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All hail Mickey D's. Your incredibly delicious and amazingly-priced menu items have been the saviour of many a ruined night out, and a "forgot my brown bag at home" lunch hour. Even if you don't worship food from the Golden Arches, you can at least respect the success of the…
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Honestly, is there a more likeable and photogenic couple than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle? Literally, in every photo taken of them - even by the paps - they look completely natural and comfortable with one another. While the Royals can sometimes seem like a stiff, straight-faced and hardened family,…
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Canadian rapper and songwriter Drake has addressed criticism of a photoshoot which surfaced on social media, in which he appears in blackface. Drake has clarified that the photoshoot was part of a past project aimed at highlighting the frustration experienced by black actors in the entertainment industry, and did not…
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Take a walk through any busy part of a city centre the world over, and there's a good chance you'll come across a homeless person either huddled under a doorway, or out on the street asking for spare change. It's a sad part of modern life that through one misfortune…
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Since last October, Harvey Weinstein has been accused by over 80 women of sexual misconduct. As the victims shared their stories, more and more women felt compelled to come forward, sparking national outrage about sexual abuse. The waves of allegations created the #MeToo movement, which aims to end sexual harassment…
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Screening for colorectal cancer should begin five years earlier, at the age of 45 and not 50, experts at the American Cancer Society claim. Dr Richard Wender, chief cancer control officer of the ACS, cited a recently-published study to back up these claims, highlighting a significant increase in fatalities as a…
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Kim Kardashian met with Donald Trump on Wednesday to request a pardon for a 62-year-old great-grandmother who is serving life in prison. The reality TV star and her attorney, Shawn Holley, spoke with the president about the pardon of low-level drug offender Alice Marie Johnson, who has served more than 20 years…
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TV star Roseanne Barr has taken to Twitter to launch a fresh tirade after she was fired from her sitcom for posting a racist tweet about a former Obama White House senior advisor. The comedienne's show was cancelled by ABC after she claimed online that Valerie Jarrett was the child…
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Televangelist Jesse Duplantis has asked his followers for charitable donations to help finance a $54 million personal jet for travel purposes - a request that many have criticised as excessively materialistic. Duplantis has stated that the Falcon 7X will give him the means to spread the word of God more…
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Yesterday, ABC decided to cancel Roseanne Barr's show after the actress posted racist content on her Twitter account. The problematic content in question was a tweet she posted about Valerie Jarrett, a Senior Advisor to former U.S. president Barack Obama. The tweet was immediately pulled up as being discriminatory towards Jarrett's race, as she…
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In a society so often plagued with terrible news of misfortune and tragedy, it was refreshing to start this week with a story about a selfless hero who risked his own safety in order to save a child's life. Mamoudou Gassama, a 22-year-old originally from Mali, raced up the outside of…
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Honestly, this is a sentence that I never thought that I would read or write in my life: Kim Kardashian is set to visit the White House and discuss prison reform with US President Donald Trump. Yes, it seems like America cannot get enough of TV personalities meddling in politics.…
