2 h. ago Asylum seeker 'who recruited child soldiers' wins appeal to stay in Britain despite being refused refugee status in France because he's an alleged war criminal

The Sri Lankan, who remains unnamed after he was granted anonymity, faces claims he 'enlisted children under the age of 15' to separatist terrorist group Tamil Tigers.

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2 h. ago Xena Warrior Princess star dies on 61st birthday as she leaves final message

Marise Wipani, who appeared in Soldier, Soldier and Xena: Warrior Princess, has died at the age of 61, with a post appearing on her Facebook with a parting message

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48 h. ago Illegal migrant criminals are now paying $2,000 to be smuggled OUT of the US by Mexican gangs

Romanian gang members now face losing everything if they are caught by enforcement agents, with increasing numbers of migrants being picked off the street and deported.

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69 h. ago British woman held in Sri Lanka ‘could be months’ from bail hearing, lawyer warns

Charlotte May Lee is ‘coping’ with prospect of spending months longer in jail in Sri Lanka, her lawyer tells The Independent

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2 d. ago British woman jailed in Sri Lanka on drug offences could be months from bail hearing, lawyer warns

Charlotte May Lee is ‘coping’ with prospect of spending months longer in jail in Sri Lanka, her lawyer tells The Independent

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3 d. ago Calls for UK drivers over the age of 70 to face major licence change

Experts are calling for mandatory eye tests to be introduced for over 70s renewing their driving licence

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3 d. ago Siblings reunited with school photo found in charity shop 300 miles away

Chris Kirkum, one of the siblings in the photo, said he was ‘quite taken aback’ by the find.

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3 d. ago Peru Two's Michaella McCollum says Brit 'drug mules' won't survive prison

Michaella McCollum, who served three years in a Peruvian jail on drug smuggling charges, has extended her sympathies to Bella May Culley and Charlotte May Lee, both of whom face lengthy sentences she says would be far beyond her own limit

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4 d. ago 'I asked Arsene Wenger who he'd sign at Arsenal this summer – he instantly had name in mind'

Arsene Wenger was quick to name Newcastle star Alexander Isak as the player he would like to see Arsenal sign this summer, according to Gunners icon David Seaman

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4 d. ago UK's top cops say they will have to deprioritise crimes in dire warning to PM

Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and the head of the National Crime Agency say they will face 'stark choices' if Rachel Reeves wields the axe next week

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4 d. ago Katie Piper is right, ageing as a woman is like a bereavement – but most of us are stuck in the denial phase of grief

The presenter and campaigner has said that women have to come to terms with ‘ageing out of the male gaze’. But that’s becoming increasingly difficult in a world shaped by female celebrities who point-blank refuse to get any older, writes Helen Coffey

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5 d. ago Brit model 'caught smuggling £200k worth of drugs' in Spain hellhole jail

An Onlyfans model from Nottinghamshire is now stuck in a Spanish jail. Clara Wilson was charged with a drug running offence after she arrived in Barcelona in January

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6 d. ago Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to enable AI ad creation by end of next year

Move sends shock waves through traditional media industry by posing threat to advertising agenciesBusiness live – latest updatesThe owner of Facebook and Instagram is to help advertisers to fully create and target campaigns using artificial intelligence tools by the end of next year, in a move that sent shock waves through the traditional marketing industry.Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which also owns WhatsApp, aims to directly target brands’ marketing budgets, posing a threat to the advertising and media agencies that handle client campaigns and budgets. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Kris Jenner, 69, looks half her age as she shows off new face after selling wardrobe to fit her slimmer figure

Kris Jenner looked exceptionally youthful as she stepped out for a shopping spree on Friday - just days after debuting a striking new facelift that left fans doing double takes.

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9 d. ago Brit 'drug mule' could face 25 years in Sri Lanka jail over 46kg suitcase haul

Charlotte May Lee has appeared in court after £1.2 million of the synthetic cannabis Kush was allegedly found in her suitcase when she landed in the country.

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1 week ago Brit, 79, faces huge sentence in notorious hellhole jail if meth drug mule guilt proved

The pensioner was held after leaving a flight from the Mexican resort of Cancun at Santiago Airport, where he had hoped to stay overnight and then catch a flight to Australia

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1 week ago Rick Derringer, ubiquitous guitarist in US pop and rock, dies aged 77

Singer and guitarist scored a US No 1 fronting 60s rockers the McCoys, before work with artists as varied as Barbra Streisand, Steely Dan, Alice Cooper and Weird ‘Al’ YankovicRick Derringer, the singer and guitarist who topped the US charts with his band the McCoys and was a sideman for a host of stars including Barbara Streisand, Cyndi Lauper and Steely Dan, has died aged 77.The news was announced in a Facebook post by his close friend Tony Wilson, who did not give a cause of death. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Lindsay Lohan credits her ageless appearance to ‘juice and chia seeds’ amid facelift rumors

Lohan said she’d had no time to have a facelift in the last three years

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1 week ago Brit arrested in Bali on drug charges avoids death penalty and is sentenced to 10 months in jail after 'taking a package of MDMA from a taxi driver'

A British man arrested in Bali for allegedly taking a package containing just over a kilogram of MDMA from a taxi driver has avoided the death penalty.  

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1 week ago British man sentenced to 10 months in Bali for drug offenses after death penalty charge dropped

A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali has sentenced a British man to 10 months in jail for drug offenses after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped

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