84 m. ago Tom Cruise in Cannes and Panama protests: photos of the day – Wednesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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2 h. ago The Latest: Cassie will return to the witness stand in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ trial

The R&B singer Cassie returns to the witness stand Wednesday after a day spent recounting grotesque and humiliating details of life with her ex-boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs

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4 h. ago Cassie Ventura to resume testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex

Former girlfriend says she endured years of physical abuse, control and violence at music mogul’s handsSinger Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, a former girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs and a key witness in the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering trial of the music mogul, will return to the witness stand on Wednesday morning, as the high-profile trial enters its third day.Ventura, who is eight and a half months pregnant, testified on Tuesday that during her decade-long on-and-off relationship with Combs, she endured years of physical abuse, control and violence and detailed drug-fueled sexual encounters involving male escorts that she said were directed by Combs. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Woman widowed at 31 after husband falls ill the day after their wedding

Laura Burr is now campaigning for mandatory NHS health checks for young adults

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18 h. ago York’s Dante Festival Day One: Top betting tips from Daily Star expert Jason Heavey

Jason Heavey - the Daily Star Chief Tipster - has plenty of fancies on day one of the Dante meeting at York on Wednesday, plus tips for Yarmouth, Newton Abbot, Bath and Perth

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29 h. ago 'My autistic daughter’s in a flap about our engaged son’s big day swap'

Resident agony aunt Coleen Nolan has advice for a mum who's finding herself torn between her children as they battle over her son having to change his wedding day

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4 d. ago Zara Tindall's uncomfortable expression during Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's big day couldn't have been more different than royal weddings of the past and guests suggested it was the most diverse major event in the Queen's then 66-year reign.

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4 d. ago The bizarre reason brides are burying sausages the night before their wedding day

As wedding season approaches, many British nearlyweds hope and pray to have good weather on their special day - as the UK is famously known for its rainy climate.

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6 d. ago A Place In The Sun's Laura Hamilton shows off her toned figure in a black bikini as she enjoys relaxing spa day with fellow presenter Hayley Sparkes

Laura Hamilton showed off her toned figure in a black bikini as she enjoyed a relaxing spa day with a pal on Wednesday.

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6 d. ago A Place In The Sun's Laura Hamilton shows off her toned figure in a black bikini as she enjoys relaxing spa day with a pal

Laura Hamilton showed off her toned figure in a black bikini as she enjoyed a relaxing spa day with a pal on Wednesday.

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6 d. ago Victoria Beckham's clash with 'vile' Nicola Peltz years before Brooklyn feud

Victoria and David Beckham have reportedly been concerned for their eldest son Brooklyn since his wedding day to wife Nicola Peltz back in 2022, years before their latest clash

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7 d. ago Duchess of Edinburgh's designer wedding day perfume is now £30 thanks to Amazon half

The Duchess of Edinburgh is said to have worn this designer scent on her wedding day– and Amazon is now offering it at a discount in its beauty sale

Economics

7 d. ago Duchess Sophie's Ralph Lauren wedding day perfume is now £30 thanks to half price sale

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, has been wearing the same perfume for years – and it's now available for a fraction of the price in the Amazon spring sale

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7 d. ago Amanda Owen brands ex husband Clive a 'frustrating and horrible thing' as pair locks horns over his 'unbearable' behaviour in fallout from surgery

The second series of the programme hit our screens on More4 last month and has been following the former married couple and their nine kids renovate farmhouse Anty John into a home.

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7 d. ago Wedding guest trashed Scots hotel room reading messages on partner's phone

Kevin Taylor had been a guest at a wedding earlier in the day before smashing furniture and a mobile phone at a hotel in St Andrews.

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7 d. ago Wedding guest trashed Scots hotel room after reading messages on partner's phone

Kevin Taylor had been a guest at a wedding earlier in the day before smashing furniture and a mobile phone at a hotel in St Andrews.

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9 d. ago Dear Coleen: I feel sad I can't be with my daughter on her wedding day

She invited me and her dad, of course, but we can’t go as my sister is extremely ill and I’ve been caring for her, as she doesn’t have a partner and has no children either.

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9 d. ago Emmerdale wedding at risk as John Sugden's secrets finally exposed

Emmerdale's John Sugden - played by Oliver Farnworth - has been keeping secrets from his fiancé Aaron Dingle that could threaten to ruin their wedding day on the ITV soap opera

Society

1 week ago Lawyers for New Orleans clergy abuse survivors ramp up pressure to depose archbishop

Lawyers for hundreds of survivors argue Gregory Aymond should be questioned under oath about role in the clergy abuse crisisA group of attorneys representing clergy abuse survivors is ramping up pressure to get the archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, under oath before a judge decides whether to kick the church out of bankruptcy.Lawyers for hundreds of survivors filed a motion Wednesday to end the church’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a day before the fifth anniversary of a case that’s paid none of about 500 survivors but has cost the archdiocese around $45m in legal and professional fees. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Messi and Ronaldo’s continental exits show the limits of their swan songs

The two best players of their generation suffered same-day disappointments that show the game is starting to move onNot long ago, the results might have been seismic. Or at the very least, worthy of an eyebrows-raised remark. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two leading lights of their generation, the dominant on-field forces for most of this century, both going out of continental competition in the semi-finals? Both in upsets? On the same day?On Wednesday, it actually happened. Messi’s Inter Miami fell to Vancouver 5-1 on aggregate in the Concacaf Champions Cup, and Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr lost 3-2 to Kawasaki Frontale in the AFC Champions League Elite at a nominally neutral site in Saudi Arabia. Continue reading...

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