The artist born Abby-Lynn Keen is preparing to release her excellent new album, ‘Paracosm’, and head out on an arena tour with her big sister RAYE. She speaks with Roisin O’Connor about finding freedom through her imagination, learning to love again, and being a boss when she needs to

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Robbie Williams says his 13-year-old daughter Teddy is “desperate to be famous”, as the singer opened up about fatherhood and fame.

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Heavy snow fell across the country this week with more expected soon

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Series is still scheduled to begin on Monday 12 January

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Protests challenging Iran’s theocracy have reached the two-week mark, with demonstrators flooding the streets in Tehran and Mashhad

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The attacks were part of an operation launched last month

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Attack killed at least four, wounded more than 20, and left nearly 6,000 apartment buildings without heating

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Officials say a Ukrainian drone strike has killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh

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Blazes in the state of Victoria have destroyed hundreds of structures, including homes, and killed one person, the authorities said.

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Rights groups say at least 116 people have been killed since protests erupted in Iran

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Renee Nicole Good of ‘domestic terrorism’ just hours after she was killed by an ICE agent

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The move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app

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The Man Who Pays His Way: Tourism can help rebuild the beleaguered nation

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As women are constantly told how hard it is to maintain strong friendships in their 30s, Olivia Petter examines how we might have been sold a lie

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Special rapporteur working with UN human rights office says elections are neither free nor fair

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Greenland’s harsh environment, lack of key infrastructure and difficult geology have prevented anyone from building a mine to extract the sought-after rare earth elements that many high-tech products require

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Many of the 8 million Venezuelans scattered across the Americas received the news of their president's capture with caution

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The Golden Globes bill themselves as Hollywood’s booziest bash

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Myanmar has resumed voting in the second round of its first general election in five years, expanding polling to additional townships, including some areas affected by the current civil war between the military government and its armed opponents

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A rarely used reserve much of the season, the 6-foot-4 sharpshooter from Greece has received double-digit minutes in three consecutive games, highlighted by his career-best performance Saturday in the Johnnies’ 90-73 rout of Creighton.

The Mets infielder nearly matched his entire career stat line in a single game.

A major cruise line is officially going adults-only, joining a growing group of brands betting that travelers are seeking tranquility over kid-friendly activities.

Resignations follow withdrawal of more than 70 participants in writers’ week after Palestinian Australian author disinvited

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The Adelaide festival is facing an unprecedented leadership crisis after three board members resigned this weekend.

The journalist Daniela Ritorto, the Adelaide businesswoman Donny Walford and the lawyer Nick Linke have stepped down since the board’s controversial decision to dump the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the 2026 writers’ week program.

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"This is 51!" the Great American Family star wrote on her Instagram last weekend while wearing a red flannel shirt, cross necklace and her wavy hair down.