44 h. ago Teenage clicks: how child photographer Stephen Shore turned everyday New York moments into magic

Before he found fame at 17 photographing Andy Warhol’s Factory, Shore roamed the city with his camera. He talks about the joy of those early 60s pictures – and why they never made him richBlack-and-white street shots of elegant, unimpressed elderly women. Classic cars in shadows cast by New York’s soaring tenement buildings. Street-corner preachers. Imposing wiseguys too busy posturing to notice the camera. Stephen Shore’s new book, Early Work, is full of such everyday New York moments turned into magic. Though he later won acclaim for the photographs he took at Andy Warhol’s studio/hangout the Factory, the previously unseen Early Work may be some of Shore’s most uninhibited and daring pictures – and they were taken in the early 60s, when he was a teenager.Perhaps it’s understandable, then, that the photographer, now 77, can’t really remember taking them – though he does recall that he printed them himself, in a DIY darkroom set up in the bathroom of his parents’ home on Manhattan’s...

Culture

8 d. ago Two elderly women rescued from remote cabin hot tub after girls trip goes dangerously wrong

Both women survived and were released from a local hospital in good condition

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8 d. ago Two women in their 80s get STUCK in hot tub which starts cooking them alive

A group of pensioners in their 80s were left frantically calling emergency services after two members of the group couldn't get out of a scorching hot tub during their cabin stay in Kentucky, US

Society

9 d. ago Horror after female friends in their 80s enjoying girls' trip got STUCK in hot tub that started cooking them alive

Several women over the age of 80 took a trip to the remote wilderness of Wolfe County's Campton when they decided to take a dip in the hot tub.

Society

2 w. ago Rescuers search for missing flash flood victims in remote Kashmir village

Authorities are searching for missing people in a remote village in India-controlled Kashmir after flash floods caused by torrential rains

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3 w. ago ‘Zombie grannies’ acting as ‘human bombers’ for Ukraine says Putin's secret service

Russia's FSB counterintelligence service has accused a group of elderly women of being 'human bombs', after the pensioners were allegedly lured by Ukraine's secret services

Politics

3 w. ago My beautiful French detour: the belle epoque charm of the Pays de la Loire coastline

This tucked-away corner of north-west France is home to beautiful beaches, salt marshes and ciderThe saying goes “curiosity killed the cat”, as if being nosy is a bad thing. As I stood knee-deep in the cool Atlantic Ocean, marvelling at the beauty and emptiness of the Plage de Port Lin, I decided this was nonsense: without this little detour, “just to have a look”, I’d never have discovered Le Croisic, on the Guérande peninsula. The downside is that time isn’t on my side: it’s past 5pm and I’m supposed to be at the big resort, La Baule-Escoublac, six miles east by now. But the presqu’île (a “nearly island”), as the French call it, tucked in the corner where Brittany meets Pays de la Loire, is calling out to be explored.First, though, a late afternoon dip in the sea is too hard to resist, and I wade into the water, sharing a delighted smile with fellow swimmers. Two elderly women in flowery swimming caps nod a cheery “Bonsoir” as I take my first strokes. Afterward...

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3 w. ago Man arrested after 'entering elderly women's homes and touching himself'

"People deserve to be safe in their own homes"

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3 w. ago Ruth Langsford opens up about the 'relentless responsibility' of being a carer

The Loose Women star cares for her elderly mother Joan, who has Alzheimer’s and admits ‘at times it can be overwhelming’

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3 w. ago Babushka beatdown! Moment grandmothers have an all out brawl over who gets to buy last pack of cigarettes

This is the shocking moment two elderly women were spotted brawling in a shop over the last pack of cigarettes.

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