50 m. ago Lebanon aims to bring tourists back to its beaches as travel bans finally lift

The World Bank says poverty nearly tripled in Lebanon over the past decade

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53 m. ago Nan's letter with pot of cream cleared man's skin in four days and inspired skincare brand

Nic had spent more than a decade plagued by blemishes and had 'tried what felt like every single product and salon treatment under the sun'

Politics

71 m. ago Is this the end of the road in the hunt for Madeleine McCann? How the desperate new search unfolded in Portugal

After a three-day search effort drew to a close without any sign of a breakthrough, crime correspondent Amy-Clare Martin reports from Praia da Luz on the latest attempt to give the McCann family answers

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79 m. ago Madeleine McCann suspect ‘told police questions about him can never be answered’

‘Was I or my vehicle clearly seen near the crime scene on the night of the crime?’ the man reportedly wrote

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95 m. ago Kabul at risk of becoming first modern city to run out of water, report warns

NGO says Afghan capital’s 7 million people face existential crisis that world needs urgently to addressKabul could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, experts have warned.Water levels within Kabul’s aquifers have dropped by up to 30 metres over the past decade owing to rapid urbanisation and climate breakdown, according to a report by the NGO Mercy Corps. Continue reading...

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95 m. ago Jack Reacher author Lee Child: ‘More sex is medically implausible and I’m as rich and famous as I need to be’

The thriller writer on being a fearless Brummie, how he came to own a Renoir and his six-decade love affair with smokingBorn in the West Midlands, Lee Child, 70, studied law before working in television. After losing his job following a corporate restructuring, he published Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series, in 1997. His novels have been adapted into two films, starring Tom Cruise, and an Amazon Prime series. He now writes with his brother Andrew and they headline Theakston Old Peculier crime writing festival in Harrogate next month. The 30th Reacher thriller, Exit Strategy, is out in November. He is married with a daughter, and lives in the north of England.When were you happiest? In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas. Continue reading...

Culture

2 h. ago Bake Off’s Nadiya Hussain reveals BBC has dropped her cooking show after 10 years

TV chef described the decision as a ‘huge turning point’ after a decade working with the broadcaster

Politics

2 h. ago Emergency workers search for survivors after aerial attack on Kharkiv kills 3

Emergency crews battled flames and searched for survivors after a massive Russian drone and missile strike hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday (7 June), killing at least three people.

Events

2 h. ago Jack Grealish is at a crossroads – and the next step is far from obvious

Grealish appears certain to leave Manchester City this summer, but there may not be many suitors for an attacking midfielder who has produced a limited output of late

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2 h. ago Pheobe Bishop's mum 'ripped apart' as body found in search of missing teen

On Friday, a body was discovered close to the Good Night Scrub National Park, near Gin Gin, in Queensland.

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3 h. ago 'I felt unconfident, unattractive and hadn't had sex for half a decade': How Miranda Levy found her soulmate at 51 after a traumatic divorce

Never mind the passion of youth, says Miranda Levy. After a messy divorce she found her soulmate in her 50s, has got engaged - and is sure this time it's for keeps

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3 h. ago Netflix fans go wild for 'brilliant' British drama 'not to be missed' a decade on from its ITV release to rave reviews

Sheridan Smith plays the titular star, alongside Aneurin Barnard, John Henshaw and others.

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4 h. ago Why do so many slugs and snails appear after it rains? The kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzesSubmit a questionMolly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a podcast answering children’s questions. Do check out her books, Everything Under the Sun and the new Everything Under the Sun: Quiz Book. Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago Manchester United transfer calls could rip up iconic plan for future

Alejandro Garnacho, Rasmus Hojliund and Kobbie Mainoo were not so long ago the future of Manchester United, they could soon all be in the past

Sport

5 h. ago Little Simz on breakthroughs, betrayal and becoming one of the UK’s best

Critics’ favourite and curator of this month’s Meltdown festival, the British artist is flying high. But a nasty legal battle with her closest collaborator and a crisis of confidence left her close to calling it quits. Instead, she put it all on the new albumIt’s an unseasonably warm spring afternoon and sunlight is beaming through the floor-to-ceiling windows of a north London photo studio. When I arrive, Little Simz is out on the balcony. Wearing chunky sunglasses, a skirt and comfy cardigan, she sits on a chair with her back to the sun, eyes on the horizon, and pulls her legs up, wrapping her arms around her knees in a defensive position that’s verging on foetal.It’s curious body language for an artist at the top of her game. At 31, Simz is looking out at a city she can justifiably claim to have conquered since emerging as a teenage rapper more than a decade ago. But that’s not where she’s at right now. “I genuinely felt like I could disappoint everyone,” Simz says when I ask abo...

Politics

5 h. ago It’s my goal to live to 100 – and it’s not just diet and exercise that will help me achieve it | Devi Sridhar

Every time my mind goes down the ‘optimisation’ route, I’m reminded of my job as a public health scientist, looking into the factors that affect how long we will liveProf Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of How Not to Die (Too Soon)For much of the past century, life expectancy continually increased. In most countries in the world, children could hope to live, on average, longer, healthier lives than their parents. This expectation is still true of the mega-wealthy. In fact, tech billionaires and multimillionaires have recently been fixated on finding the secret to longer life, convinced that with enough money, technology and cutting-edge science, they can stave off the inevitable for a few more decades to reach 120 or even 150 years old.But their efforts aren’t trickling down to the rest of us. The world’s health crises are getting worse, with life expectancy going backwards in several high-income countries, such as the UK ...

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5 h. ago Electric Spark by Frances Wilson review: Muriel is as intriguing as her novels

What is so fascinating about Muriel Spark? In the last decade before she died aged 88 in 2006, any interview with the Scottish author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie became an event. The excitement was firstly because she was an artist of the old school, famous not only for her brilliant and complex novels, but also for her unconventional life in Italy, where she lived up a hill with her friend Penelope Jardine, who was also her assistant (and now, in her nineties, her literary executor).

Politics

8 h. ago Pheobe Bishop's mum 'ripped apart' after body found in search for missing teenager

Police searching for 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop, who went missing after failing to check-in for a flight at Bundaberg Regional Airport in Queensland, have said they have discovered a body

Events

9 h. ago Campgrounds closed along Pacific Crest Trail in search for man wanted in daughters' deaths

Authorities have closed a wide swath of popular campgrounds and backpacking areas along the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington as they search for a former Army soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters

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10 h. ago 'Devil in the Ozarks' captured by police after murderous police chief escaped jail using a disguise

A convicted killer and former police chief's daring escape triggered a massive two-week manhunt across Arkansas. After days of fear and an intense multi-agency search he's been captured.

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