26 h. ago Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals

Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisisRising global heat is now killing one person a minute around the world, a major report on the health impact of the climate crisis has revealed.It says the world’s addiction to fossil fuels also causes toxic air pollution, wildfires and the spread of diseases such as dengue fever, and millions each year are dying owing to the failure to tackle global heating. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Celtic Boys Club abuse victim Gordon Woods admits he’s close to death in emotional social media post

A CELTIC Boys Club abuse survivor has told how he is receiving “end-of-life” care just a day after his daughter's 16th birthday. Gordon Woods took to social media to tell his followers that this would be his “last post” endured a 50-year battle for justice. The 71-year-old was one of 28 ex-starlets who took the...

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43 h. ago Detained British couple tell family last Iran court hearing ‘had not gone well’

Lindsay and Craig Foreman were detained in January and later charged with espionage.

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4 d. ago A third person has died at Disney World in spate of tragedies over just two weeks

Medical examiners are probing the cause of the death at the luxury Disney resort

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7 d. ago Biden's former press secretary launches extraordinary attack on George Clooney for saying what everyone thought about ailing former president

Karine Jean-Pierre blasted actor George Clooney in for writing a high-profile essay telling Joe Biden to drop out of last year's presidential election.

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1 week ago Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods

Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for lifeThe Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States on 18 October 1985: about a year after I was born, and 40 years ago today. It’s as if the company sensed that a sucker who’d spend thousands of dollars on plastic toys and electronic games had just entered the world. Actually, it’s as if the company had sensed that an entire generation of fools like me was about to enter the world. Which is true. That was the time to strike. We were about to be drained of every dollar we received for birthdays, Christmases and all those times our dad didn’t want us to tell our mom about something. (Maybe that last one’s just me.)Despite being slightly older than the NES, a horror I’m only now forced to face as I write this, it felt like that console had always existed in my life. I don’t have many memories from my baby years because I was to...

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1 week ago Scots baby believed to be only person in the world living with two rare conditions

"We had never heard of either of these conditions before, and finding out he had both was so difficult to digest."

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1 week ago TikTok influencer jailed for double murder says sentence 'wholly disproportionate'

A documentary aired on ITV last year telling the story of the crime

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1 week ago ‘I can’t keep living like this’: Ali Riley on ending her stellar soccer career

Angel City and New Zealand defender on injury pain, losing her childhood home in LA’s wildfires and why the sport needs to talk more about IVFUnder a blazing-hot sun, among a crowd of 90,185 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on 10 July 1999, an 11-year-old girl was standing behind the goal where Brandi Chastain struck the penalty that won the World Cup for the United States, soaking in pure inspiration. Ali Riley, now 37, captain of New Zealand and a veteran of five World Cup campaigns, looks back on witnessing that moment in person and says: “That made me want to be a strong woman that could show her abs in front of the entire world and be on the front page of a newspaper. I think about how uncool it was to be good at sports, back then, and that moment was pivotal for me to see those women do what they did and be celebrated for it.”On Sunday it will be Riley being celebrated at what is being billed as her farewell match at her home-town club Angel City, who named her as their first capt...

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1 week ago Disney World guest dies by suspected suicide at luxury hotel close to monorail

A person died in an apparent suicide at Disney World on Tuesday, as per the police. The body was found near Disney's Contemporary Resort, one of the many hotels on the expansive Orlando estate

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2 w. ago The reclusive life of Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins' mother who never gave up on her paedophile son

The Lostprophets singer's death has heaped fresh torment on the one person in the world who never gave up on him - his mother Elaine.

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2 w. ago Sir Alex Ferguson showed true colours after Man Utd's brutal decision amid huge outcry

Sir Alex Ferguson's ambassadorial role with Manchester United was ended last October and the iconic manager had a telling reaction to the controversial decision

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2 w. ago Louder than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s thorniest film might be his best

The director of Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World made his English-language debut with this divisive family drama in 2015. It’s worth watching for Isabelle Huppert aloneGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailLong before Joachim Trier made the Oscar-winning The Worst Person in the World and this year’s festival megahit Sentimental Value, there was 2015’s Louder than Bombs: a far stranger, slipperier film worth watching for Isabelle Huppert’s spectral turn alone. She plays a character also called Isabelle, a renowned war photographer whose secrets haunt her family three years after her sudden death.Her teenage son Conrad (Devin Druid) still daydreams in class about the car crash that claimed her life, imagining her final, panicked moments. His brother Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) and father Gene (Gabriel Byrne) know (and conceal) the truth: that her fateful, split-second swerve was an act of suicide. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Father who won £2.5million Omaze mansion has finally sold it after slashing almost £1m from its value

Chris Milnes, 61, won the stunning 4,650 sq ft new-build mansion near Poole, Dorset, in June last year after entering the Million Pound House Draw without telling his wife or children.

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2 w. ago The surprising habit that could improve gut microbiome in eight weeks

A recent study found that previously inactive people who began resistance training showed notable changes in their gut microbiome

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2 w. ago Rock icon Ozzy Osbourne got so addicted to ice cream he hired his own chef

The Black Sabbath frontman and rock legend made the claim in his tell-all memoir, Last Rites which he penned just before he died earlier this year at the age of 76

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2 w. ago Who founded the Royal Ballet School in 1926? The Saturday quiz

From Anne Boleyn’s ghost to a novel in three volumes, by a lady, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz1 What is Earth’s largest living toothed predator?2 What 1811 work was “a novel in three volumes, By a Lady”?3 Who is the only person to play in a Super Bowl and the World Series?4 What London religious building was built on the site of Tothill Fields prison?5 In which TV show did contestants recall the contents of a conveyor belt?6 Who founded the Royal Ballet School in 1926?7 The event horizon is the boundary marking the limits of what?8 “Saigon shit” is which film’s first line of dialogue?What links: 9 Arabist and archaeologist; pioneering Channel swimmer; Munstead Wood gardener; partnered Toklas?10 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; The Dead; 21 Grams; Mayfair Witches?11 Hindu deity Chhinnamasta; St Denis of Paris; Bertran de Born in Dante; Anne Boleyn’s ghost?12 Trade and Industry Secretary; Northern Ireland Secretary; Ambassador to the US?13 Emile Berliner; Chris Blackwell...

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2 w. ago Microplastics can affect the gut in ways that mirror the impact of cancer, research suggests

Findings are some of the first exploring the impact that microplastics have on the human gut microbiome

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3 w. ago Eat these foods for the healthiest gut microbiome to fight risk of chronic disease

The human gut is made up of trillions of bacteria that need to be taken care of

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3 w. ago Dr Megan Rossi and Gemma Ogston on how to heal your gut and eat 30 plants a week

Gut health is one of the biggest trends of the year. It’s a catch-all term that’s been used to sell supplements, spook people about their diets and encourage disordered eating. But it’s also prompted a spike in sales of gut-friendly foods, an uptick in body literacy and an arguably healthier population. Leading gut health expert Dr Megan Rossi and chef and Mama Shrooms founder Gemma Ogston unpack the myths around the microbiome and explain how to heal the gut and incorporate 30 plants a week. With host Emilie Lavinia, they also dig into GLP-1 drugs, fibre, misinformation and teen eating habits.

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