1 hour ago Horrific moment thug glasses student dentist in sickening pub attack

Mark Nolan, 39, downed seven bottles of beer before launching into a sickening attack in a Liverpool pub that left one of his victims, an aspiring dentist, permanently scarred

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2 h. ago Woman arrested after dog dies following attack by 'XL Bully' on a walk

The seven-year-old dog died at the scene a

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2 h. ago Mum settled her son on sofa after he came home ill. When she went to check on him he had died

Harry Jones, four, had come home after school feeling sick before the tragic event unfolded

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3 h. ago ‘Alcohol became a second self to blame for my desire’: how drinking fuelled my experiences of sex

Since her teens, Anna Beecher used drinking as a gateway to sexual encounters, a mask for both her vulnerability and accountability. It took falling for someone in the sober light of day to realise what love wasI first got drunk at 13 in the upstairs room of a cheap Italian restaurant, sip by sip on other people’s wine. I giggled as the floor lurched, telling my companions, It’s like being on a boat.I first got paralytic at 13, a few months on. Remembering the pleasant, silly sensation I’d experienced, I went to a party and drank a pint of gin. Slipping in and out of consciousness, I was vaguely aware of piss seeping through my trousers and the kids around me debating whether or not to call an ambulance. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya review – teenage lives at the crossroads

A night of violence exposes the dynamics of race, masculinity and privilege at play in America’s schools The Marabar caves in A Passage to India represent the breakdown of order and communication as well as provoking the terrible accusation that drives EM Forster’s story. Sameer Pandya plays with a similar plot device in his compelling US-based novel, including an epigraph from Forster’s classic.It is set in southern California, where three teenage boys on the brink of adulthood – stars of their high school American football team with promising college careers ahead of them – attend a party at an abandoned house in the hills. Vikram is an Indian American, while Diego, who is Latino, lives with his academic mother. MJ is white with wealthy parents. Part of the pleasure of Pandya’s writing lies in his unravelling of identity politics – a theme explored in his debut, Members Only.Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya is published by Bloomsbury (£16.99). To support the Guardian and Observ...

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3 h. ago How and why parents and teachers are introducing young children to AI

Guardian readers share the ways and reasons they are preparing their children and students for a future that may necessitate familiarity with generative artificial intelligenceSince the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative artificial intelligence has trickled down from adults in their offices to university students in campus libraries to teenagers in high school hallways. Now it’s reaching the youngest among us, and parents and teachers are grappling with the most responsible way to introduce their under-13s to a new technology that may fundamentally reshape the future. Though the terms of service for ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other AI models specify that the tools are only meant for those over 13, parents and teachers are taking the matter of AI education into their own hands.Inspired by a story we published on parents who are teaching their children to use AI to set them up for success in school and at work, we asked Guardian readers how and why – or why not – others are...

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5 h. ago Shane Warne's tragic hotel room investigation was a 'cover up' after marathon Thai orgy

Shane Warne, 52, was found dead in his villa on the Thai island of Koh Samui in March 2022, with a police source now claiming a bottle of the sex drug Kamagra was found at the scene

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5 h. ago Rise of the catapult killer 'influencers': Children as young as 8 are brutally killing wildlife with slingshots during school time for social media clout

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The recent emergence of youngsters brutally killing wildlife with catapults for clout on the likes of Snapchat , Instagram and TikTok is a particularly sickening one.

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5 h. ago ‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killed

A nurse, a civil servant and a teacher, among thousands of Palestinians detained without charges, were not informed their relatives had died in Israeli attacks• ‘He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian hostages coming home to catastropheFor six months after it became impossible, Ahmed Wael Dababish still dreamed of a simple reunion: the day he could once again hug his wife, Asma, his two daughters and his young son.A nurse from Gaza, Dababish last saw his family in the early hours of one night in December 2023, when Israeli troops attacked a school where they had sought shelter. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago ‘He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian hostages coming home to catastrophe

Alaa Abu Zeid only discovered his wife and children had been killed after his release from an Israeli prison. His is a story repeated across Gaza• ‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killedMore than a year after his abduction by Israeli soldiers, the first thing Alaa Abu Zeid wanted to do on his return to Gaza was hold his wife and children. He didn’t know that Ali, his brother, would be the only person waiting when he arrived in Khan Younis earlier this month: Alaa’s wife, Hala, and all five of the couple’s children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike last summer.Abu Zeid, 48, the headteacher of a primary school funded by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Bureij in central Gaza, was arrested along with dozens of other men when Israeli troops raided the school turned shelter in December 2023. He would never see his family again. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Desperate search for man who vanished after walk in Scots town

Simon Adkins, 55, has not been seen or heard from since 7.15pm on Saturday.

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7 h. ago The big picture: a Chad gymnast scores top marks for determination

Behind Antonio López Díaz’s image of the inspirational Achta Derib is a story of how small changes can transform livesThe wall behind her is pockmarked and worn. She’s barefoot against a hard, cracked floor. And yet Achta Derib’s pose in this photograph by Antonio López Díaz, a finalist in the professional sports category at the Sony world photography awards, suggests reserves of determination that will carry her across continents to perform at the highest levels of her sport.For Díaz, who has been documenting her journey since 2019, Derib’s story “stands as a symbol of resilience”. She was one of hundreds of girls from Chad who joined a pioneering gymnastics class at a school outside the capital, N’Djamena. Set up in 2016 by a Chadian Jesuit priest and a Spanish club president, with support from Spain’s Ramón Grosso Foundation, the class was the first of its kind in the central African country, where nearly half the population lives below the poverty line. Chad lacked gymnastic...

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7 h. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimoniesA child of 14 is forced to walk on to a stage and strip to her underwear. Tiny and mute beneath the stacked rows of medical students, she is paraded for their benefit by a consultant psychiatrist some 44 years her senior. It is 1966 – the peak of Swinging 60s’ hedonism, liberalism and youthful counterculture – but in a locked psychiatric ward in London’s Royal Waterloo hospital, unspeakable violations are being inflicted upon patients.The perpetrator-in-chief, William Sargant, is the subject of thriller writer Jon Stock’s first nonfiction book, The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal. One of the most notorious figures in British psychiatry, Sargant initially wished to be a physician. He pivoted to psychiatry after one of his earliest pieces of research met with a humiliating reception at the Royal College of Physicia...

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8 h. ago Lollipop men and women get the chop as councils cut the vital service

Data we obtained under Freedom of Information laws shows councils employed 1,253 school crossing patrol officers in the last financial year compared to 2,574 in 2014 - a 51% reduction

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10 h. ago Mum of girl too anxious for school wins £1.5k from South London council for failing to provide education

Mum of girl too anxious for school wins £1.5k from South London council for failing to provide education  My London

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10 h. ago The unlikely port town hiding some of the best food in Wales

It's often dismissed as a drab port town bypassed by ferry passengers coming in and out of Wales, but with local seafood, artisan cafés, old-school pubs and an upscale hotel restaurant, Fishguard has much more to offer than you'd think

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11 h. ago 'We feel like we have to walk on egg shells': Tory MPs bemoan Kemi Badenoch's near ban on criticising Trump

Tory MPs are complaining about Kemi Badenoch 's 'controlling' approach and her effective ban on criticising the Trump team.

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11 h. ago Police chief blasts force after parents arrested over school WhatsApp group

Times Radio producer Maxie Allen, 50 and his partner Rosalind Levine, 46, were arrested on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications after a 'trivial' dispute.

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12 h. ago Ben Affleck bonds with son Samuel, 13, on dog walk after speaking out on 'embarrassing' Jennifer Lopez split

Ben Affleck played the role of doting dad when he went on a dog walk with son Samuel, 13, and his two German Shepards in Los Angeles, in the wake of his surprising comments about JLO divorce.

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13 h. ago Sister of head teacher Ruth Perry, who took her own life after 'inadequate' Ofsted rating, says giving ex

Ruth Perry took her own life in January 2023 after being told the school was being downgraded from Outstanding to Inadequate.

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