4 h. ago Remote town horror after learning 'everyone is a cousin' as genetic disorder identified

A town battling the effects of incest and inbreeding has discovered 'everyone is a cousin' leading to rare genetic disorders rattling the population – leaving many unable to walk and talk

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7 h. ago Woman unable to walk or talk seeks medical help 1,000 miles away after harrowing UK experience

A woman who showed no symptoms has been left unable to walk and talk. Following claims that the NHS wanted to discharge her, the 45-year-old has been taken 1,000 miles away to help with her recovery

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9 h. ago Brothers say morale high despite ‘achingly hard’ conditions on Pacific row

Ewan, Jamie, and Lachlan Maclean are 40 days and some 2,700 nautical miles into their bid to row the 9,000-miles from Peru to Australia.

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12 h. ago Michelle de Kretser wins Stella prize for book that ‘expands our notions of what a novel can be’

The two-time Miles Franklin winner adds the $60,000 prize for women and nonbinary writers to her accolades, for a novel that troubles the line between fiction and memoirGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“I wouldn’t say I set out to break forms, as to invent new ones,” Michelle de Kretser says of her novel Theory and Practice, winner of the $60,000 Stella prize for women and non-binary writers. “I wanted to write a novel where the reader thinks it isn’t a novel because I’m using nonfictional devices and forms.”Tricksy and sly, Theory and Practice – the Australian author’s eighth novel – troubles the line between fiction and memoir. It opens with several pages of another ostensibly unrelated novel that is abandoned in its early stages; the reader simply turns a page and is confronted with the line: “At that point, the novel I was writing stalled.” What comes after seems suspiciously like memoir – particularly to anyone vaguely familiar with de Kretser’s biography – following ...

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32 h. ago The agony and ecstasy of watching Spurs win a trophy from 10,000 miles away | Max Rushden

Emotion of Europa League final victory hits hard, particularly tangled in with homesickness watching from Australia at 5amI didn’t really cry until Son Heung-min was handed the trophy – the camera hadn’t cut to him enough at full time. Of all the players who look sad when they’re sad, Sonny really looks sad. Building up to the Europa League final all I could imagine was a disconsolate South Korean walking around the pitch applauding mournfully. The Harry Kane walk. His smile when shiny-shoed Aleksander Ceferin hands him the trophy broke me. Apparently the Uefa Cup weighs 15kg – the same as my three-year-old. That trophy certainly looked lighter than when young Ian demands to be carried home from the park.As a very sleep-deprived middle-aged dad of young kids, the emotion of football back home hits a lot harder than it used to. I found myself weeping at the videos of Crystal Palace fans after the FA Cup final. Someone focused from person to person, pausing for just enough time on eac...

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32 h. ago Passengers scream as flight suffers severe turbulence flying through deadly Delhi storm

Over 200 passengers faced a harrowing mid-air experience when the aircraft was caught in the violent storm

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53 h. ago Family feel 'empty' after young dad died of 'exceptionally rare' condition

Damien Bedford's family say they will 'continue to seek answers' after a coroner ruled his medical care was 'appropriate' and had not played any role in his death

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54 h. ago Derek and Quentin, twins from Indiana who live in the woods: Robin de Puy’s best photograph

‘I spotted them in a town called Elkhart, jumped out of the car and ran towards them. If you didn’t know their story, you might think they were runners or cyclists. Then you see the tattoos’My first trip photographing Americans was in 2015, when I drove 8,000 miles across the country on a Harley-Davidson. I’d spent too long caught up in assignments and wanted to take some time off from commercial and editorial work to follow my own creative urges. America offered an opportunity to explore a landscape I didn’t know, and was far enough away from my home in the Netherlands to ensure it wouldn’t be easy for me to just go back if things got difficult.I think Europeans often don’t understand how tough life in America can be. I wanted to show real, underrepresented people who are just trying to survive, while also drawing attention to how rich their lives can be. At a time when people seem increasingly polarised in their views, my images seek to challenge the assumptions that often divide ...

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60 h. ago Woman unable to walk or talk after brain bleed driven 1,100 miles for care after 'nightmare' NHS experience

Anna Chithrakala, 45, was left unable to walk, talk or move the right side of her body after suffering a brain bleed

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69 h. ago Teacher left paralysed by brain bleed travels over 1,000 miles to recover after ‘nightmare’ NHS treatment

Anna Chithrakala, 45, says she tried to “escape” the NHS hospital she was in

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3 d. ago Hailey Bieber reveals harrowing birth experience that ‘freaked her out’

Bieber gave birth to her son Jack Blues Bieber in August 2024

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4 d. ago Young British woman held on drug charges in Sri Lanka could be linked to Culley case

Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, flew from the same Bangkok airport as Bella May Culley, who was arrested a day earlierWithin a day of Bella May Culley being arrested at a Georgian airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 14kg of cannabis, the same fate met another Briton 3,000 miles away.As Charlotte May Lee stepped off her flight at Bandaranaike International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka last Monday, the 21-year-old former cabin attendant was arrested for an alleged attempt to bring in £1.2m worth of a synthetic cannabis strain known as kush in her two suitcases. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘Mum, my brain’: how I learned to walk, talk and even dance again after a devastating stroke at 36

I was riding high as a music journalist with a new book in the shops when I had what I thought was a migraine. In fact, it was a burst aneurysm and I needed emergency surgery. Two years into my recovery, can I learn how to find joy again?I am a dancer. The dark is usually a friend to me, allowing me to stretch and move my limbs into unfashionable positions as music washes over me. My music journalism career means I have spent more than two decades at gigs and in clubs, falling in love with music, contorting my body, two‑stepping, making any space into a dancefloor, then going home and writing about it.Two years ago, when I was 36, I was riding high at the launch party for my first book, about housing, home and music, and I danced as R, my husband, DJ’d Tems, Asake and Burna Boy. The publishers had put up a billboard about the book; I remember walking to the petrol station to buy the papers and read the reviews, and feeling relieved that they were good. I began preparing fo...

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7 d. ago Warning over 'dangerous' nasal tanning sprays sold on social media

One woman was in hospital "unable to breathe" after suffering a severe reaction to an unlicensed nasal tanning spray she bought online

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9 d. ago Mum of Brit teen facing life in jail begged her to come home before worrying sign

Bella May Culley, 18, was reported missing while on holiday in Thailand - only to turn up 4,000 miles away in Georgia where authorities have accused her of hauling cannabis

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9 d. ago Revealed: 'Bonnie and Clyde' TikTok boasts of Brit student who vanished in Thailand...before ending up in court 4,000 miles away on drugs charges

In a series of social media posts shortly before her arrest, Bella May Culley, 18, had boasted about her 'Bonnie and Clyde' lifestyle, while sharing videos flaunting her money and 'smoking cannabis'.

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9 d. ago Bella May Culley sent final message before vanishing on holiday

Bella May Culley, 18, faces decades in a prison in Georgia as her shocked family reacts to her arrest, some 4,000 miles away from where they thought she was on holiday

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9 d. ago Brit teen who vanished in Thailand faces life in hellhole prison 4,000 miles away

Bella May Culley, 18, was the subject of a huge search after she was reported missing while believed to be holidaying in Thailand - but she was arrested in Georgia on drug charges

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9 d. ago Brit teen Bella May Culley faces LIFE in hellhole jail after arrest in Georgia 'on drug offences'

Bella May Culley, from Billingham, County Durham, was reported missing in Thailand but it has now emerged she has been detained more than 4,000 miles away in Georgia

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9 d. ago Shock update on British girl, 18, reported missing on holiday in Thailand as she is found in hellish situation 4,000 miles away

Bella May Culley, 18, sparked a massive international search operation this week as she hadn't been in touch with her family since Saturday.

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