1 hour ago Sunday with Paul Chowdhry: ‘I’ll have a big brunch, then lie around watching YouTube’

The comedian talks about visiting farmers’s markets now that he’s middle-class, getting ghosted by his cleaner and going to the gym with other losers and lonersSunday highlights? The farmers’ market in north London, now that I’ve worked my way into being middle-class. I’ll buy smoked trout, organic chickens, pheasant, vegetables and a very good Chinese chilli oil.How do you get there? On one of those electric bikes, like Uber cyclists. I’m usually stealthed up with a mask, else people go: ‘There’s Paul Chowdhry on a bike. What you doing on a bike, bruv?’Do you cook? I live on my own, so I have no choice. I’ll have a big brunch, then lie around watching YouTube.What do you watch? That’s a good question. Nowadays, you don’t even know. You just scroll through stuff. Then I might go to the gym.Who’s at the gym Sunday? Losers, loners, and reclusives, like me.Sunday evening? I’ll make dinner from what I bought from the farmers’ market. Before freezing most of the stuff you think: ‘Might a...

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10 h. ago Infamous Netflix Fyre Festival sequel postponed as artist reveals talks to play event

Despite being sentenced to jail on fraud charges and grabbing the world's attention with an incredibly disastrous music festival, Billy McFarland decided to give it another shot

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10 h. ago Infamous Netflix Fyre Festival sequel postponed as fans 'pretend to be shocked'

Despite being sentenced to jail on fraud charges and grabbing the world's attention with an incredibly disastrous music festival, Billy McFarland decided to give it another shot

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14 h. ago Strictly star Sarah Hadland reveals unusual addiction she finds 'so powerful'

Strictly star actress Sarah Hadland gets her kicks by cleaning and watching cleaning videos on YouTube - with one particularly unpopular chore her favourite household job to do

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15 h. ago ‘I love my country but nobody is safe’: the plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria

English-speaking minority refugees caught up in clashes between the military and separatists are stranded in neighbouring countryAmid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares. Outside a closed graphic design shop overlooking them from a small hill, Solange Ndonga Tibesa tells the story of being uprooted from her homeland in north-west Cameroon.In June 2019 she and other travellers were abducted with her three-month-old baby by secessionists, who accused them of supporting the military. Their captors repeatedly hit them with butts of their guns, keeping them in a forest without food or water. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago British tourist faces hellhole US jail term after he caused wrong

Thomas Robb, 22, drove past at least two 'No Entry' signs before travelling the wrong way on a road in Rockland County, New York and colliding into another vehicle.

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19 h. ago I'm A Celeb star Jack Maynard's new heiress wife shares stunning first wedding snaps from inside their intimate London ceremony

The YouTuber and I'm A Celeb star, 32, tied the knot with his long-term girlfriend Lily, 30, at Chelsea Old Town Hall on Wednesday.

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19 h. ago Harborough FC ‘surprised’ as 100 Spanish fans turn up to watch game

Fans are subscribers to YouTube channel focused on English football whose founder wants to strengthen links with clubFootball tourism is usually seen at Premier League stadiums such as Old Trafford, Anfield and the Emirates, so fans of Harborough Town, who compete in the seventh tier of the football pyramid, were stunned when 100 Spaniards arrived at Bowden Park to watch them take on St Ives Town.The Spanish fans, who turned up last Saturday, were subscribers to a Spanish YouTube channel, La Media Inglesa (LMI), focused on English football, which has now started arranging overseas trips for its followers. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Priest remanded over alleged attempted sexual communication with child

Edward Gallagher, 58, appeared before court via videolink from Strand Road Police Station in Londonderry on Saturday.

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22 h. ago The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’

Mary Annette Pember’s expansive and shocking book Medicine River looks at the many ways that the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native familiesMary Annette Pember will publish her first book, Medicine River, on Tuesday. She signed to write it in 2022 but feels she really started work more than 50 years ago, “before I could even write, when I was under the table as a kid, making these symbols that were sort of my own”.A citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, Pember is a national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today. In Medicine River, she tells two stories: of the Indian boarding schools, which operated in the US between the 1860s and the 1960s, and of her mother, her time in such a school and the toll it took. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago ‘This trick is incredibly risky for him’: Ankit Ghosh’s best phone picture

The Indian photographer captures his neighbour breathing fire at the finale of a major Hindu festivalIn a narrow lane in Kolkata, West Bengal, Ankit Ghosh paused for a moment to take this photo. Ghosh was among crowds attending Vijaya Dashami, the last day of the Durga Puja, a festival he describes as “cultural potpourri”. He says, “It’s celebrated all across India, but there is no other place to experience it better than West Bengal. As this was the grand finale, the atmosphere was one of joy, pride and celebration.”The man in the photo is Ghosh’s neighbour. “He’s a fine performer of this trick, which you don’t see very often; it is generally saved up for special festivals and celebrations,” Ghosh says. “The liquid in the air is kerosene [paraffin], which is spat upwards through a lit matchstick to create these cloudy flames. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago YouTube turns 20: Incredible earnings from most iconic videos cemented in British culture

It’s hard to believe there was once life before YouTube. As the global video sharing platform celebrates its 20th birthday, the Mirror takes a look back at 20 of the most popular clips to cement their place in British culture

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24 h. ago Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for pickled new potatoes with curd rice

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25 h. ago Gangnam Style to Baby Shark: YouTube’s 20 greatest viral hits

After two decades of video sensations, here’s a reminder of the streaming platform’s most unforgettable clips – year by yearFrom weird elephant videos to revolutionising TV: 20 years of YouTubeYouTube is 20 years old. Although video had existed online before, YouTube’s ease of use – for the first time sites could easily embed video into their content – made it revolutionary. As such, we now live in a world where people watch more YouTube than anything else. But how did we get here? Perhaps the best way to find out is to trace the most significant videos produced in each of its 20 years. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago 'I ate at the Royal Nawaab at Stockport Pyramid and it was a bit of a manic experience'

The new Indian restaurant at the Stockport Pyramid has opened to the public as part of a 'soft opening'

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26 h. ago Why everyone is suddenly eating cottage cheese – and the truth about whether it’s good for your health

Cottage cheese has been rebranded as the magical wellness curd of the moment, with fitness influencers turning it into everything from crisps to pizza bases and desserts. Ellie Muir finds out what’s driving the craze and whether it’s actually good for you

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32 h. ago Maryland dad Abrego Garcia moved out of brutal El Salvador jail but remains behind bars, says senator who met with him

Maryland senator blasts Bukele for staging fake ‘margarita’ scene as he rallies for mistakenly deported man’s return

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37 h. ago Judge approves Harvey Weinstein’s request to sleep at hospital during retrial

Ex-media boss moved from Rikers Island jail to Manhattan hospital as he awaits rape and sexual assault retrialHarvey Weinstein has been moved to a New York City hospital after a judge approved the ailing ex-studio boss’s request to stay there rather than in jail when he is not in court for his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges.The judge, Paul Goetz, late on Thursday ordered that Weinstein, 73, be immediately relocated from the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex to the prison ward at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan so he can receive necessary medical treatment. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Jake Paul’s next boxing opponent confirmed as former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr

YouTube star Paul last boxed in November, beating heavyweight legend Mike Tyson, 58, on points

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39 h. ago Harvey Weinstein will be allowed to stay in hospital and not jail as he faces sex

A New York judge said not transferring Weinstein could put him at risk of other ‘serious medical conditions, and possibly death’

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