18 m. ago Precise date interstellar visitor will reveal itself as 'alien mothership' or comet confirmed

The mysterious interstellar object moving toward Earth is set to reveal its true origins, which a scientist said is either an 'alien mothership' oa r natural comet.

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41 m. ago Taylor Swift smashes chart records and closes in on The Beatles

The Life Of A Showgirl scores the biggest first week sales of the year in the UK and lands Taylor Swift her 14th chart topper. She is just one behind The Beatles in terms of No1 albums. She has also sold more vinyl than any other artist this century.

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41 m. ago Taylor Swift breaks UK chart records with album The Life Of A Showgirl

Swift’s album debuts at number one, with her tracks in the top three of the singles chart.

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58 m. ago John Lodge was a pioneering force of British rock’s most underrated band

The late musician helped steer the Moody Blues into an exciting and groundbreaking new era of psychedeliaMoody Blues singer and bassist John Lodge dies aged 82The moment everything changed for John Lodge and his bandmates in the Moody Blues came one night at the Fiesta club in Stockton. Lodge and Justin Hayward were new to the band, Lodge playing bass and Hayward guitar, who had been booked into a well-paid series of cabaret shows in northern England. The Moodies were playing a revue-style show, with bits of R&B punctuated by comedy numbers, dressed in blue suits. They’d had a big hit a couple of years earlier with Go Now, but by 1966 they looked and sounded passé.After the show, Hayward told me a few years ago, a man came to the dressing room to see the band. “Normally they would say something like, ‘Oh, you’re great.’ But he said, ‘I just thought I’d tell you, you’re the worst fucking band I’ve seen in my life. You’re rubbish. And somebody’s got to tell you.’” Hayward and sing...

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61 m. ago Inside glamorous life of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber's 'nepo baby' daughter Kai as she wows at fashion week

From her impressive career to her lavish upbringing in the Hamptons, here's everything we know about the 16-year-old.

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62 m. ago It's the Nigel Farage show in Welsh town centre as candidate stays quiet

We challenged Nigel Farage on a disgraced former colleague and misleading claims about the Nation of Sanctuary – but there was no interview with by-election candidate Llŷr Powell

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64 m. ago Mum's heartbreaking tribute to her 'beautiful baby girl' who died after falling ill at school

'I don't know what life will look like now'

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66 m. ago More than 120 million set to get drenched this weekend as coastal system hammers East Coast

The storm is expected to impact travel up and down the East Coast, bringing gusting winds up to 60 miles per hour and major coastal flooding

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73 m. ago The definitive guide to which dog is best for YOU: From hidden costs to secret medical issues, DR PETE WEDDERBURN reveals everything you need to know about these popular breeds

How do you choose your friends? Do you demand a meeting with their mother and father? Well, you should... if you're choosing a dog to be your family's new best friend.

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90 m. ago A blood test could diagnose chronic fatigue with 96% accuracy. Here’s what we know

Despite affecting millions of people worldwide, myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome remains poorly understood

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92 m. ago I have been terrified of spiders my whole life. This is how I finally cured my arachnophobia

When her crippling phobia meant Gaby Huddart might not see her daughter in Australia for years, she knew she had to take drastic action.

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92 m. ago Man fighting for life after 'being shot' in Walthamstow armed police standoff

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1 hour ago Ronnie O’Sullivan continues to breeze through Xi’an Grand Prix draw

O’Sullivan has dropped just three frames in four matches this week.

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1 hour ago The Guide #212: The Taylor Swift backlash has me asking: how much good music can one artist really produce?

In this week’s newsletter: The mixed response to The Life of a Showgirl is proof that even the biggest star isn’t immune to creative burnoutAmid the flood of discourse around Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl, one recurring sentiment jumped out: that the album – which many critics have declared a misstep in Swift’s otherwise consistently solid discography – felt hurried, hasty, rushed. “The Life of a Showgirl Is 40 Minutes of Elevator Music Rushed Out to Break a Beatles Record”, read the particularly savage headline of a piece on Collider. In the Guardian music desk’s excellent round table on the album, just about every panellist expressed a wish that Swift would take a break from the constant churn of releasing records, in order to recapture a lost spark.And it has been quite the churn. Since 2019 Swift has on average released an album a year, and that’s not counting the Taylor’s Version re-records of her older albums. All of this managed alongside a certain billion-dollar-gros...

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1 hour ago Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua question remains with heavyweight division set for shake

Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are both targeting returns in 2026 but the heavyweight division is likely to see major changes next year as big names prepare to exit the scene

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1 hour ago Loose Women star Charlene White reveals her father has taken his own life in heartbreaking Instagram post

White said her father died after ‘living with a dark cloud’ over his head that he ‘couldn’t lift’

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1 hour ago Angelina Jolie says she hasn’t ‘set foot’ in winery since ‘painful events’ leading up to Brad Pitt divorce

The exes have been embroiled in a legal battle over the sale of the French winery since 2022

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2 h. ago People urged to have their say on wind farm which could power 96,000 homes

Carreg Wen wind farm planned for RCT is one of three schemes in the pipeline from Welsh Government owned Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru

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2 h. ago Snoop Dogg and Ryan Reynolds rivalry heats up as hint dropped over rapper's Welsh visit

Snoop Dogg has purchased a stake in EFL Championship side Swansea City and is expected to attend the club's clash with Hollywood-owned rivals Wrexham on December 19

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2 h. ago Historic church in Welsh town to become shops and restaurant

Plans to demolish Christ Church Presbyterian in Barry were met with widespread opposition in 2021. The building's future has now been set on a very different course

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