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Dec 27
The cafe helping prisoners escape a life of crime

Former prisoner Lee Jack says the cafe he worked at while on day release helped to…

Dec 27
‘Dating for homes saved me £20,000 on holidays’

Home exchanges give travellers the chance to experience someone else’s way of…

Dec 27
US faces deadly surf conditions and tornadoes during holidays

Winter winds brought deadly surf conditions to western states and tornadoes to Texas…

Dec 27
Machine guns and pistols among firearms lost by MoD

More than 700 phones, laptops and USB sticks were also lost or stolen over the past…

Dec 27
Call the Midwife creator: ‘People tell me birth stories in the supermarket’

Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas on how fans accost her in public to tell her…

Dec 27
Elon Musk’s ‘social experiment on humanity’: How X evolved in 2024

New users? New algorithms? Or something else going on behind the scenes? The story…

Dec 26
Head of WHO at Yemen airport during Israeli air strikes

Israel claimed responsibility for the strikes, saying it had targeted Houthi…

Dec 26
Two die in Sydney to Hobart yacht race

The two crew members died in separate incidents, both after being hit by a…

Dec 26
Manmohan Singh, Indian ex-PM and architect of economic reform, dies at 92

Manmohan Singh was instrumental in bringing India out of economic and nuclear isolation.

Dec 26
Finland investigates Russia ‘shadow fleet’ ship after cable damage

Finland is investigating a tanker following the rupture of a transmission cable in the…

Dec 26
Watch: Hundreds run into sea at Boxing Day dips

Aerial footage captures the moment hardy swimmers take the plunge as part of the…

Dec 26
Reform UK has more members than Tories, Farage says

Reform UK leader Farage says his party has made history and is now the “real…

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