2 h. ago ‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor

Government poised to officially protect 200,000 hectares of remote Patagonian coastline and forest Chile’s government is poised to create the country’s 47th national park, protecting nearly 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of pristine wilderness and completing a wildlife corridor stretching 1,700 miles (2,800km) to the southernmost tip of the Americas.The Cape Froward national park is a wild expanse of wind-torn coastline and forested valleys that harbours unrivalled biodiversity and has played host to millennia of human history. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago 'I fled my abuser at Christmas with my brave little girl and one precious toy'

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. For years, Ivana Ivancakova suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her ex partner. Then, one winter's day, battered and covered in bruises, she grabbed her daughter and ran

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2 h. ago Christmas tragedy as girl, 2, drowns inside bucket of water at home

Two-year-old Isabelle Louise de Sousa Silva was drowned inside a bucket in her own home on Christmas Eve - and was discovered by her horrified mother in the family bathroom

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3 h. ago Coronation Street reveal the identity of their Christmas Day attack victim following surprise cliffhanger

Coronation Street fans are in for a Christmas Day shocker after this year's festive special ended with a shocking cliffhanger.

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3 h. ago ‘We were treated like enemies of society’: Japan’s dangerous hardcore punk scene looks back to its roots

The pressure to conform in Japanese society made being a punk risky – even before you factor in the flamethrowers. As a new rash of reissues arrives, 80s stalwarts Lip Cream, Death Side and the Nurse recall the thrills and threatsA few short years after punk’s initial shock-and-awe inspired thousands of teenagers to spike their hair and learn three chords, the genre mutated into hardcore: a leaner, meaner and fiercely independent hybrid that would soon be tearing up squats, church halls and dive bars around the world.Forty-five years on, hardcore is enjoying a moment in the mainstream thanks to bands such as Turnstile, Speed and Knocked Loose. There are hardcore bands on talkshows, in fast-food ads and on $40 T-shirts – all things that the 1980s artists would probably have gobbed at. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Grand Designs ‘nuclear bunker’ home that cost £7m to build leaves viewers horrified

Grand Designs viewers were left horrified after a couple spent £7million building a modern castle, only for many to say it looked like a car park, prison or nuclear bunker

Economics

4 h. ago BBC The Scarecrows' Wedding cast: Who voices the special animation?

The Scarecrows' Wedding is a BBC adaptation of a picture book by Julia Donaldson, and it's set to air on Christmas Day

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4 h. ago Supermodel swaps runway for sport in shock change of career no one saw coming

A stunning reality TV star and supermodel swapped the runway for an unexpected sport over the Christmas period - shocking fans on social media

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4 h. ago The horrifying human zoos: Shocking images show how 'primitive' tribesmen were caged alongside animals to be gawped at by Westerners

Caged in enclosures in Madrid's Retiro Park, they were described as 'strange', 'disfigured', 'brutal' and 'subhuman'. 

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4 h. ago The Scarecrows' Wedding cast: Who voices the sweet BBC animation?

The enchanting story will be broadcast on Christmas Day to entertain families

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4 h. ago I lost 14st in two years but now I miss being fat – I’m sick of the way people stare and everyone asks the same thing

LOSING 14st in two years is easily one of Savannah Silbernagel’s biggest achievements, but now she admits she wishes she’d never bothered. Savannah, 27, from Georgia, USA, stunned her social media followers with her staggering weight loss. But she has now shocked fans by admitting there are things she actually misses about being bigger. She...

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4 h. ago Shocking moment Kick streamer Clavicular appears to run over person during live Cybertruck broadcast

Braden 'Clavicular' claimed he acted in self-defence

Sport

5 h. ago I was shocked at David Beckham’s response after I sent congratulations for being knighted

David Beckham's response left Sky Sports presenter Alex Aljoe in some doubt

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6 h. ago Emmerdale airs shock Christmas Day return of 'missing' star after lengthy absence

Christmas Day was far from happy and bright in Emmerdale as villain John Sugden make a shocking return to the village in a desperate bid to win back Aaron Dingle

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6 h. ago Coronation Street star left for dead on Christmas Day with attacker on the loose

It was another eventful Christmas in Weatherfield as one family was torn apart by a shocking bombshell and another resident left for dead after a sinister attack

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6 h. ago Wild animals are great gift givers – and there’s one present in particular I’d love to receive for Christmas | Helen Pilcher

Penguins hand over pebbles; scorpionflies give spitballs. But I’m hankering after a sea sponge presented by a dolphinThis Christmas morning, are you worried you didn’t choose quite the right gift for that someone special? I always try my hardest, but everywhere I turn I’m bombarded with unhelpful suggestions. No, I don’t want a candle that smells like turkey, because, well, we’ll be cooking turkey. Nor do I want a sunrise alarm clock that mimics natural light, because I can leave the curtains open. And I definitely don’t want a salmon DNA pink collagen jelly mask (Good Housekeeping’s Best for Beauty Lovers), because said DNA comes from milt. AKA semen. If I wanted fish sperm on my face, I would tickle some pollocks.So if, like me, you’re always looking for inspiration, my advice is: learn from the animal kingdom. Humans didn’t invent gifting. The practice has been around for at least 100m years, long before our species evolved. With a little help from natural selection, this has giv...

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6 h. ago Gruesome death sentence locked in metal bull and burned to death in public

The brazen bull was a life-sized bronze cast of the animal that was left completely hollow inside

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6 h. ago Horror in world's hottest city as fish boil in sea and birds fall from sky

Kuwait City, once a blissful 'Marseilles of the Gulf', is now witnessing heat so extreme that animals are being cooked alive in scorching temperatures

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6 h. ago Agonising death of victims locked in metal bull with fire set underneath it

The brazen bull was a gruesome execution method in Ancient Greece designed not only to kill but to terrify, turning human suffering into a grotesque spectacle

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7 h. ago Woman buys family DNA kits for Christmas and is left horrified by mum's reaction

A woman has been left horrified after buying her family AncestryDNA kits for their Christmas gifts only for her mum to have a rather strong reaction to the presents

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