3 h. ago ‘Sheer luck’: how German backpacker Carolina Wilga was found after 11 nights lost in dense Australian outback

With minimal food and water, the 26-year-old used the sun for navigation, eventually flagging down a passing motoristCarolina Wilga spent 11 freezing nights lost in the Western Australian outback, convinced she would never be found.By “sheer luck” the confused and disoriented German backpacker came across a road, where she flagged down a woman in a passing car on Friday afternoon. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Man finds lost lottery ticket while rescuing family cat, then discovers huge winnings

The lottery ticket was worth $150,000

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20 h. ago Niece who swindled £150,000 from her elderly aunt and uncle to fund luxury lifestyle is ordered to pay £1

Lucy Paginton, 28, from Newport, South Wales, targeted her uncle Frank Hillier, 88, and aunt Mary, 90, who raised her 'like a daughter' from the age of two.

Economics

21 h. ago Rapist who attacked woman at picnic becomes 43rd Rotherham abuser to be convicted as he is jailed for more than six years

Amer Khan, 42, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, met his victim in 2002 when they were both in their early 20s.

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45 h. ago Woman who conned elderly couple out of £150,000 only has to give back £1 because she spent it all on hotels and clothes

Lucy Paginton, 28, blew the money she took on stays at the Celtic Manor, travelling and buying expensive clothes.

Economics

47 h. ago Paul Simon’s daughter tears into Richard Gere for selling childhood home to property developer

‘Pretty Woman’ actor purchased six-bedroom Connecticut mansion from Simon and Garfunkel musician in 2022 for $10.8m

Society

56 h. ago KENNEDY: The most vile politicians I've ever met: From the Congressman who can't pleasure a woman to another who smells. They think they're untouchable... but I'm naming names

Back by popular demand: more people I hate! If you think that narcissistic superstars are bad, let me tell you, power-hungry egomaniac legislators are even worse.

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58 h. ago Dad of Scot accused of murdering woman sends condolences to her family

Kenny Rattray says he is "utterly devastated" and struggling to function since the tragic death of Dr Fortune Gomo on Saturday.

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61 h. ago Too Much: Lena Dunham’s love letter to London, romance and the messiness of being a woman

Too Much: Lena Dunham’s love letter to London, romance and the messiness of being a woman  The Conversation

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61 h. ago BBC actor accused of rape of one woman and abuse of three as soap star's trial confirmed

BBC actor Iain Robertson has been accused of rape and abusive behaviour toward four women with allegations dating from January 2004 up to April 2020

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68 h. ago Gang war probe cops arrest man and woman over Glasgow fire as total reaches 54

Officers have arrested and charged a 39-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman in connection with the wilful fire-raising of a vehicle.

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3 d. ago Body found in woods confirmed as that of Coventry woman Reanne Coulson

West Midlands Police said the body has been formally identified and are continuing to appeal for information about the 34-year-old’s alleged murder.

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3 d. ago Camp vampires! Frisky throuples! How Stephanie Rothman became queen of the B

The director’s mastery of trashy, low-budget exploitation films like It’s a Bikini World and Group Marriage turned her into a cult icon. Now, aged 88, she’s finding out they’re more relevant than everStephanie Rothman first came across the term “exploitation” in a review of one of her own films. It was 1970, and her second solo-directed feature, The Student Nurses, a small-budget indie about trainees at an inner-city hospital, set against Los Angeles’s bubbling counterculture, was doing well at the US box office. (It eventually made more than $1m from a $150,000 budget.) Rothman was pleased but the review took her aback. It called it an “exploitation film” with “surprising depth”.Fifty-five years on and Rothman is a cult legend who fully embraces the label. “I started out with a very snobbish attitude,” she says on a video call from California. “I was shocked that’s what I was making! But as time went on, I began to appreciate what I was able to do, which was to take elements of pop...

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3 d. ago 'I couldn't believe why teenage neighbour confronted me when I got a new driveway'

A woman has taken to Reddit to share the moment she was confronted by her neighbour's 19-year-old daughter after she got a new drive - and people are torn over who is in the wrong

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3 d. ago Woman's skin 'constantly on fire' after extreme reaction to commonly

Francesca Tebbutt, 33, from Clunderwen in Wales, spent years unaware of what was causing the condition that left her feeling like her 'skin was constantly on fire'

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3 d. ago City Hall pay rises take Sadiq Khan's top aides above £150,000 (but no decision on mayor's new salary)

Exclusive: the annual increases received by mayor’s inner circle

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4 d. ago I just moved to Sydney from Italy and I'm deeply bothered by how everyone behaves here

A woman who recently moved to Sydney from Milan has confessed that her everyday interactions are leaving her so confused that she sometimes ends up in tears.

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4 d. ago The thing about ‘ageing gracefully’: whatever you call it, I’ll do it my way

One thing I’ve noticed is that as they grow older, people tend to care less about others’ opinions. Sometimes that’s liberatingI started learning about ageing and ageism – prejudice and discrimination on the basis of age – almost 20 years ago, as I entered my 50s. That’s when it hit me that this getting older thing was actually happening to me. I was soon barraged by advice on how to age well. Many concepts, like “active ageing”, were obvious. (Don’t be a couch potato.) Some, like “successful ageing”, were obnoxious. (In my opinion, if you wake up in the morning, you’re ageing successfully.) One, “ageing gracefully”, was intriguing.Although I’ve written a whole book about ageism, I wasn’t sure I knew how to go about ageing gracefully. For starters, it didn’t seem as though I qualified. When I was speaking at a conference a few years ago, a woman in the elevator recognized my name from my badge. “Are you the one talking about ageing gracefully?” she asked. “If that’s what you’re look...

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4 d. ago Elderly couple 'boiled alive' in basement after turning heating up to 1,000 degrees

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Joan Littlejohn, 84, and partner Glennwood Fowler, 82, were found dead in their South Carolina home's basement several days after they reported issues with their heating

Society

4 d. ago Nurse almost burns to death after freak gust of wind sets her and house on fire

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A woman was almost killed after a freak gust of wind set both her and her house alight. The nurse has admitted the incident has changed her life and has warned the public over the use of fire pits

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