39 m. ago ‘Now I steal people’s attention’: how a Brazilian newspaper has turned a city’s rough sleepers into journalists

Porto Alegre’s Boca de Rua is sold and written by some of the city’s most vulnerable people, giving them a voice and a sense of purposeEvery Tuesday afternoon, Michel Vasconcelos goes to an open-air market in Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil, his backpack full of newspapers to sell, to which he contributes words and illustrations. “I used to steal and deal drugs,” says Vasconcelos, 43, who ended up living on the streets due to a family fall out.It was there that he got involved, nearly 10 years ago, with the project Boca de Rua (Word on the Street) and became, in his own words, a paperboy and journalist. “Now, I steal people’s attention and deal in information,” he says, flashing a smile. Continue reading...

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39 m. ago The one change that worked: I started sketching – and stopped doomscrolling

Drawing pictures of my family, pets and strangers has made me a calmer, happier person – and given me a tender record of my lifeI’ve always battled with phone use. I resent how much my sense of being alive in the world – feeling it, doing things, making stuff happen – is affected by my screen time. So a few years ago, I decided to do a sketch every day.I had always wanted to draw, but I was embarrassed about starting out because I was so bad at it. Then I bought a few black notebooks: a small one for my jacket pocket, and larger ones for my bedside and for the kitchen table. As no one would ever see my drawings, I decided I didn’t need to care about what anyone thought. Continue reading...

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51 m. ago Netflix users left confused as Black Mirror episode is removed for good

Users have hit out at the news, with one proclaiming ‘this sucks’

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80 m. ago Malpractice series 2 ending explained: what happened to Dr Ford and will there be a series 3? Explained

Spoilers for Malpractice series 2 as episode 5 set to air on ITV 🩺

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2 h. ago What time is Malpractice on TV? Series 2 finale start time and episode length

The timings for the series 2 finale of Malpractice have been confirmed 🩺

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2 h. ago A timeline of the rise and fall of French movie star Gérard Depardieu

For over half a century, Gérard Depardieu stood as a towering figure in French cinema, a titan known for his commanding physical presence, instinct, sensibility and remarkable versatility.

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4 h. ago The latest Last of Us episode will take years to really make sense

With just two more episodes remaining of season two, the hit drama’s puzzle-box structure has become apparent. It’s clear the series is playing the long game, writes Louis Chilton – but what does that mean for us now?

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5 h. ago ‘A whirling mass of limbs and lingerie’: the salacious, riotous story of the high

It started out as a dance for men who risked arrest for indecency – and grew into a legs-flying, bloomers-revealing sensation. We go behind the scenes at Bottoms, a thrilling new show about the cancan‘Our chorus line was never going to look like the Moulin Rouge’s,” says Katherina Radeva. And everyone knows what that one looks like, don’t they? The high-kicking cancan chorus line with long legs flying up in a blur as women show off their bloomers to the sound of Offenbach’s irresistibly infectious music – a riot of frills, thrills, whoops and garters. Well, that’s certainly one version. But Radeva is talking about Bottoms, a show she has put together with co-director Alister Lownie and their company Two Destination Language. Bottoms takes the cancan as its muse, its creators having discovered that the real story of the dance phenomenon is much more interesting than the tourist-friendly cliche.It turns out that the identikit all-female spectacle that we know so well is the opposite o...

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10 h. ago BBC Countryfile's Adam Henson says 'oh no' as farm blunder causes chaos on show

BBC Countryfile presenter Adam Henson had a bee blunder hit his farm on Sunday's episode

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10 h. ago Spouses and mothers ‘safest pairs of hands to protect finances’

Only one in 11 people speak to those they trust to sense-check requests, according to Take Five to Stop Fraud.

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17 h. ago Christine McGuinness speaks out about Celebs Go Dating exit as she teases new project

Christine McGuiness opened up on life following her sensational decision to quit Celebs Go Dating as she felt it was too soon for her after divorce from Paddy McGuiness

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18 h. ago Thank you for letting us make you rich: claims of ‘bizarre’ culture in Gina Rinehart’s company

Former staff lift the veil on life at Hancock Prospecting, where they say the boss is lavishly praised and adulation is encouragedAustralia news live: latest politics updatesListen to the latest episode of Guardian Australia’s podcast series GinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastInsiders at Australia’s biggest private company – Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting – have lifted the veil on what they describe as a “bizarre” culture within the organisation that includes annual requests to thank Australia’s richest person.While not compulsory, the thank you messages are encouraged by senior executives and are requested across the company, including from workers at its mine sites. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago BBC show This City Is Ours renewed for a second series with major character set to return

The BBC has reordered hit drama This City is Ours for a second series and a major character is set to return for a flashback episode despite being killed off mid-way early on in season one

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21 h. ago The Sopranos fans are going crazy over the 'strangest edit in the entire show' from revered series

It's a single, jarringly edited scene from Season 5, Episode 10, titled Cold Cuts, that's being widely dubbed online as 'the strangest edit in the entire show.'

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21 h. ago Nineties TV episode 'banned from screens for three years' for harrowing child murder scene is now available on Disney+ in major U

An instalment (pictured) of the sci-fi series was removed from reruns of the show on its original channel, after just one repeat broadcast three years after its release.

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22 h. ago Want to know how the world really ends? Look to TV show Families Like Ours | John Harris

The Danish drama is piercing in its ordinariness. In the real world, the climate crisis worsens and authoritarians take charge as we calmly look awayThe climate crisis has taken a new and frightening turn, and in the expectation of disastrous flooding, the entire landmass of Denmark is about to be evacuated. Effectively, the country will be shutting itself down and sending its 6 million people abroad, where they will have to cope as best they can. Huge numbers of northern Europeans are therefore being turned into refugees: a few might have the wealth and connections to ease their passage from one life to another, but most are about to face the kind of precarious, nightmarish future they always thought of as other people’s burden. Don’t panic: this is not a news story – or not yet, anyway. It’s the premise of an addictive new drama series titled Families Like Ours, acquired by the BBC and available on iPlayer. I have seen two episodes so far, and been struck by the very incisive way ...

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22 h. ago Jurgen Klopp finally shedding light on why he quit Liverpool made so much sense

Jurgen Klopp unexpectedly decided to step down as Liverpool boss at the end of the 2023/24 season but the German manager's reasons for doing so have since been justified

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25 h. ago Vinnie Jones confronted by 'football's hardest man' who delivered seven

Carlton Palmer also opened up on his own run-in with Billy Whitehurst during a West Brom clash with Sunderland, where he was told he had "more balls than sense"

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25 h. ago 'I starred in last episode of Gavin & Stacey – and learnt one thing about cast'

An actor who starred in the last ever episode of Gavin & Stacey has revealed what the cast was really like to work with. Scott McGlynn, 37, was an extra in the unforgettable episode

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28 h. ago Rangers must do right by Graeme Souness over revulsive identity theft triggered by tifo embarrassment – Hugh Keevins

I can only imagine the sense of revulsion that must have washed over Graeme Souness when he realised his image had been stolen for use in an offensive banner

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