74 m. ago Bryan Kohberger's graphic internet searches revealed in never

The Daily Mail can reveal for the first time the exact porn searches made by Bryan Kohberger around the time of the murders - which may shed some light on his mindset and motivations.

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92 m. ago Remember when having women in power was supposed to change everything? | Gaby Hinsliff

The careers of Sturgeon, Merkel and Ardern show how foolish it is to idealise leaders just for being womenNicola Sturgeon was always afraid of failure. But it was a very particular kind of failure she feared; one that follows a very particular kind of success. Living up to the fact of being Scotland’s first female first minister became, she writes in her new memoir, “almost an obsession”, which is arguably unhealthy but not unreasonable. To be the first woman (or indeed the first minority) in any field is to be uncomfortably aware of being on probation: the test case that sceptics will use to decide whether women in general can really hack it, but also the yardstick by which other women will judge whether representation actually makes a difference.You daren’t betray anything that looks like a sign of weakness, yet at the same time you’re endlessly under pressure to spill your guts on all the intimate stuff – miscarriage and menopause in Sturgeon’s case, pregnancy in high office for ...

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92 m. ago In the Green Heart by Richard Lloyd Parry review – neocolonial jungle fever

An intensely political story of a new father’s escape with his baby through a rainforest during wartimeRichard Lloyd Parry, a longtime foreign correspondent whose experiences of war and regime change are recorded in his remarkable 2005 memoir In the Time of Madness, can be said to know whereof he speaks. Many of that book’s issues, including the psychic damage he incurred from events he witnessed in Indonesia, East Timor and Afghanistan in the 1990s and early 2000s, are reinflected in this, his first novel.Kit and Lara live in a remote village in the deep rainforest. She works for a small, undependably financed NGO. He’s a stay-at-home husband, living for their baby daughter Helen. While Lara presents as impulsive yet practical and barely able to contain her own energy, Kit is dreamy, internalised, exhibiting a calmness that falls easily into dissociation. “This is your life,” she shouts at him shortly before they leave the UK, “a day of your life, and it requires your presence.” He...

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92 m. ago Princess Anne's strict birthday rule revealed that Royal Family must follow

As the Princess Royal celebrates her 75th birthday, she has enforced one rule that will stop the royal family from engaging in too much fanfare for the special day

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92 m. ago 'Disney ghost village' stands frozen in time with hundreds of 'mini castle' homes

Burj Al Babas was once meant to be a Disney-like haven that would be built with hundreds of mini castles. It offered the glam lifestyle of Europe's royal for those tired of Monaco and France

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92 m. ago UK's best value seaside spot is in Wales with day out costing less than £17

The most expensive destination would cost £100 for just two days

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93 m. ago King says sacrifices of VJ Day heroes ‘shall never be forgotten’ as nation marks 80th anniversary

VJ Day on August 15 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender to the Allies following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945

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1 hour ago Airline says all flights will be 'paused' with delays for a week

The shut-down will hit 130,000 passengers a day

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2 h. ago Love Island's Dejon hits back at 'unfair' backlash after release of 'tell

Love Island star Dejon Noel-Williams has hit out at 'untruths' as he continues to be the subject of criticism following his time in the Spanish villa with Megan Moore

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2 h. ago ‘I charge upwards of £100k’: What it’s really like to be a millionaire matchmaker

Celine Song’s new romcom ‘Materialists’ follows Dakota Johnson as a high-flying matchmaker. Lydia Spencer-Elliott chats to real-life professional cupid Inga Verbeeck about how she finds love for the rich and famous

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2 h. ago Manchester to fall silent at 12pm today to mark VJ Day 80 years on

'Their legacy must never be forgotten'

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2 h. ago VJ Day 80: 'I was only 20 and was dodging bullets all the time. I lost a few mates'

'Cease fire, the war is over'

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2 h. ago DC homeless camps cleared out in Trump takeover as Bondi replaces police commissioner with DEA chief

‘I’d like to invite the president to spend some time here in a tent with us,’ one homeless person in DC said

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3 h. ago VJ Day LIVE: King Charles to address nation on 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan

VJ Day is expected to see King Charles reflect on the horrors experienced by prisoners of war and innocent civilians of occupied lands in the Pacific and Far East

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3 h. ago Sky Sports launches 66p a day Premier League coverage as first game starts tonight

The new Premier League season kicks off tonight, with Sky Sports confirming a number of changes to its coverage, including a record number of live games

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3 h. ago At least 56 feared dead after flash flood devastates remote Himalayan village

Race against time to save 80 people still missing after flood sweeps away dozens of cars and motorbikes

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3 h. ago Teenager who murdered Briton Emma Lovell in Queensland home invasion has sentence reduced on appeal

Queensland attorney general says she is considering high court challenge to the decisionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenager who murdered a British woman during a home invasion in Queensland has had his time in detention reduced by almost 18 months on appeal.But Queensland’s attorney general says she will consider a high court challenge to the decision. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Emma Lovell: teenager who murdered British woman in Queensland home invasion has sentence reduced on appeal

Queensland attorney general says she is considering high court challenge to the decisionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teenager who murdered a British woman during a home invasion in Queensland has had his time in detention reduced by almost 18 months on appeal.But Queensland’s attorney general says she will consider a high court challenge to the decision. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘What about our lives?’: emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia

Trump’s talk of ‘land swaps’ as a simple transaction belies grim reality of what it would mean for people in Zaporizhzhia The city of Zaporizhzhia, an industrial hub in south-east Ukraine, is as good a place as any to grasp the stakes of freezing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine along its current frontlines, or of implementing a “land swap for peace” deal as envisioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Since Russian troops began rolling into Ukraine in February 2022, Zaporizhzhia, with its broad avenues and Stalin-era apartment blocks, has been a 30-minute drive from the frontline. It has been under near-constant attack from missiles and drones. On Sunday, a Russian guided air bomb hit a bus station, wounding 24 people – just another day of suffering in a city that has known many of them. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Loneliness is rife among young men. It’s time to get offline and talk to each other | Alexander Hurst

It’s tempting to scoff, but don’t dismiss the data. Modern man’s failure to forge real, meaningful friendships is bad for everyoneAt first I was startled when the psychologist Angelica Ferrara told me that most of the time it’s women, not men, who want to write about her research into male loneliness. But this is the crux of the issue, isn’t it? That we men need to talk, and we don’t: not nearly enough, anyway.Since 1990, there has been a sharp decline in how many people men say they are close to, says Ferrara, who is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. In the US, two-thirds of men aged between 18 and 23 think that nobody really knows them; one third haven’t seen anyone outside their household in the past week; only a fifth say they have friends they can really count on; and a staggering 69% of young men think “no one cares if men are OK”.Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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