35 m. ago High Street beauty giant continues rapid expansion with 'iconic' opening

Sephora opened five stores in 2025 and is now expanding into new territory

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47 m. ago Cheesy celeriac souffle and citrus salad: Thomasina Miers’ recipes to brighten a dark winter’s day

A light but filling no-bechamel souffle with a zingy citrus salad to add a sharp burst of flavour and colourThere is a skill in not wasting food and it’s all about good, old-fashioned housekeeping. If you learn how to store ingredients properly (cool, dark places are handy for spuds, for example) and keep tabs on what’s in your fridge/freezer, you can use everything up before it goes off – and make delicious things in the process. This golden, cheese-crusted souffle uses up the celeriac and spuds left after the festive season, plus any odds and ends of cheeses. It is spectacularly good, especially paired with a sparkling citrus salad. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago The pulmonaut: how James Nestor turned breathing into a 3m copy bestseller

It is the most essential thing we do - yet many of us arguably breathe badly. The author of Breath explains how that can be changedIn the last stages of writing his book, Breath, James Nestor was stressed. “Which was ironic when writing a book about breathing patterns and mellowing out,” he says. The book was late; he’d spent his advance and was haemorrhaging even more money on extra research that was taking him off in new, potentially interesting, directions – was it really necessary, he wondered, to go to Paris to look at old skulls buried in catacombs beneath the city? (It was.)Then a couple of months before the book’s May 2020 publication date, the Covid pandemic hit, and Nestor was advised to wait it out. He couldn’t afford to. “One of the main motivations for releasing it at that time was to get that [on-publication] advance,” he says. “But I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to release it. I said: ‘How are you going to promote a book that can’t be sold in stores, that I can’t tour ...

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1 hour ago He invented mini saunas for frogs – now this biologist has big plans to save hundreds of species

A deadly fungus has already wiped out 90 species and threatens 500 more but Anthony Waddle is hoping gene replacement could be their salvationStanding ankle-deep in water between two bare cottonwood trees on a hot spring day, eight-year-old Anthony Waddle was in his element. His attention was entirely absorbed by the attempt to net tadpoles swimming in a reservoir in the vast Mojave desert.It was “one of the perfect moments in my childhood”, he says. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Hundreds of Scots teens seeking help for drug or alcohol abuse

A report warned there is a relatively high level of drug use among young people in Scotland compared to the rest of the UK.

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5 h. ago Mattel launches autistic Barbie to expand range championing for diversity in toy isles

The new doll joins the a range that includes Barbies with Down syndrome, blindness and vitiligo and was designed with guidance from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network

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5 h. ago Iran RECAP: Trump threatens 25% tariff on any country that trades with Iran 'effective immediately' as death toll 'continues to rise'

The US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on any country that trades with Iran.

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6 h. ago Rachel Reeves refuses to bail out hospitality venues as 2,000 face closure after major U

The Treasury signalled a major U-turn on pubs last week following warnings hundreds could be forced to close after a big hike in rates.

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6 h. ago Walmart is expanding its drone delivery to hundreds of additional stores

Los Angeles and St. Louis are among the cities that will gain access to the retail giant’s $19.99-a-pop aerial shipment service

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6 h. ago ICE shooting: Leavitt doubles down on calling Renee Good a ‘lunatic’ as Noem vows to send hundreds more agents to Minnesota

Leavitt said Good was part of ‘an organized group to interject and to impede on law enforcement operations’

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8 h. ago Hundreds of arrests in Wales during illegal immigration crackdown

Car washes, nail bars, and barber shops were all targeted as part of the UK-wide approach

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8 h. ago Columbia University warns community about personal information stolen months after ‘politically motivated’ hack

The hack came during the summer of 2025, when Columbia was negotiating with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding

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8 h. ago Iran live updates: Trump threatens 25% tariff on any country that trades with Iran 'effective immediately' as death toll 'continues to rise'

The US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a 25 per cent tariff on any country that trades with Iran.

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9 h. ago Scots shopkeeper slams thief caught on CCTV stealing 'vape liquid' while with child

Manish Kumar said one of his staff at the Day Today store on Bridge Street in Tranent, East Lothian, caught him in the act at around 2.45pm on Sunday.

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9 h. ago Coronation Street set for shock death as controversial storyline wraps up say fans

Coronation Street fans have reacted to the way Becky Swain's storyline has apparently come to an end on the ITV soap but think that there could be a further twist in store

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9 h. ago Greenland on edge as Denmark expands Arctic defences amid Trump takeover talk

A £3.5bn Arctic military build-up, new fighter jets and a fortified command HQ in Nuuk underscore Denmark’s determination to defend Greenland after Donald Trump’s renewed threats to seize the island.

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9 h. ago ICE shooting updates: Leavitt doubles down on calling Renee Good a ‘lunatic’ as Noem vows to send hundreds more agents to Minnesota

‘Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff,’ Trump told reporters

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12 h. ago How I turned £300 into £30,000 with crypto. Here's how you could make money too, the pitfalls that could leave you with heavy losses... and the 5 coins to consider

IT engineer Petr Chromy is that delighted his crypto investments have soared a hundred times in value. However, the 32-year-old admits it has been a bumpy ride

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12 h. ago Drone strike kills 3 in Gaza as Hamas prepares to transfer governance to new committee

Hospital officials in Gaza say an Israeli drone strike has killed three Palestinians who crossed the ceasefire line

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13 h. ago Iran protests live: Death toll reaches 648 and could be as high as SIX THOUSAND

The death toll for the protests that have swept across Iran have reached 648, according to a human rights group, and may be as high as 6,000.  

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