Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock Social media has long been a place for makeup enthusiasts and beauty gurus to discuss trends, but that’s not why TikTok users are currently talking about mascara. Young people are using “mascara” as a code word for talking about sex, relationships and assault. Posts tagged with #mascaratrend generally featureContinue Reading
Maksim Safaniuk The new BBC podcast, Buried, by investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, is a compelling look at how criminals are infiltrating the UK waste disposal system. It opens with a tape recording by a trucker, on his deathbed. He tells the story of one of the worstContinue Reading
Review at a glance F ormed in their teens and now in their 30s, it looks like all is finally well in the notoriously volatile world of Tennessee guitar pop band Paramore. This is their sixth album and the first to be recorded with the same line-up as the oneContinue Reading
It’s the middle of the night and you are fast asleep. Suddenly you have ceiling plaster smashing down on you, pictures are falling off the walls and your bedroom is swaying. You wake your partner, grab the kids and make your way down a stairwell in the darkness as youContinue Reading
Members of the Trickbot and Conti cybercrime gangs have been sanctioned in an unprecedented wave of action against the country’s hackers.Continue Reading
As the first United Nations aid convoy made it across the Turkish border into Syria, the regional death toll from the earthquakes four days earlier climbed steadily past 19,000. And it looks set to rise higher still. Quite a lot of these will be new deaths, caused by aftershocks andContinue Reading
MICHAEL CHANDLER has warned Conor McGregor he’ll get “smacked” if he uses his family for trash talk ahead of their showdown. The three-time Bellator lightweight champion will welcome McGregor back to the octagon later this year after they coach season 31 of the Ultimate Fighter. 4 Michael Chandler will welcomeContinue Reading
LEICESTER won the FA Cup for the first time in their history in 2021 but the club’s fortunes have steadily declined since that impressive achievement. The Foxes finished outside of the European places last season and they’re on track for a bottom-half finish this term having lost 12 of theirContinue Reading
Some pet owners are facing heartbreaking choices due to rising prices. Budimir Jevtic/Shutterstock For anyone with a pet, you’ll know how much happiness they can bring to your life. Pets are part of the family – which is why, as someone who shares their life with a companion animal, it’sContinue Reading
Former Fianna Fáil junior minister Conor Lenihan has described the return of Bertie Ahern as “a very welcome thing”. “I think, in particular, his skills of organisation, which ultimately, when I was elected in 1997, won us three successive general elections, will also be a huge plus for the partyContinue Reading
