1 hour ago In the shadow of melting glaciers: life in the heartland of the Incas’ former empire – a photo essay

Ancient rituals and a profound respect for ‘Mother Earth’ bolster fragile Andean communities as the climate crisis and unchecked mining take their tollWords and photographs by Giordano SimonciniIn Cusco, the Quechua people are at the forefront of the climate struggle. Amid Peru’s sacred mountains and ancestral plateaux, they confront daily challenges, such as parched pastures, melting glaciers, disruptions to agricultural cycles and persistent mining that damages the land.In this context, survival itself becomes an act of resistance.Sheep grazing in the Sacred Valley of the Urubamba River, once the heartland of the Incas’ empire Continue reading...

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7 h. ago When I think about the burglar menacing my mother, the memories are slippery. She wasn’t chirping. She was screaming

Natasha Sholl was four ( or perhaps five?) when a man entered her family home wielding a knife ( or a box cutter? or a screwdriver?)My mother is chirping, like a small bird. I laugh. What a fun game. And when I run through the house to find her, there is a man in a balaclava with a knife to her throat. She is not chirping. She is screaming. The expectation of one thing when the opposite is true. And yet in my memory it is still a chirp, not a scream.When I think about the robbery, even now, decades later, it is my toes that tingle. My ankles. I was four at the time. Or five. I do not remember. Time, what a slippery thing. My friend Hayley was over to play. Sometime after the chirping, the man with a knife to my mother’s throat told us to go upstairs to my room and not to open the door. I do not remember this happening but, when I reverse-engineer the events, I know it to be true. Until it’s not. Maybe it was my mum. Maybe my mum had told us to go to my room and not to come out. What...

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15 h. ago Woman screams after finding unexpected item inside white loaf of bread

Charlotte Hobbs was making herself a sandwich on Monday when she realised part of her white loaf had been spliced with a brown one - but it's left her less than impressed

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16 h. ago Miley Cyrus gives rare insight into her relationship as she teases 'cougar' title

Grammy Award winner Miley Cyrus spoke to her mother Tish Cyrus and sister Brandi Cyrus about her partner Maxx Morando on an episode of their podcast Sorry We're Cyrus

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17 h. ago King Charles knew his mother had died after hearing two heartbreaking words

Birkhall: The King’s Secret Sanctuary on Channel 5 looks back at the moment King Charles realised he had lost his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and how his life changed forever

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20 h. ago Making Orlando proud: English coaching duo’s unlikely route to NWSL glory

Seb Hines and Giles Barnes have transformed the fortunes of Orlando Pride to deliver the first trophies in club’s historyTo followers of women’s football in the United States, they are the English coaching duo who have delivered unprecedented success to a previously trophyless club; to English football fans with particularly sharp memories, they are the former Middlesbrough and Derby youngsters who left to play in the MLS. To each other, Seb Hines and Giles Barnes are just old mates, stretching back to their days sharing a room together on England youth international camps.“It brings an unwavering trust. We can challenge each other and there’s no ill intent behind it,” is how Barnes sums up the benefits of a head coach and his assistant being longtime friends. Yet the unlikely chain of events that led to their reunion in Florida is almost as improbable as Orlando Pride leaping from 10th place to the title in two years. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago ‘If men couldn’t have sex with me, they didn’t know what to do with me’: Alanis Morissette on addiction, midlife liberation and the predatory 90s

She made her name with rage-fuelled anthems – and sold 75m records in the process. Now, with a highly anticipated Glastonbury slot, the California-dwelling earth mother is ready to let rip again Alanis Morissette asks which version of her I wish to hear from: “The hormonal bitch who has a lot to say? The people-pleasing, kind, amenable part? They’re all here.” It’s 9am in sunny Los Angeles and the ­Canadian-born singer-songwriter is ­wearing a slouchy top, her wavy hair loose. She’s long been aware of these different “parts”, that her life is full of contradiction. “I have 14 different opinions about one thing.” It’s why, aged 19, she wrote Hand In My Pocket (lyrics include: I’m high, but I’m grounded / I’m sane, but I’m ­overwhelmed), one of several anthems on Jagged ­Little Pill, the album released 30 years ago this month. Back then, in the unenlightened 90s, people found this sort of talk unnerving. “They were like, ‘Whoa, that’s scary. What are you talking about?’”“They cal...

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21 h. ago 17 fantastic photos that prove the 80s were the best decade in which to be alive

It was the decade of big hair, bold colours and brash personalities - an era screaming out to be seen and heard.

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24 h. ago Haunting final words man screamed before he was eaten by bear with girlfriend

He was known as a 'bear whisperer' but the creatures Timothy Treadwell spent his life observing would prove to be his downfall, as chilling audio footage revealed

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26 h. ago SeaWorld announces death of youngest orca with 'playful spirit' as staff share heartache

Staff have shared their heartache following the death of Kamea, they described her as 'playful and mischievous' and shared their many happy memories of watching her grow

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26 h. ago Iran is the enemy Netanyahu has always wanted to destroy. Even from their bomb shelters, most Israelis support his war | Aluf Benn

Within Israel, Iran is seen as the ultimate threat. The prime minister knows this is his chance to rewrite his bloodied legacy “It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany The Jewish people will not allow a second Holocaust.” Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, recited slogans like these incessantly for decades, urging action against the gravest threat to the Jewish state – a nuclear-armed Iran. He conveyed the message to successive US presidents. He presented a bomb cartoon at the UN. At countless Holocaust memorial events he described Iran’s nuclear ambitions as the present-day “final solution”.Netanyahu talked and talked about the pressing Iranian threat, but his listeners were not convinced. They dismissed him as an alarmist whose deadline Iran crossed year after year without deploying a nuclear weapon (it still hasn’t). Netanyahu’s critics at home taunted him as a chicken who would never dare to attack Iran’s nuclear installations – unlike his more decisive predecessors, who had ord...

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28 h. ago Teen speaks of shock after surviving lightning strike in New York’s Central Park

"I was so scared to lose him because it was looking very, very bad,” the teen’s mother said

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36 h. ago Police in northeast Ohio arrest man who allegedly menaced GOP US Rep. Max Miller on interstate

A northeast Ohio man was arrested and charged with threatening Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller while the two were traveling along Interstate 90 near Cleveland on Thursday

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39 h. ago Burglar who murdered grandmother, 69, in her own home after her horrified daughter watched the break

Natasha Flynn Farrell, 38, watched on in fear as video footage revealed the moment Dean Mears, 34, forced his way into 69-year-old Catherine Flynn's seaside home.

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39 h. ago Boy, 15, heard screaming for help after machete stabbing, court told

Three teenagers appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday over the killing.

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39 h. ago Emmett Till memorial in Mississippi could be removed as part of DOGE

Massive reduction to National Parks Service budget and Donald Trump’s culture war against ‘DEI’ could spell end for national monument to Black teen murdered by a mob of white men in 1955

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40 h. ago Parents warned to change passwords NOW as game popular with kids linked to 'mother of all data breaches'

Parents have been warned to change their passwords now a game popular with children is linked to the 'mother of all data breaches'.

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41 h. ago The REAL cost of forgiving my husband's affair. My body was screaming to leave, but I took him back... then his lover sent me a video so cruel I'll never be the same

When you hear about someone who stays with their cheating husband, it's easy to judge. I probably would've too, once. Before it happened to me.

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41 h. ago ‘We were screaming at tennis balls’: Jurassic World Rebirth stars on filming with fake dinosaurs

We talk with Jurassic World Rebirth stars Mahershala Ali and Rupert Friend about what it’s like to act opposite dinosaurs which are actually just tennis balls on sticks.

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41 h. ago Race Across the World stars Sioned and Fin share relationship update after almost calling it quits

The winners of this year's Race Across the World were announced last week, with mother-and-son duo Caroline and Tom Bridge taking home the £20,000 prize

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