24 h. ago Surprising truth about the claim that eating lots of carrots has astonishing hormone and beauty benefits

I've tried many ridiculous techniques in the pursuit of beauty. Washing my hair with Stella Artois for more defined curls? Tick. Covering myself in turmeric for brighter skin? Tick.

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26 h. ago The TikTok influencers promoting fare dodging on the Tube: Viewers shown 'hacks' to get through barriers without paying after damning report reveals the criminality has become 'normalised'

Young men are filming themselves laughing and joking with each other as they push through the wide-aisle gates at Tube stations in London in videos liked by hundreds of thousands of viewers.

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28 h. ago Murder probe after mum, 61, and son found dead in 'unforgivable' tragedy

A murder investigation is ongoing after the deaths of a woman and a man at a home in Huddersfield on February 3. The man has been named as the woman's son and his death is not being treated as suspicious

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28 h. ago Awkward moment influencer 'blasting loud music' to make TikTok videos outside a restaurant in Monaco is 'asked to leave' by security

Aubrey Bella, a travel blogger, was enjoying a meal in Monte Carlo, Monaco, when a woman set up a tripod right in front of her view of the legendary casino.

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36 h. ago Crackdown on social media influencers promoting finance advice after Love Island stars charged

Social media tips on money are common - but there is a limit to what advice can be handed out without professional licences

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2 d. ago Woman wrongly held for years on US death row dies in Irish house fire

Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs was exonerated of murder after 17 years and later married an Irish manAfter enduring hellish years on America’s death row for a crime she did not commit, Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs found an idyll, and healing, in rural Ireland. But in a final, cruel twist, her sanctuary claimed her life.Jacobs, 78, and her carer, Kevin Kelly, were found dead on Tuesday after a fire at her cottage near the village of Casla, in County Galway. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Inside house of horrors where parents starved boy to death with ominous sign on door

Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah subjected their son Abiyah to a cruel diet that led to his death - the family lived in squalor with images revealing the shocking state of their home

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3 d. ago Are we heading for a recession? Show me your nails | Arwa Mahdawi

Who needs boring old facts and figures? According to a host of entirely authoritative influencers, changing tastes in manicures can tell us all we need to know about the economyIs there going to be a recession this year? Economists have been umm-ing and ahh-ing and crunching the numbers, but the answer could be at the tip of your fingers. According to various expert sources (influencers on TikTok), a wobbly economy means people are ditching elaborate and expensive manicures for more understated styles. Cue numerous headlines about “recession nails”.When I first saw these headlines, I felt pretty smug. An inadvertent trendsetter, I have been rocking recession nails for the past decade now. Except I have been calling them “freelance lesbian nails”. Or, alternatively, “harried parent nails”. Then I read past the headlines and was no longer quite so smug. Turns out that the trend doesn’t mean frantically cutting your nails with a cheap clipper while yelling “BE THERE IN A MINUTE!” to yo...

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3 d. ago Death row survivor wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years dies in horror house fire

A survivor of Florida's death row has tragically died in a house fire - Sonia 'Sunny' Jacobs, who was wrongfully jailed for 17 years, died in a fire in Galway earlier this week

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3 d. ago Stalker shoots dead beauty influencer TikTok star hours after she posted final video cutting her 17th birthday cake

Sana Yousaf, who turned 17 last week and had more than a million followers across her social media accounts, was killed at her home in the capital Islamabad on Monday.

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4 d. ago 16 and Pregnant star says ‘life is so cruel’ after death of 16

Young mother welcomed her son on the MTV reality show and said the devastating death was her ‘worst nightmare’ come true

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4 d. ago New London woman offered 2 to 5 years in 2023 death of son's ex

New London woman offered 2 to 5 years in 2023 death of son's ex-girlfriend, victim's family says  Shelton Herald

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4 d. ago Woman causes outrage over bizarre method for frying an egg which she 'learnt from an Italian grandmother'

We could all use a little less oil for healthier cooking, but a TikTok influencer's unusual alternative is said to have come from an 'Italian grandmother'.

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4 d. ago Grieving father unlocks his son's phone a year after his death to find a video of 'the killer wearing a mocking grin moments after the stabbing'

A grieving father who unlocked his son's phone a year after his murder was left horrified after finding a video showing his alleged killer mocking the crime moments after it happened. 

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4 d. ago Parents CHARGED after son they allowed to walk home alone is hit and killed by a car

North Carolina parents have been arrested after their 7-year-old son was killed by a car when they let him walk home from the grocery store without them.

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4 d. ago Parents thrown in jail for 'causing son's hit and run death' by allowing him to walk home without them

North Carolina parents have been arrested after their 7-year-old son was killed by a car when they let him walk home from the grocery store without them.

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4 d. ago American living in the UK slams the taste of British chicken

A TikTok influencer whose content is focused around her life as an American in the UK has had a rude awakening after accidentally consuming raw chicken.

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4 d. ago Dad unlocks dead son's phone and finds 'mocking video left by killer'

Giamcomo Friso, 34, allegedly knifed his neighbour Michael Boschetto to death in Italy - Michael's father finally managed to unlock his son months later and made a chilling discovery

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5 d. ago ‘Chic’ is dead, says Vogue. Is it time to revive ‘jazzy’, ‘snazzy’ and ‘swish’? | Emma Beddington

The word has lost all meaning, we are told. Could my favourite dad-jectives replace it?Vogue has spoken: chic is dead. Not being it, but the word. Chic has, Lauren O’Neill argues, lost its essence, co-opted to cover whatever glazed-doughnut-skinned influencers on TikTok decide it should, from monogrammed lip balm to iced matchas. “Chic has come to be mistaken for certain monied strains of taste, rather than the sort of unique je ne sais quoi that I think the word at its purest actually means.”Baudelaire – the 19th century’s Nicky Haslam, given how many things he disapproved of: photography, Belgium, Victor Hugo – would have agreed. He called chic an “awful and bizarre word”. Are he and Vogue right? Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Britain's Got Talent's Simon Cowell says son Eric 'saved him' after death of both parents

The TV talent show judge, 65, said he felt 'lost' after his parents died

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