53 h. ago American woman who moved to quaint French village details shocking downsides to living in the picturesque town

From unfriendly locals to losing access to apps like DoorDash and Uber, Audrey Jacqulene Bruno soon discovered that calling the countryside of France home had immense downsides.

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3 d. ago Fate of the 51 boys reprieved from Auschwitz's gas chamber by Josef Mengele: Their extraordinary story is told for first time in MICHAEL CALVIN's new book. Now he tells what happened to them

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, entered Block 11 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on a cold, wet afternoon in October 1944.

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3 d. ago Woman who moved to London from New Zealand reveals culture shocks

Woman who moved to London from New Zealand reveals culture shocks  MSN

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3 d. ago Fate of the 51 boys saved from Auschwitz's gas chamber by Josef Mengele: Their extraordinary story is told for first time in MICHAEL CALVIN's new book. Now he tells what happened to them

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, entered Block 11 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on a cold, wet afternoon in October 1944.

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4 d. ago Wonder Man to Take That: the seven best shows to stream this week

Move over, Wonder Woman! The latest MCU spin-off is an intriguing and surprisingly meta affair. Plus: a brilliant documentary about the boyband – and more regency raunch as Bridgerton returns In terms of audience recognition, Wonder Man is no Wonder Woman. But, as this latest addition to the MCU shows, that can afford a certain freedom. This miniseries is a surprisingly meta affair; a superhero fantasy by way of the kind of behind-the-camera machinations familiar to fans of Seth Rogen’s The Studio. It tells the story of a pair of struggling actors, Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and Trevor Slattery (Ben Kingsley), who are hustling hard to be cast in eccentric European director Von Kovak’s movie Wonder Man. But what seems like a simple Hollywood satire soon develops special powers as Simon finds he shares certain attributes with his fictional persona. Intriguing. Disney+, from Wednesday 28 January Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Woman who moved to London from New Zealand says Brits shouldn't complain about housing

Vita Molyneux arrived on British shores in March 2024 and says there's plenty about the UK that makes for a better quality of life than what she experienced in her home country.

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6 d. ago Why are British people so obsessed with bins? | Polly Hudson

Our nation’s fascination with rubbish knows no bounds – as was proved by one recent online debateEven if you’ve never been anywhere near it, the Mumsnet message board is legendary. Since it launched in 2000, it has changed the vernacular – “am I being unreasonable?” is not just a question, it’s a shorthand for the type of person who asks it – and introduced us to the penis beaker (one maverick husband’s postcoital hygiene regime, made infamous). It’s a screenshot of society, a cultural thermometer; if it’s happening on Mumsnet, it’s big news. And one of the most popular recent threads is about bins.The post that kicked it off was written by a woman who lived opposite an empty house where tenants had moved out. The landlord popped round late at night to drag the bins out for collection, and the next morning, at 6.45am, she could hear the lorry approaching. The coast was clear, and she still had a backlog of rubbish from Christmas. Deciding it was a victimless crime, she slipped one o...

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2 w. ago Man who sexually assaulted woman onboard easyJet flight to Edinburgh unmasked

Nicola Cristiano moved seats to be next to the woman, who was travelling alone, to carry out the "despicable" attack on the flight last May.

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2 w. ago Baby found on street in shopping bag to be adopted and see abandoned brothers

Elsa, the third sibling abandoned in east London over an eight-year period, is set to be adopted, as a judge called her story "quite extraordinary".

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2 w. ago Fish has stunning transformation after woman moves it from small shop tank

A woman shared a video of her Betta fish's incredible transformation after being moved from a small shop tank to a proper home aquarium where he had vibrant colours and expanded fins

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2 w. ago The Spin | Revealed after 100 years: how a corrupt official robbed Percy Fender of the England captaincy

Documentary makers seeking funds to finish making film of an extraordinary man and his influence on the gameAfter a mere 100 years the Spin, always first with the news, is finally able to reveal the details of one of the more extraordinary secrets in the history of English cricket. The story comes from the private family archives of the former Surrey captain Percy Fender, which are being compiled into a fascinating new documentary film. It has always been a mystery that Fender, who was described by Wisden as “the shrewdest county captain of his generation” was never picked to lead England. After all these years, it now appears he was blackmailed out of the job by a corrupt cricket official.In a private audio recording made shortly before his death in 1985, Fender explains that in May 1924 he was approached “by a gentleman who was very well known in the cricket world” who, during the course of a conversation over two half-bottles of champagne in Fender’s flat at the Adelphi, offered ...

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2 w. ago Woman moves fish from tiny tank and it has 'beautiful' transformation in new home

A woman shared that when kept in proper conditions, this fish can flourish, and just because it can survive in worse conditions does not mean that the fish is thriving

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3 w. ago The extraordinary story of a woman who moved her home brick by brick

When the council threatened to demolish her historic home in Hertfordshire, May Savidge, dismantled it herself and then rebuilt it 100 miles away in Norfolk.

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3 w. ago 'I survived a plane crash with maggots feasting on my wounds'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Known as 'the girl who fell from the sky', this extraordinary woman has a story like no other, when she survived a plane crash that left her stranded in the Amazon Rainforest

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3 w. ago Googoosh: A Sinful Voice by Googoosh with Tara Dehlavi review – the extraordinary story of an Iranian icon

Her voice soundtracked the 60s and 70s, but the revolution silenced her. The legendary singer finally has her say in this uneven memoirIf you ask any Iranian to name the most important female pop star in our country’s history, they’ll say Googoosh. Nobody else comes close. Over six decades of revolution, suppression and exile, Googoosh has gone from singer to cultural icon, a symbol of a country’s grief for its murdered, imprisoned, and muzzled artists, and a living link between pre-revolutionary Iran and the diaspora.Googoosh was just three years old when she started singing in small halls and cabaret venues where her father worked. By her teens she was a film actor and a fashion icon. In the 60s and 70s, when my mother was a teenager, Googoosh was everywhere: on television, in films, magazines, on the radio. She kept recreating herself – her style, her moves, her hair. (My mother and many of her university classmates copied Googosh’s famous wispy haircut.) For ...

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3 w. ago American woman finds bizarre difference between US and UK bedrooms

An American woman who moved to the UK has shared one of the biggest shocks she had when moving across the Atlantic - and it's all to do with how different our bedrooms are

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last month Swinger who had her first threesome on TV reveals she’s moved on from marriage split and is now dating a woman

A SWINGER who had her first threesome on TV has revealed she's moved on from the breakdown of her marriage and is now in a new relationship - with a woman. Jess and Mike Miller earned eye-watering amounts every month for being one of the country’s top adult content creator couples. They explored their love of swinging...

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