutch followed by days of such powerful anxiety my body was taken in bouts of uncontrollable shaking. A sense of not mattering, a virulent dread and dissolving into an all-encompassing nothingness impossible to shake. How many times as a child, after being abused by my father, had I experienced this sense of erasure and disappearance?Feeling that no matter what I did, what I accomplished, how hard I tried to lift my head above the parapet I would be cast out forever. This attack lasted days. Perhaps it was Virginia’s story, parts of which felt much like my own. Raped as a child by her father, then raped by her father’s good friend, then raped when she ran away, then the years of being raped by Ghislaine Maxwell ...

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1 week ago Shocking moment dad walks out on pregnant partner after discovering baby’s gender forcing mum to beg strangers for money

A GENDER reveal is supposed to be a day celebrating the upcoming birth of a new tot, and finding out its gender. But one woman has caught the shocking moment her gender reveal didn't quite go to plan. Aaliyah Soto, from the US, took to social media to share her gender reveal for her unborn...

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1 week ago Festive Brits start putting up their Christmas decorations more than FIVE weeks before the big day

Brits are getting into the festive spirit as Christmas trees have started to go up - a whole five weeks in advance of the big day. So it begs the question: When is it too early to put up your Christmas tree?

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1 week ago 4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts

4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts  UCU

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2 w. ago Road closures to begin Monday for emergency New London church repairs

Road closures to begin Monday for emergency New London church repairs  The Day

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