International
From Pong to GTA VI: Play your way through 50 years of video games
Video games are now a $200bn business. Play through the six games that tell the story of how they got there.
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Science
Art trail celebrates arrival of black bears at zoo
Jersey Zoo says the art trail will celebrate the world's "largest inhabitants to its smallest.
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Health
Free Sad lamps given out as disorder 'makes it hard to do anything on darker days'
Seasonal Affective Disorder can affect mood, energy and sleep during the winter months.
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Health
I saved a stranger's life and my husband's at the same time
Una Brown had always said she would give a kidney to her husband Sean if the time came, and she did so in a roundabout way.
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Military
'Summer was a wake-up call, winter could be dire' warning over food supplies
Wales needs to grow more fruit and veg or it will be at the mercy of wars and climate change, one expert says.
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Entertainment
‘You can almost smell the sweat’: striptease artists and steel pans light up this week’s free art shows
Four free exhibitions take you from a luxury white enclave in Rio de Janeiro to exhausted erotic dancers touring the US and a culture-changing London address ★★★★☆ Continue reading...
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Entertainment
‘I trusted a lot of people, and the wrong people, and I shouldn’t have’: Charlotte Kirk on navigating Hollywood
The British actor took up writing and producing to have control over what she stars in after a scandal involving some of the most powerful men in the film business After a recent run as an assassin, a serial killer and a gangster, Charlotte Kirk was looking for something a little lighter, and surely nothing can be more jolly, more wholesome than a Christmas romcom. In Christmas & Chaos, Kirk plays Sadie, a pop star in search of a hit – or, to be more precise, three hits for a new musical by an impresario (a comedic Jason Isaacs who only appears on screen via video call). She has just a couple
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Military
‘All-out war’: UK sports fear an uncertain future after new body created
Creation of Sport Org sparks disquiet at governing bodies Smaller sports concerned they might be taken over The leaders of Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic sports have been responsible for some of the country’s greatest successes over the past two decades. But there are changes afoot that are increasingly ruffling feathers and stoking fears. Most people will not have heard of Sport Org, the organisation recently set up by UK Sport. Essentially, it evolved out of British Curling, and now uses its leaders and expertise across curling, para-curling, para table tennis, squash and, from 2030, bobsl
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Business
Years of onscreen jokes suggest Walliams’ reputation was ‘in plain sight’ within industry, insider says
References raise questions over whether claims about bankable stars have been ignored by entertainment industry The comedy sketch opens in a doctor’s office, with a trouserless David Walliams apparently being treated for a fictional sexually transmitted disease. The doctor tells him it is bad news and he needs to contact “everyone you’ve been intimate with over the last year”. The camera closes in on the comedian’s shocked expression before he gasps: “Everyone?” Continue reading...
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Crypto
Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
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Crypto
South Korea to permit crypto withdrawal freezes during hacking threats
The move follows recent security incidents involving South Korean crypto exchanges, including GOPAX’s precautionary suspension of services and a $70,000 hot-wallet breach at Prabang.
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International
Fake bomb threats sent to thousands of schools in Europe, including Italy and Scotland
On the 11th, there was an incident in Italy where bomb threats were sent to approximately 6,300 public schools all at once. More than 700 schools in Scotland and Ireland also received bomb threats. The threat is believed to be fake, but some schools evacuated.
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