36 m. ago Common gym habit causing horrifying 'face distortion' in people with lip filler: Surgeon warning

As people continue to flock to clinics for their regular lip filler appointments this summer, leading plastic surgeons are asking patients to steer clear from this gym activity.

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37 m. ago Murderland by Caroline Fraser review – what was behind the 1970s serial killer epidemic?

A compulsive new history suggests the crimes of Ted Bundy et al were – at least partly – down to the air they breathedIn 1974, the year Caroline Fraser turned 13, Ted Bundy committed his first confirmed murders. Bundy was handsome, charming, extremely intelligent and sociopathic – “a sexual virus masquerading as a person”. There is persuasive evidence that he began killing much earlier but never this gluttonously. Almost all of his victims had long brown hair, parted in the middle. Sometimes he broke into the women’s houses while they slept, or snatched them off the street. Sometimes he would put on a sling or plaster cast and lure them into his car to help with some fabricated task. If one refused, he tried another, convinced that he would never be caught because they would never be missed. “I mean, there are so many people,” he reasoned. “It shouldn’t be a problem.” Fraser lived on Mercer Island, Washington, near Bundy’s first hunting grounds. Recalling the moment he was first cha...

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40 m. ago Bangladesh reels after rape of Hindu woman filmed and shared online

Public fury, protests, and legal demands follow viral video of gang-rape in Cumilla district

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48 m. ago Labour contingent urged by Lanarkshire MSP not to back 'shameful' disability cuts

The SNP's Clare Adamson says they are 'playing games with people’s lives'

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68 m. ago ITV's The 1% Club stumps viewers with 'impossible' question but some insist it's 'easy'

Viewers of the ITV game show The 1% Club were left baffled by a recent question that it's claimed 99% of people can't answer correctly - but some insisted it was 'too easy'

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87 m. ago Death toll rises to 36 following an explosion and fire at a southern India pharmaceutical factory

A massive explosion and fire at a pharmaceutical factory in Telangana, India, has killed at least 36 people

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94 m. ago Killer whales found sharing food with humans for first time in groundbreaking study

In many cases, Orcas tried to be persuasive, offering food even after people initially refused it

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98 m. ago ‘I have a deep sense of survivor’s guilt’: Four people on 7/7, the day that changed the nation

Netflix’s documentary marks 20 years since the suicide bombings on the capital’s transport network that killed 52 and injured almost 800. Four of those caught up in the atrocity talk to Gabriel Tate about their experiences and their enduring legacy

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2 h. ago Federal officials claim to have cracked the biggest health care fraud schemes in history

State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people in the largest coordinated takedown of health care fraud schemes in Justice Department history that uncovered nearly $15 million in false claims

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2 h. ago Husband of Suzanne Morphew to appear in court to face murder charge a second time

The husband of a woman who disappeared on Mother’s Day 2020 is set to appear in a Colorado court for the first time since being charged again with murder in her death

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2 h. ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers review – finally, Netflix makes a great, serious documentary

Twenty years on, this heart-racing four-part series reconstructs the terror attacks and the vast investigation that followed, without losing sight of the survivors. The detail about the bathtub is astonishingNetflix is not always known for its restraint in the documentary genre, but with its outstanding recent film Grenfell: Uncovered, and now Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers, it appears to be finding a new maturity and seriousness in the field. There have been plenty of recent documentaries on the subject of the attacks and the sprawling investigation that followed – no surprise, given that it is the 20th anniversary this week – but there is still real depth to be found here.Over four parts, this thorough series unravels the initial attacks on the London transport system, which killed 52 people and injured more than 700, then follows that febrile month into the failed bombings of 21 July, and then the police shooting of the innocent Jean Charles de Menezes, a day later. Th...

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2 h. ago Shakespeare in war: Ukraine festival explores intersection to bard’s world

‘There is a big need for theatre to work with existential problems,’ says translator, as Shakespeare productions boom across UkraineThe Ukrainian Shakespeare festival in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk did not open with a play. Another kind of performance was staged on the steps of the theatre, one that did not deal with sad stories of the death of kings but with tragedy unfolding in real life.This was theatre in a different sense: a rally involving several hundred people demonstrating on behalf of Ukrainian prisoners of war, thousands of whom are estimated to remain in Russian captivity. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘My mind was shrieking: “What am I doing?”’ – when the digital nomad dream turns sour

Working remotely from a beach in a far-off land sounds like bliss – and the number of people doing it has soared since 2019. But between bouts of illness, relentless admin and crushing loneliness, many have found comfort in the 9-5 back homeJason, a 34-year-old American, is stumbling around the pool table, cue in hand. Five Saigon beers later, he will shuffle out, clamber on to a scooter and drive back to his beach hut. I know this because I’ve seen the same routine for the past four nights. Meanwhile, Eloise, 38, a French national, is gyrating on the dancefloor. Earlier, on the beach, she told me about her big bitcoin dreams – although she hasn’t got the funds she needs yet. Then there is Bex, a Briton in her late 50s whose eyes are large and wild because she has just popped a pill. She spends only a month a year in the UK – not because she wants to, she says, just to check in with family who are worried about her.Here we are together on this paradise island in south-east Asia, lap...

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2 h. ago ‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: A French region has banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the Pfas icebergOne quiet Saturday night, Sandra Wiedemann was curled up on the sofa when a story broke on TV news: the water coming from her tap could be poisoning her. The 36-year-old, who is breastfeeding her six-month-old son Côme, lives in the quiet French commune of Buschwiller in Saint-Louis, near the Swiss city of Basel. Perched on a hill not far from the Swiss and German borders, it feels like a safe place to raise a child – spacious houses are surrounded by manicured gardens, framed by the wild Jura mountains.But as she watched the news, this safety felt threatened: Wiedemann and her family use tap water every day, for drinking, brushing her teeth, showering, cooking and washing vegetables. Now, she learned that chemicals she had never heard of were lurking in her body, on her skin, potentially harming her ...

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3 h. ago Jury deliberates for 2nd day in the triple murder trial of Australian accused of mushroom poisonings

A jury is deliberating for a second day in the murder trial of an Australian woman accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately feeding them poisonous mushrooms

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5 h. ago Shocking moment girl under 10 drives car through village: Woman, 32, admits to allowing child behind the wheel  

Sophie-Leigh Gemmell allowed the girl, who was aged under 10 at the time, to take the wheel of the vehicle in July last year.

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5 h. ago Solar minigrid brings light and hope to a Goma neighborhood, offering blueprint for rest of Congo

A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a flicker of hope despite widespread poverty and the city’s violent takeover by Congolese rebels early this year

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5 h. ago Secrets of Britain's biggest Wetherspoons. It can fit 1,400 people and has 100 beers on tap. Now HARRY WALLOP exposes exactly what goes on... and why they constantly need to change the carpet

Nearly 75 years ago, George Orwell wrote that the pub was part of 'something distinctive and recognisable in English civilization', a place where all types could gather.

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5 h. ago Woman recovers lottery ticket she threw away and ends up winning top prize

‘I just had this premonition – go get that ticket,’ the Shepherdsville woman told lottery officials

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