71 m. ago Man Utd news: Transfer disagreement latest as budget warning sent – 'I'd be surprised'

Manchester United are eyeing two huge investments but a disagreement between manager Ruben Amorim and co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has emerged

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87 m. ago The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career

From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peakTowards the end of Knife, his 2024 book about the assault at a public event in upstate New York that blinded him in his right eye, Salman Rushdie offers a thought experiment:Imagine that you knew nothing about me, that you had arrived from another planet, perhaps, and had been given my books to read, and you had never heard my name or been told anything about my life or about the attack on The Satanic Verses in 1989. Then, if you read my books in chronological order, I don’t believe you would find yourself thinking, Something calamitous happened to this writer’s life in 1989. The books are their own journey. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Terrifying footage from the eye of Hurricane Melissa emerges as strongest storm on Earth this year sparks mass evacuations

Hurricane Melissa has strengthened into a catastrophic Category 5 storm as it barrels toward Jamaica, threatening the island with record-breaking winds, flooding, and landslides.

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2 h. ago Could I teach myself how to invest in a week, after avoiding it for nearly 30 years?

Due to a lack of investing confidence, women often retire poorer than men. So how can we catch up — fast? Vicky Jessop goes on a crash course to find out

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3 h. ago Why young women are having facelifts: ‘I couldn’t even open my eyes. That’s how swollen I was’

A new kind of customer is being driven towards this invasive surgery by ‘filler fatigue’, the use of weight-loss drugs and the development of new surgical techniques. Many are much younger than ever beforeAmanda Preisinger is anxious about her daughter’s impending 13th birthday party. Not for the usual reasons related to a house full of clamorous preteen children, but because it’s the first time that she will debut her new face to friends and extended family. “Obviously I’m going to tell everyone as they come in, ‘Just so you know, this is not how I look,’” says the 30-year-old real estate agent from south Florida.How she looks is, well, a little startling – her face swollen and preternaturally lifted, as though held together by industrial-grade tape. Her new – and she’s keen to stress, temporary – look is the result of six cosmetic procedures, including an endoscopic mid-facelift, performed by a doctor in Istanbul, Turkey, last month. “My poor husband teared up when he saw me for t...

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3 h. ago Menopause symptoms and how WeightWatchers can help with more than just weight

How the WeightWatchers programme offers support beyond weight loss for women going through menopause.

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3 h. ago Man United's next five fixtures compared to Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City after Brighton

Manchester United will be looking to continue the excellent momentum they have built in recent games as they eye a return to Europe under Ruben Amorim

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4 h. ago Zanzibar is seeing a seaweed boom. Can the women collecting it cash in?

Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics

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7 h. ago These are the unspeakable stories women shared with me about their abuse at the hands of Asian grooming gangs in London. Forget what Sadiq Khan says, this is the truth: CHARLIE PETERS

Like her abusers in Rotherham - and in Bradford, where she was also trafficked - the men she met were of Pakistani heritage. This time, however, they spoke with London accents.

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7 h. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Nobody likes a successful woman, says Shirley Ballas

In a candid conversation, the 65-year-old described how high-achieving women often receive scorn and disapproval, especially in the world of showbusiness where 'no one's your friend'.

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8 h. ago NHS worker must raise £120,000 for cancer treatment or ‘wait to die’

Jamie Scott has been fundraising for life-extending treatment through bake sales

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8 h. ago Shetland star reveals Ashley Jensen picked up an unlikely hobby during filming of new series

SHETLAND star Ashley Jensen won’t have the wool pulled over her eyes in the new series of the cop drama – after her crofter co-star got her in a spin. The Scots actress, 56, returns as DI Ruth Calder in the 10th run of the hit BBC drama following the brutal murder of an elderly...

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8 h. ago Dua Lipa beats two other young Brit celebs as she tops Under 30 Rich List with eye watering nine figure fortune

DUA LIPA has topped heat magazine’s annual Rich List – with a fortune of £129million. And the pop star looks like she’s going to be keeping her crown as she’s miles ahead of second place Tom Holland whose £35.7m pot looks pretty measly by comparison. Lewis Capaldi, Millie Bobby Brown and Molly-Mae Hague, and love...

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9 h. ago ‘Monster’ eye of Hurricane Melissa swirls on path to Jamaica

Satellite imagery shows the “monster” eye of Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm recorded this year, that is currently hurtling towards Jamaica.

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10 h. ago ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Eyes London Location for Potential Season at Hulu

‘Only Murders in the Building’ Eyes London Location for Potential Season at Hulu  Wyoming News Now

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14 h. ago The Guardian view on global aid cuts: a malaria resurgence could be the canary in the coalmine | Editorial

The consequences of Donald Trump’s decision to scrap USAID, and other countries’ decisions to reduce funding, are playing out in deadly fashionMalaria is a pandemic disease that hits the voiceless hardest: most of those who fall ill and die are small children and pregnant women in Africa. It is the leading infectious killer of the continent, responsible for nearly 600,000 deaths a year. Cases are rising and there is an urgent need for more funding, yet western donor countries are instead cutting back on aid. We still hear brave talk about eliminating malaria. But an expert report now warns of a potential resurgence that could add almost a million more deaths to the annual toll by the end of the decade.Most of the money to fight the mosquito-borne disease – 59% – comes through the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Its executive director, Peter Sands, said last week at the World Health Summit in Berlin that of the three killers, the one that kept him awake...

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14 h. ago Chelsea could have secret weapon in race for wonderkid eyed by Arsenal and Man City

Chelsea have been building a squad packed with young talent and the latest teenage prospect on their radar is also being eyed by some of their Premier League rivals

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14 h. ago Tom Aspinall reveals aftermath of gruesome eye injury suffered at UFC 321 as he fires brutal dig at Cyril Gane

Aspinall retained his UFC heavyweight title via no contest in an anticlimactic end to the fight that saw the Brit struggling to see and rushed to hospital, where he was treated for the injury.

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14 h. ago You were asleep but swear you weren’t: what is paradoxical insomnia?

We don’t always know when we’re asleep or awake. This can affect how rested we feelIn 2018, Hannah Scott, a sleep researcher at Flinders University, waited for a woman to fall asleep.This can take time when the subject is connected to equipment measuring brain activity, eye movement, heart rate and muscle activation. But about 30 minutes after the woman closed her eyes, Scott saw the telltale signs of sleep from the electroencephalogram, or EEG: a shift to lower-frequency brainwaves. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips gives verdict on who should replace Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly

The 82-year-old, who was on the panel of the dance competition between 2004 and 2008, appeared on Monday's episode of Loose Women to chat about the importance of carers.

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