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We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis

We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods; lift weights, get outside, learn a language. Cosmetics – or surgery – have never been so available, so advanced, nor so widely used; we take for granted medical procedures that previous ages would have considered miracles. And something’s clearly working: average global life expectancy is the highest in recorded history. The fastest growing demographic is now the over-80s.

There is much public hand-wringing about the burdens this ageing population will place on health and care systems, and on younger people. But what is far less talked about, argues the clinical psychologist Frank Tallis in his new book, Wise, is how to get older well: not just in physical, but in mental good health.

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Harry Styles is highest-contributing celebrity and Erling Haaland the youngest entry in Sunday Times tax list

Tim Martin, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, Erling Haaland and Mo Salah are among the UK’s 100 biggest taxpayers, according to new rankings.

The billionaire brothers behind the gambling firm Betfred topped the Sunday Times 2026 tax List. Fred and Peter Done paid £400.1m in tax, about half of which relates to gambling duty from their betting shop empire.

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However Melania fell substantially short of turning a profit because it cost $40m to make and $35m to promote

Amazon’s Melania Trump documentary has reportedly beaten box office expectations and recorded the strongest start of any documentary in over a decade, taking more than $8m at the US box office during its lavishly-promoted opening weekend. Simultaneously, though, Melania fell substantially short of turning a profit because it cost $40m to make and $35m to promote.

And Amazon – which recently cut 16,000 corporate jobs – has been hit with criticism that making the documentary about the first lady, and paying so highly for it, was little more than a ploy to curry favor with her husband, Donald Trump, during his second presidency.

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Pep has formed part of a football dynasty at the Etihad, of course. Take the current women’s team, managed by Andrée Jeglertz, who are marching towards the WSL title, currently hammering perennial champions Chelsea.

Here’s live coverage of the latter stages of that one.

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Het openlijke geweld van de Amerikaanse vreemdelingenpolitie ICE roept de vraag op: welke behandeling krijgen gedetineerde migranten buiten het zicht van het Amerikaanse publiek? „Ze halen mensen weg van alles wat ze kennen, opdat ze tekenen voor zelfdeportatie.”

Ook de verliezend finalist Novak Djokovic (38) toonde na afloop zijn respect voor de 22-jarige Carlos Alcaraz, die in vier sets de finale won. „Wat jij aan het doen bent, is het best te beschrijven als historisch en legendarisch.”

DNIPRO (ANP/RTR) - Oekraïense regionale autoriteiten hebben gemeld dat een bedrijfsbus ten oosten van de stad Dnipro is getroffen door een Russische drone die vlak bij het voertuig insloeg. Daardoor zouden twaalf doden en zeven gewonden zijn gevallen.

Het incident zou bij Pavlograd zijn gebeurd, dat circa 60 kilometer van Dnipro verwijderd ligt. Het is niet duidelijk wat de drone, naast de bus, precies heeft getroffen.

Een man heeft zondagmiddag met een hakbijl ingeslagen op een ambulance aan de Loevesteinsingel in Rotterdam-IJsselmonde. Het ambulancepersoneel is hierbij niet gewond geraakt.