67 h. ago Carlo Ancelotti and the vibes of Brazil: a match made in football heaven?

A partnership between the world’s best man-manager and the Seleção will be fun – and potentially gloriousThe year is 2026 and Carlo Ancelotti is recreating a famous Real Madrid photo. Once more he finds himself on an open-top bus celebrating a landmark victory in sunglasses while smoking a cigar, accompanied by a smiling Rodrygo, Vinicius Junior and Éder Militão. David Alaba is missing and there are confusing new additions, such as Casemiro and Raphinha.Pan out and we realise we’re nowhere near the Cibeles Fountain in Madrid but are instead on Avenida Atlântica by Copacabana beach. Yellow and green confetti fills the sky and Neymar is showing off a record-extending sixth World Cup to an adoring crowd. He’s finally won them over for delivering the hexa, something expected of him since he rose to prominence as a spiky-haired Santos prodigy at the turn of the 2010s, and they have fallen in love with the Seleção again. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Dorset holiday home with 'stunning sea view' is ideal place to watch sunrises

Beach lovers looking for a staycation in Dorset have fallen in love a family-friendly apartment that has 'stunning sea views' in town known for its beautiful harbour and golden sands

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4 d. ago The one change that worked: I’ve ditched streaming for CDs – and fallen in love with music all over again

The lure of a limitless digital jukebox was great, but as the algorithm increasingly served up music I didn’t enjoy, I’ve taken back control of my listeningWhen most people were comparing how many times they had listened to Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx and Fontaines DC on Spotify Wrapped last December, I had to make do with Burger King Unwrapped, delivered to me via their app, which told me how many Burger Kings I’d eaten that year (a solitary Whopper meal in July). You see, I’ve stopped streaming music, which, in this modern day and age, seems frankly weird. But hear me out. I’ve gone back to buying CDs, and it’s made me fall in love with music all over again.I listen to music all day, every day. I can’t work without music in the background, or consider doing the washing up without some tunes to groove to. Traditionally, I’d buy albums on CDs or vinyl, and listen to them over and over until I was bored to death with them, by which time I’d hopefully have bought another album. It’s...

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7 d. ago We've fallen out of love with dating apps driven by AI bots and constant 'ghosting'

New research discovered that four of the UK's most popular dating apps lost more than a million users combined, with experts claiming love-seekers are growing fed up with them

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7 d. ago 'My mum met a stranger online – now she's in love and has given him £7,000'

JUST JANE: Today our agony aunt Jane O'Gorman is dealing with a new issue from a concerned Daily Star reader whose mum met a stranger at a bus stop and has now fallen madly in love

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1 week ago Given up on reading? Elif Shafak on why we still need novels

Recent studies suggest we’ve fallen out of love with reading – but the more chaotic our times, the deeper is our need to slow down and read fictionA recent YouGov poll found that 40% of Britons have not read a book in the last year. “The literary era has come to an end,” Philip Roth prophesied in 2000. “The evidence is the culture, the evidence is the society, the evidence is the screen.” Roth believed that the habit of mind that literature required was bound to disappear. People would no longer have the concentration or the isolation needed to read novels.Several studies seem to support Roth’s conclusion. The average time that a person can focus on one thing has dropped in recent decades from approximately 2.5 minutes to about 45 seconds. I witnessed this when I gave two Ted talks almost 10 years apart. In 2010, we were asked to keep our talks to 20 minutes; in 2017, that was reduced to around 13 minutes. When I asked why, the ...

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3 w. ago Music lovers urged to check old CD collection for albums worth up to £8k

With the rise of digital streaming services, CDs and vinyl records were quickly rendered obsolete, but they are now making a comeback as people return to physical media in droves

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3 w. ago Tasha Ghouri takes a subtle swipe at ex Andrew Le Page after he unfollows her on Instagram following split

The Strictly Come Dancing star, 26, and the estate agent, 29, ended their relationship earlier this year, having fallen in love on Love Island in 2022.

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3 w. ago Dizzee Rascal ditches fame and makes huge career change as plasterer

Dizzee Rascal has revealed that he decided to re-train as a plasterer while during lockdown and was not recognised by his fellow students until at the end of the course

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4 w. ago JoJo Siwa's mum says 'she's fallen in love with Chris Hughes' in emotional video

JoJo Siwa's mum Jessalynn has shared a TikTok video describing the US pop star's bond with fellow housemate Chris Hughes as the "closest love story to Titanic yet".

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