28 h. ago Woman finally finds thermometer that got stuck up her bum as a schoolgirl 22 years ago

The thermometer was discovered lodged in the woman's left buttock in a 3D CT scan 22 years after it was initially lodged there. Her doctor said she was 'lucky there wasn't any mercury inside'

Politics

3 d. ago Jessica Pegula sweeps past Barbora Krejcikova and into US Open semi

American into last four after 6-3, 6-3 win over world No 62Pegula to face either Sabalenka or VondrousovaJessica Pegula continues to redraw the limits of her career in New York. The 31-year-old American swept into the last four of the US Open on Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-3 dismissal of Barbora Krejcikova, becoming the first woman to reach back-to-back semi-finals here without dropping a set since Serena Williams strung together four straight runs between 2011 and 2014.It was a performance of cool authority, built less on fireworks than on persistence and precision. Pegula needed only 86 minutes to subdue her opponent, whose serve collapsed under pressure with seven double faults and a first-serve percentage barely above 40%. Where Krejcikova unravelled, Pegula stayed the course, drawing energy from a nearly full Arthur Ashe Stadium that sensed they were watching a home contender gather momentum. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago I used to judge my mother’s gambling addiction. Now I think she was longing for a fairytale ending

Toni Jordan’s mother gambled fast, ferociously, without any sense of fun. The author has come to realise she was dreaming of a bigger life My mother, Margaret, died in 2018 at 75. It was a good death, all things considered. The very end was savage, as endings often are, but she was in her own home and on her own two feet until the final week. For a woman who’d smoked two packs a day all her adult life, who’d never exercised or even walked to the shops, who refused to drink water (“I’d spew!”) and lived on Coca-Cola, paté on toast, jubes and green olives from a jar – considering all that, she did OK.During my mother’s final days, I had it easy. My sister, Lee, lived closer and is, to be honest, a more nurturing person. She’s caring. Patient. Lee is also better with money than me, but I thought I should at least attempt to help – so at the end, I took charge of Mum’s bank accounts. She lived on the pension and died with a run-down brick veneer villa unit in an over-50s complex, an old...

Events

7 d. ago Family of woman murdered 33 years ago finally see justice as thug killed on death row

Curtis Windom murdered his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 (£1,500 today) and was sentenced to die in November 1992 - almost 33 years ago

Events

1 week ago Woman gains weight during Covid but finally sheds 2 stone with lifestyle change

Kelly Denslowe, 41, from Wigan, has lost two stone in three and a half months after using the Simple app

Sport

3 w. ago Woman's brave final act to save unborn baby after footballer lover had her gunned down

Cherica Adams, 24, was driving when she was gunned down while eight-months-pregnant with an NFL footballer, who was sentenced for conspiracy to commit murder

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