76 m. ago London home sellers are being forced to knock thousands of pounds off their house prices so they can move

After decades of growth, owners are now slashing prices so they can move

Society

76 m. ago From ayahuasca rituals to a birthday in the favelas: Arles photography festival takes us on a trip

This year’s French photo extravaganza showcases stunning images from across Latin America. There’s also selfie addicts, anonymous fetishists and a pharmacist taking pictures of his customers without their consentArtists have always been fascinated with imagining the invisible – but few have taken it quite as far as Musuk Nolte. The 37-year-old Mexican photographer has spent a decade working with the Indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon region – and found inspiration there by taking ayahuasca with a shaman called Julio.Nolte tells me he first took ayahuasca when he was five years old – with his mum, an anthropologist who studied the psychedelic brew. The powerful hallucinogenic visions he experienced while with the Shawi community in their ancestral homeland, the Paranapura basin, have been translated into a series of images titled The Belongings of the Air, presented as small suspended light boxes, glowing like fireflies in a darkened room. They are unconventional documents, no...

Culture

2 h. ago ‘The voices of our dead have not faded away’: the fight for the memory of genocide in Srebrenica

Three decades on, as leaders deny what happened, remains of the thousands killed continue to be identified and buriedThree decades after genocide was committed in the middle of Europe, memories in the rest of world are beginning to fade, helped along by a relentless effort by the perpetrators and their allies to cover up evidence. But the sprawling murder scene in the hills and fields around Srebrenica continues to cough up its bones.In the town of Bratunac, 6 miles (10km) north of Srebrenica town, a group burial was performed recently of victims’ remains that had been identified over the course of the preceding year. Imams gathered from across the country to pray before a line of six coffins draped in the blue and gold Bosnian flag. Continue reading...

Events

5 h. ago 'I visited a magical underwater river and one thing caught me completely off guard'

Rio Secreto in Cancun was discovered almost two decades ago by complete chance. Now the underground oasis has become a major tourist attraction in the Mexican seaside town

Events

5 h. ago Kristi Noem claims 1 in 6 survivors of Lahaina wildfires were forced to trade sexual favors for supplies

Noem says administration is ‘up against decades of gross mismanagement and negligence’ in remaking FEMA

Events

5 h. ago Trump administration reportedly planning to fire 2,145 Nasa employees

Cuts further the push to slash federal government through early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignationsThe Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities.According to documents obtained by Politico, most employees leaving are in senior-level government ranks, depriving the agency of decades of experience as part of a push to slash the size of the federal government through early retirement, buyouts and deferred resignations. Continue reading...

Politics

6 h. ago A decade of missed opportunities: Texas couldn't find $1M for flood warning system near camps

Over the last decade, an array of local and state agencies have missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert the type of disaster that swept away dozens of youth campers and others in Kerr County, Texas

Events

7 h. ago Glasgow gang boss' new face revealed in first snaps in years as crime kingpin parties in Dubai

Dubai-based kingpin Steven Lyons is believed to have spent thousands of pounds on cosmetic surgery to change his appearance, as he was pictured for the first time in a decade

Events

7 h. ago Former West Virginia officers sentenced to decades in prison for their role in deadly inmate assault

Two former West Virginia correctional officers have been sentenced to decades in prison for their roles in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate

Events

8 h. ago Scots Bargain Hunt icon Anita Manning's real age and transformation after making history

Scottish antique expert Anita Manning has been on Bargain Hunt since 2010 but held a career in antiques for decades before that.

Politics

9 h. ago Best and WORST dressed at Sun Valley retreat as Ivanka Trump and Gayle King appear at 'billionaire summer camp'

In honor of one of the biggest weeks in the business world, FEMAIL has rounded up some of the best and worst dressed moguls from the week.

Politics

10 h. ago U.S. measles cases surpass 2019 count, while Missouri is latest state with an outbreak

This year is the worst for measles spread in the U.S. since 1991

Politics

11 h. ago Christian Horner's last interview as F1 boss spoke volumes about Red Bull sacking

The husband of former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell cut a subdued figure after the British Grand Prix and has now left his team after two decades of involvement and six constructors titles

Politics

12 h. ago Greater Manchester 'set for best decade since Victorian period', Andy Burnham claims

The mayor was speaking at the launch of the new Greater Manchester Strategy, outlining his key priorities until 2035

Events

12 h. ago Lawyer who defended depraved surgeon dubbed France's worst paedophile 'kills himself' weeks after his 'devil in a white coat' client was jailed for raping 298 patients

Maxime Tessier, 34, represented the disgraced Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, who confessed at his trial to sexually assaulting or raping 298 patients between 1989 and 2014, many of them children.

Events

13 h. ago Robot surgery on humans could be trialled within decade after success on pig organs

AI-trained robot carries out procedures on dead pig organs to remove gall bladders without any human helpAutomated surgery could be trialled on humans within a decade, say researchers, after an AI-trained robot armed with tools to cut, clip and grab soft tissue successfully removed gall bladders without human help.The robot surgeons were schooled on video footage of human medics conducting operations using organs taken from dead pigs. In an apparent research breakthrough, eight operations were conducted on pig organs with a 100% success rate by a team led by experts at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the US. Continue reading...

Politics

13 h. ago Christian Horner in tearful goodbye message to Red Bull F1 staff after 20 years

Christian Horner drove to Red Bull's headquarters in Milton Keynes on Wednesday shortly after it emerged that he'd been sacked as both CEO and team principal after two decades at the helm

Politics

14 h. ago Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced | Arwa Mahdawi

The systematic destruction of Gaza is hardly a secret. Now, the IDF is posting Facebook ads for bulldozer operators to help demolish the stripOmer Bartov is an Israeli-American historian and one of the foremost scholars on genocide in the world. He has spent over 25 years teaching a class on the subject. He deals with atrocities for a living, analyzing some of the very worst things that human beings are capable of. And yet even Bartov has said he can’t bear looking at some of the excruciating images coming out of Gaza any more.What’s happening, Bartov says, is unprecedented in the 21st century. “I don’t know of any comparable situation. Recent estimates show that about 70% of the structures in Gaza are either completely destroyed or severely damaged,” Bartov says. “The argument that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is conducting a war in Gaza is simply cynical, there is no war in Gaza. What the IDF is doing in Gaza is demolishing it. Hundreds of buildings are being bulldozed every we...

Politics

14 h. ago 'Worst boyfriend' keeps working out even though his girlfriend collapsed at gym

The duo had been taking part in a high-intensity challenge when the girl passed out due to exhaustion, but despite calls to stop and help his partner, the man carried on

Politics

15 h. ago The US is having its worst year for measles in more than three decades

Measles cases in the U.S. are at their highest in three decades

Politics