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It’s not just millennials who need lessons on how to be a grown-up

It’s no secret – growing up can be hard to do. That’s why journalist Daisy Buchanan was inspired to write a book that’s part memoir and part self-help for her fellow millennials – but the final product bears a message that transcends its target demographic, making How to Be a Grown-Up a must-read for all ages

My son, my daughter – a mother’s evolution

Isabel Rose, the New York real estate heiress, decided to go public about her child’s gender transition after President Trump rescinded federal protections for transgender students

In defence of the so-called Worst Movie Ever Made

Originally called 'Grave Robbers From Out of Space' and featuring actors reading from scripts on their laps, fake trees and mics lurch into shot, it was a recipe for disaster in the golden age of B-movies. But on the 60th anniversary of its screening, is it really worthy of its title, asks David Barnett 

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Donald Trump's air strikes on Syria could be a 'set piece': analyst

We'll soon find out if the global economy is headed for boom or bust

Russia responsible for Syria chemical attack, Michael Fallon

Richard Dawkins says England is becoming a 'nasty little backwater'

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World news in pictures

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    Paramedics work at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm

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    Reports say three people have died after a truck crashed into an Ahlens department store in Stockholm Truck drives into crowds on a street in central Stockholm

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    The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea

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    The United States military launched at least 50 tomahawk cruise missiles at al-Shayrat military airfield near Homs, Syria, in response to the Syrian military's alleged use of chemical weapons in an airstrike in a rebel held area in Idlib province

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    Demonstrators pray next to mock coffins during a protest against Russian and Iran in Ankara, Turkey

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    People carry symbolic coffins with pictures of Syrian victims and inscriptions which translates as "killer Asad" and "killer Putin" during a protest against Russia for its alleged role in a chemical attack in the Syrian province of Idlib, in front of the Russian embassy, in Ankara

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    A man watches a TV news program reporting about North Korea's missile firing with a file footage, at Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea

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    Filipino villagers collect recyclable materials amongst debris following a fire at a shanty town in Bacoor, Cavite province, Philippines

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    According to media reports, more than a thousand familes were left homeless from the fire, which burned around seven hundred shanties. The fire marshal, Superintendent Robert Pacis, stated that the four-hour fire was likely started by children allegedly playing with matches in the house of a person named Raffy Una

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    Filipino Eddito Fernandez displays his hands that are covered in dirt as he collects belongings amongst debris following a fire at a shanty town in Bacoor, Cavite province, Philippines

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    Israeli forces stand guard at the scene of a Palestinian car ramming attack near the Jewish settlement of Ofra near the West Bank city of Ramallah

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    Israeli soldiers and police arrest a Palestinian attacker at the scene of a car ramming attack near the Israeli settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah

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    One Israeli was killed and another wounded in a car-ramming attack near the Ofra settlement in the occupied West Bank, the army said. The alleged attacker was arrested, an army statement said, without giving details about him

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    Activists of the Basle political action committee 'March against Monsanto and Syngenta' protest in front of the Syngenta headquarters against the acquisition of Syngenta by the Chinese company ChemChina, in Basle, Switzerland

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    Universidad de Chile fans clash with the police during a Copa Sudamericana soccer match against Brazil's Corinthians in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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    Universidad de Chile fans scuffle with riot police during their match agains Corinthians at the Arena Corinthians Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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    Members of the military police of Sao Paulo clash with supporters of Universidad de Chile before the Copa Sudamericana soccer match between Corinthians and Universidad de Chile at the Arena Itaquera Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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    Members of the military police of Sao Paulo clash with supporters of Universidad de Chile before the Copa Sudamericana soccer match between Corinthians and Universidad de Chile at the Arena Itaquera Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil

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    Jose Adan Salazar Umana, a businessman and alleged leader of the Texis Cartel, one of the largest money laundering and drug trafficking networks in El Salvador, is presented at the headquarters of the National Civil Police in San Salvador, El Salvador

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    Nikki Haley, United States' Ambassador United Nations, shows pictures of Syrian victims of chemical attacks as she addresses a meeting of the Security Council on Syria at U.N. headquarters

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    Russia's deputy UN ambassador, Vladimir Safronkov attends the United Nations Security Council meet in an emergency session at the UN in New York, about the suspected deadly chemical attack that killed civilians, including children, in Syria

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    Syrian children, along first aiders and civil defense volunteers, hold placards and photos showing victims of the recent alleged chemical attack Khan Sheikhoun, during a gathering to show solidarity with the victims in Douma, Syria

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    Reports state 72 people, including 20 children, were killed in an alleged chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun of Idlib province

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    Destruction at a hospital room in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack

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    Abdul-Hamid Alyousef, 29, holds his twin babies who were killed during a suspected chemical weapons attack, in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. Alyousef also lost his wife, two brothers, nephews and many other family members in the attack that claimed scores of his relatives

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    Omid, whose surname has not been released, during an interview with the Press Association at a care home in north London. The 54-year-old, who has a non-terminal but incurable illness and is seeking a change in the law on assisted dying, has refused to see his children for more than half a year because he does not want them to witness his deteriorating health

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    Colombian soldiers evacuating victims from the landslide-hit town of Mocoa, Putumayo region, Colombia

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    Colombian soldiers working in the evacuation of victims from the landslide-hit town of Mocoa, Putumayo region, Colombia

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    The death toll from a devastating landslide in the Colombian town of Mocoa stood at around 200 on Sunday as rescuers clawed through piles of muck and debris in search of survivors

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    Members of the Dubai Civil Defence arrive at the scene of a fire which broke out in a construction site near the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and burned for several hours in Dubai

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    Emirati firefighters try to put out a fire which broke out in a construction site near the Dubai Mall and Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and burned for several hours in Dubai

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    People attend the funeral services for Timothy Caughman. Caughman was alone and collecting bottles for recycling last month when he was attacked from behind with a sword. His assailant, James Harris Jackson, took a bus last month to New York to kill black men. Jackson is being held without bail on charges of murder as a hate crime

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    Fidelino Quintana and his wife Felicita, parents of Rodrigo Quintana, who was killed last night by a rubber bullet fired by the police in the headquarters of the Liberal Party after clashes, react during their son's funeral in Asuncion, Paraguay

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    Relatives and friends mourn over the coffin of Rodrigo Quintana, 25, leader of the opposition Liberal Party's youth branch, who was shot dead on the eve during a protest against the approval of a constitutional amendment for presidential re-election, in Asuncion

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    A relative cries as she attends the wake of Rodrigo Quintana, a member of the Authentic Radical Liberal Party who was killed in an incident at party's headquarters away from congress at the party's headquarters on Friday, in Asuncion, Paraguay

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    Smashed windows at the Congress building, set on fire on the eve by demonstrators protesting against the approval of a constitutional amendment for presidential re-election, in Asuncion, Paraguay

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Everything you need to know about Sunderland vs Manchester United

A look ahead to the Premier League fixture at the Stadium of Light

Hameed happy to kick off County Championship season after injury scare

The England batsman will need surgery to take a pin out of his finger later this year

Peyvand Khorsandi Why it doesn't matter who wins the Iranian elections

The British Government has remained disappointingly silent on the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a London mother being held on spurious charges in an Iranian jail. This shows how far our policy of appeasement has gone

Frank Ocean drops tease of new Jay Z collaboration

It's the third episode in the singer's Blonded radio series

Saturday Night Live goes behind-the-scenes on that Pepsi ad

The ad was swiftly pulled after eliciting a combination of rage, bemusement, and laughter

Book review: Mezzogiorno: Recipes from Southern Italy

Journey into southern Italy’s ‘kitchen of the poor’ with Calabrian-born chef Francesco Mazzei, who lifts the lid on pots and pans simmering with delights such as stuffed calamari and aubergine chocolate cake 

Europe's fastest growing airports have one thing in common

Plane Talk: A former US Navy base in Iceland is Europe's fastest-growing airport

Dolce & Gabbana team up with Smeg to unveil bold new kitchenware

Fashion powerhouse Dolce & Gabbana have teamed up with appliance giant Smeg to release a second 'Made in Italy' colourful collection of kitchen gadgets. 

Anne Hathaway on why she regrets posting a photo of her son online

Meet the woman who runs a sex dungeon in east London

The number of Londoners living on boats rises by 60% in five years

One month left to spend your paper fivers, Bank of England warns

New AI app promises to transform all your bad selfies into good ones

One of its tools allows users to instantly mimic the lighting, effects and style of another photo

How to see who is stalking you on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat

LinkedIn is probably the most generous social network of them all for online lurkers

Microsoft reveals new Xbox, most powerful console ever made

Only the specs – which suggest the console will be incredibly powerful – have so far been revealed, alongside a vague release date