4 h. ago How the British girl caught with record cannabis haul in Sri Lanka is telling police it's all the fault of a mystery man called Dan she met on a beach

Sri Lankan Airlines Flight UL 405 had barely left the runway before the 21-year-old part-time beautician from Surrey slapped on a hydrating in-flight facial mask and stuck in her earphones.

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16 h. ago Center Parcs' eerily abandoned lodges left to rot with furniture still inside

An eerie video shared on social media shows the state of disrepair some of abandoned accommodation at a Center Parcs in the Netherlands with moss growing over furniture

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30 h. ago The children of Gaza are starving to death | First Dog on the Moon

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48 h. ago Sirens review – Julianne Moore’s utterly addictive cult drama is preposterously fun

This endlessly entertaining study in class and family is a witty, star-packed treat that zips through five tight episodes. Here’s hoping for a second seasonAre you ready for some fun? Don’t you deserve it? I think we all do – life’s awful – so I gladly present to you Sirens, which is The White Lotus meets all the good series that Nicole Kidman has been in, with just a dash of Ryan Murphy-esque camp to make it all go with an especially zingy swing! Welcome!It is a tale of two sisters and a superrich villain whose cult-like lifestyle threatens to come between them. Older sister Devon (Meghann Fahy – yes, of White Lotus fame, taking a much meatier part this time and running with it) is a semi-functioning alcoholic who is caring for their increasingly difficult father while working a minimum wage job at the local falafel joint and banging her married boss on the side. When she sends little sister Simone (House of the Dragon’s Milly Alcock and astonishing child actor in Tim Minchin’s hea...

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4 d. ago Dortmund banish some of their 2023 ghosts while Leipzig and Freiburg create their own | Andy Brassell

Niko Kovac oversaw a remarkable comeback but there is plenty of work to be done for BVB to challenge Bayern againThe last time Borussia Dortmund had enjoyed an end-of-season run-in as successful as this was that season. Nearly two years on Niko Kovac and company didn’t quite lay the ghost of 2023 but began to definitively draw a line under the fallout from it. On this occasion BVB faced what should have been a straightforward final day task at home and made it so. Where they had been cowed by nerves against Mainz in the last game of 2022-23 and let the Bundesliga slip through their collective fingers, this time they were ready to receive an unexpected opportunity.This time there was the right to a celebration, and there was the feeling that it had been earned. Pointing out that Saturday’s final-day win over already-relegated Holstein Kiel perhaps salvaged the bare minimum – a top-four place – from this season would be to miss the point and to disregard the context. BVB had been lang...

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4 d. ago ‘I will never stop’: Tom Cruise wants to make movies into his 100s. Why not his 1000s? | Stuart Heritage

Cinema’s sprightliest senior citizen is not one to give in to obstacles easily and looks set to outpace time’s wingèd chariot for a good while yetMuch of the discourse around Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning revolves around that penultimate word. This, we’re told, is it. This is the last time that Tom Cruise will leap out of various modes of high-speed transport in pursuit of some nebulously defined MacGuffin. The last time he’ll grit his teeth and run across a major global landmark. The last time he’ll give Simon Pegg work. This is it.Except, not to spoil anything, but it probably isn’t. After years of avoiding the press and letting his work do the talking, Tom Cruise is actively promoting Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. He’s doing junkets. He’s giving red-carpet interviews. He’s giving talks at the BFI. For those of us who enjoy Tom Cruise, this is a rare gift. But over the course of these appearances, a message has started to form. That message is: Tom Cruise ...

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5 d. ago The French bureaucrats who may have doomed abandoned aquarium orcas to die... and why red tape leaves them trapped in a hellish existence

France's last two captive killer whales are stranded in the algae-infested Marineland, near Cannes, neglected with the exception of a skeleton staff that comes in intermittently to feed them.

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6 d. ago Bulldozers tear down venue with 'more lives than any other building in town'

Time has finally run out for Oldham's 120-year-old Grand Theatre building which has been a cinema, bowling alley, snooker hall, roller derby venue and several nightclubs

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7 d. ago Abandoned theme park with crumbling arcade and creepy dummies 'left to rot'

An urban explorer Lukka Bradburn visited the remains of two abandoned theme parks in Japan after visiting nearby ghost towns deserted in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

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7 d. ago Coatbridge man running Edinburgh Marathon for second time in aid of charity SCIAF

Lee Dornan, 36, is an accountant for the humanitarian organisation and has visited Zambia and South Sudan during his work.

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7 d. ago Creepy theme park abandoned after nuclear disaster looks like Wild West 'left to rot'

An intrepid traveller managed to locate an abandoned theme park in Japan – but appeared to take a huge step back in time and stumbled upon the US Wild West remade

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8 d. ago Katie Price shares one huge regret about being Eurovision hopeful for UK

Katie Price has reflected on having competed in Making Your Mind Up to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, with her runner-up to Javine Hylton at the time

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8 d. ago Time running out for abandoned orcas left to rot in 'zombie' marine park

The two killer whales, Wikie and her son Keijo, have been left abandoned in a rotting marine zoo after it closed permanently in January and now face an uncertain future

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8 d. ago Inside abandoned wildlife park where eerie 'ghost shark' left to rot

The great white shark was caught in fishing nets in Australia before she was transferred to a wildlife park where she was put on display. After the park was closed, she was abandoned

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8 d. ago Abandoned Disney World theme parks left to rot and eerily quiet

Walt Disney World in Florida is known for being a magical place, but there are some parts of the resort that have been left abandoned and are now slowly decaying

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8 d. ago Orcas left trapped in abandoned French marine park four months after closure

Disturbing footage shows orcas Wikie, 23, and her 11-year-old son Keijo swimming aimlessly in the deserted Marineland Antibes near Cannes

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9 d. ago FA Cup final could be last chance saloon for four Man City players under threat

Manchester City must begin planning for their 2025/26 squad with time running out for certain players to have a say in their futures.

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9 d. ago Misery of the abandoned orcas: Killer whales and dolphins are left trapped in shut

The majestic creatures remain confined in Marineland Antibes, a French marine park near Cannes that shut its doors four months ago.

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9 d. ago Orca family left 'swimming aimless' at abandoned theme park four months after it shut down

Wikie, 23, and son Keijo, 11, have spent their whole lives in captivity and now have been left in a crumbling tank after their theme park home in France shut in January

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9 d. ago Abandoned theme park left 'frozen in time' where Orca whales still alive left to rot

WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: Wikie, 23, and her 11-year-old son Keijo are the last two killer whales in France and due to the closure of the Marineland Antibes they have been left to rot in their tank

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