30 m. ago Swarovski fans pick up huge saving on 'beautiful' bracelet ahead of Christmas

The Swarovski Hyperbola Bracelet Collection has just over 110,000 reviews on Amazon

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44 m. ago ‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypesEleanor, 24, is a Polish historian and lecturer at a university in Warsaw; Isabelle, 25, is a detective serving with the NYPD; Brooke, 39, is an American housewife who enjoys an opulent Miami lifestyle financed by her frequently absent husband.All three women will flirt and chat and send nude photographs and explicit videos via one of a soaring number of new adult dating websites that offer an increasingly realistic selection of AI girlfriends for subscribers willing to pay a monthly fee. Continue reading...

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46 m. ago I'm a longevity expert and you really CAN reduce your biological age. It may sound outlandish but here are 11 ways to do it...

When world leaders Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were recently overheard discussing the possibility of surviving to 150, it prompted a global scientific debate.

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46 m. ago China 'threatened to retaliate' if Labour classed it as an 'enhanced' risk as ministers face fresh questions over collapse of 'spying' case

The measures introduced this summer mean that 'agents' of other powers face criminal prosecution if they fail to disclose activities.

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53 m. ago Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling downPhotographs by Roberto García-RoaThe world is becoming less colourful. For butterflies, bold and bright wings once meant survival, helping them attract mates and hide from prey. But a new research project suggests that as humans replace rich tropical forests with monochrome, the colour of other creatures is leaching away.“The colours on a butterfly’s wings are not trivial – they have been designed over millions of years,” says researcher and photographer Roberto García-Roa, who is part of a project in Brazil documenting how habitat loss is bleaching the natural world of colour.Amiga arnaca found in a eucalyptus plantation, where scientists observed butterflies were less colourful than in native forests Continue reading...

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54 m. ago UK’s ‘best pumpkin patch’ for families also happens to be in a seriously beautiful setting

Doddington Hall and Gardens, near Lincoln, was named the best for the third year running in research carried out by Outdoor Toys - a children's toys and play equipment company

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57 m. ago Winter heating payment deadline this week for people over State Pension age

Pension Age Winter Heating Payment has replaced Winter Fuel Payments for older people in Scotland.

Economics

72 m. ago Dad discovers teacher's 'sexual relationship' with son, 15, during awkward dinner

English teacher Ella Clements has been charged with three counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child aged 14 to 16 and one count of intentionally sexually touching a child aged 14 to 16

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75 m. ago Kimberly Hébert Gregory: Walton Goggins and Busy Philipps lead tributes to actor after death aged 52

Actor has been remembered for ‘lighting up every room’

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76 m. ago Doorbell footage shows fire erupt at UK mosque in suspected arson attack

Doorbell footage has captured the moment a fire erupts at a UK mosque in suspected arson attack.

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79 m. ago The Traitors winner signs up for first acting role in Netflix's upcoming supernatural thriller

The Body is a coming-of-age drama that follows a dance troupe in a Catholic school who trigger mass hysteria in their town when they begin to experience prophetic visions

Politics

86 m. ago Two people charged after cars driven into border patrol agents’ vehicle in Chicago

One of the suspects was shot during the incident, one of several clashes between immigration agents and protesters in the Windy City over the weekend

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91 m. ago Frankie Bridge admits she’s blown ALL the cash she earned from The Saturdays saying ‘it would be nice to have some left’

FORMER pop star and TV regular Frankie Bridge has opened up about frittering away her fortune from The Saturdays. Singer Frankie shot to fame in S Club Juniors aged 12 and went onto have great success in the popular girlband - but hasn't saved a penny from any of it. Talking to Spencer Matthews on...

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1 hour ago BBC Strictly Come Dancing star dies as Shirley Ballas pays tribute to 'caring soul'

Tributes have been pouring in for former Strictly Come Dancing South Africa judge Michael Wentink following his heartbreaking death aged 46

Events

1 hour ago 'Council sent me £600 fine after piece of card flew out of my bin'

Freelance photographer Francesca Poncetta, 32, thought it was a joke

Economics

1 hour ago Finn Wolfhard’s honest playlist: ‘I don’t know if I want to hear Sweet Child O’ Mine any more’

The musician and actor gives Bowie some welly at karaoke and is a lapsed G’n’R superfan. But which UK stadium indie-popsters created the first album he ever bought?The first song I fell in love withI was in my living room one fall afternoon, sick from school, aged six, and my mom was like: ‘You’ve never heard the Beatles before?’ She put on Help! the movie, then for the rest of the day, I played Help! over and over again on her iPod.The song I do at karaoke Anything David Bowie is really fun, like Fame or Queen Bitch. No one is ever going to sound like Bowie, but I just love the energy and mood. Recently I did Save Me by Aimee Mann, which I think made everyone really bored, but I had the greatest time. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing star dies aged 46 as Shirley Ballas pays tribute to 'dear friend'

A number of Strictly Come Dancing stars including judge Shirley Ballas have paid tribute to 'dear friend' Michael Wentink who has sadly passed away at the age of 46

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2 h. ago Older people with ongoing health issues could be due up to £1,362 every month

Attendance Allowance and Pension Age Disability Payment are providing extra financial support for over 1.7 million pensioners across the UK.

Economics

2 h. ago Kimberly Hébert Gregory's hidden role in The Big Bang Theory after tragic death

Kimberly Hébert Gregory, who starred in Two and a Half Men and the Big Bang Theory, has died aged 52, her ex-husband confirmed

Events

2 h. ago The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes review – wild times with young Tennyson

A masterful account of the poet’s early life during the tumultuous 19th century crisis of faithAlfred Tennyson was a divided soul. He even wrote a poem called The Two Voices in which dual versions of himself argued out the pros and cons of suicide. In this illuminating book, Richard Holmes has chosen to focus on the lesser known of the poet’s personae.The year 1850 was pivotal for Tennyson. He published the great poem sequence In Memoriam, over which he had laboured for nearly two decades. He became, as a result, both famous and rich. He got married, after a 14‑year courtship. He had been living in rented homes with his mother and siblings, or dossing down with bachelor friends in London, or lurking alone in a ramshackle cottage on one of his native Lincolnshire’s bleak beaches. Now he took a house where he could receive distinguished visitors. (When Prince Albert came calling, Tennyson was so far from obsequious that he forgot to invite the queen’s consort to sit down, though he di...

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