11 h. ago Teenage friends saw nightmarish sight that terrified them while paddleboarding

Two teenage girls were enjoying Independence Day on the water when they came across a horrifying sight. A shocking photo captured the terrifying image.

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45 h. ago Speeding Audi driver, 17, told worried friend 'I know these lanes, mate' before horror crash left him and two friends dead just a day after passing his test

Three teenage friends died in a horror crash after a 'naïve, young and inexperienced' driver lost control of his Audi the day after passing his test, an inquest heard today.

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6 d. ago Body of teenage boy pulled from Suffolk river after he entered water with friends

A massive multi-agency search was launched yesterday to try and locate the boy who had entered the River Waveney with friends but had not resurfaced, police said

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8 d. ago Mother and friend of teenage drowning victim urge people to stay safe in the sea

Joe Abbess, 17, and Sunnah Khan, 12, died after getting caught in a rip current on Bournemouth beach in May 2023.

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9 d. ago Mum and friend of teenage drowning victim urge people to stay safe in the sea

Joe Abbess, 17, and Sunnah Khan, 12, died after getting caught in a rip current on Bournemouth beach in May 2023.

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2 w. ago Teenager jailed for killing school friend in east London park

The teen was found guilty of the manslaughter of 15-year-old Pharrell Garica

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2 w. ago Teenager jailed for stabbing school friend to death in east London park

Teenager jailed for stabbing school friend to death in east London park  Metropolitan Police

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2 w. ago ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to spaceHideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Aus...

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3 w. ago My unexpected Pride icon: indie breakup songs said all the things I couldn’t say to other boys

From John Lennon’s takedown of Paul McCartney to the Libertines’ Can’t Stand Me Now, songs by straight men about falling out with their friends were strangely romantic to meWhen I was a teenager, in the late 00s in central Scotland, being gay was something I experienced as painful made me feel overwrought. This didn’t match the depiction of gayness I encountered in mainstream culture at the time, which was mostly very cheerful. Almost all of the gay men on my radar were comedians – figures such as Graham Norton and Alan Carr, both of whom I found funny and still admire today, but who were too easy-going and unpretentious to satisfy my desire to see myself as a tortured poet.When I got to university, I found the representation I was looking for – solemn and beautiful – in writers such as Edmund White and James Baldwin, but earlier in my teenage years I had to make do with what was available: romanticising being gay through songs about straight men falling out with their platonic frie...

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3 w. ago ‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives

The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generation of women?When Miranda July’s All Fours was published in May last year, it triggered what felt like both a spontaneous resistance movement and the sort of mania last experienced when the final Twilight book dropped, except this time for women in midlife rather than teenage girls. Two friends separately brought it to my house, like contraband dropped out of a biplane. Book groups hastily convened, strategically timed for when the men were out of the picture.The story opens with a 45-year-old woman about to take a road trip, a break from her husband and child and general domestic noise. She’s intending to drive from LA to New York, but is derailed in the first half hour by a young guy, Davey, in a car hire place, to whom she is passionately attracted. The next several weeks pas...

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