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Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood and British-born Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo have been named joint winners of the the 2019 Booker Prize. Margaret Atwood has won the 2019 Booker prize.Credit:AP Atwood won for her novel The Testaments, a follow up to her 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. While Evaristo won for her book […]
AT least 26 people have died and more than 175 left injured after Typhoon Hagibis battered Japan with the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years. More than seven million people were evacuated and 18 people are still missing after the 140mph storm made landfall yesterday – sparking landslides and floods. Public broadcaster NHK reports […]
Doctors saved a baby boy born with three legs, two penises and no anus after his mum refused to have an abortion. An emergency operation was carried out in Russia after the baby, who is believed to have been a twin, didn’t fully develop in his mother’s womb. The additional leg was spotted when the […]
A MUM-of-one has told how she almost lost her leg after being bitten by a mystery critter during a girls' holiday to Benidorm. Faye Wilkes, 41, from Dartford, Kent, was sunbathing by the hotel pool with her sister Carrie, 43, when she felt a bug bite her left foot. She swiftly batted the pest away […]
NANNY state plans to ban all food and drink on trains and buses have been blasted. Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies also wants to axe football match pies, and have plain packaging for biscuits, to try to tackle the nation’s fat epidemic. Critics said the proposals were “the return to rationing in peacetime”. […]
Four men who are believed to be homeless have been brutally attacked and killed in a New York City rampage. New York Police Department Detective Annette Shelton said that a fifth man was in a critical condition on Saturday after also being struck with a metal object. The attack happened in Manhattan's Chinatown neighbourhood. Police […]
London: Australia and Britain have formed a Space Bridge amid warnings the final frontier needs global regulations to guide companies and militaries in increasingly congested orbits. The bridge is a formal agreement backed by each countries' trade and foreign departments that will allow Australian and British companies to collaborate to drive new developments and companies […]
TOWIE'S Chloe Sims and Demi Sims look unrecognisable in old photos – years before their Essex makeovers. Reality star Demi shared the old snaps on her Instagram page including sister Frankie and there's no denying how different they all look. The Only Way Is Essex star Demi, 22, shared the pictures on social media and […]
Rock ‘n’ roll! Group send a boulder tumbling off a Norwegian cliff to see what happens The seven-strong gang wedged timber blocks under the rock in remote Norway One of the men scream out in victory as the stone rolls and races towards the sea On its journey it speeds past a picturesque house as […]
Princess Beatrice and fiancé Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi had a night out in London yesterday, nearly a week after they announced their royal engagement. The lovebirds were seen holding hands on the sidewalk as they attended a launch party for the upcoming book, The Dior Sessions. Beatrice dressed up in a shimmery, dark green midi dress […]