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LYING to you children could turn them into fibbers, a study shows. If your child knows they’re being lied to — even a white lie — they’re more likely to tell porkies themselves, Singaporean researchers found. 1Happy young Caucasian mother and teen daughter sit relax on sofa talking sharing secrets. Smiling mom or nanny and teenage girl child rest on couch speak enjoy family weekend bonding at home.Credit: Getty They tracked behaviour in 564 children aged 11 to 12 to see how their relationship with the truth differed depending on their parents. Dr Setoh Pei Pei, of Nanyang Technological University,…

AT LEAST 11 people have been killed and a further 80 injured after a massive explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. The terrifying incident took place at the Harda district factory in India’s Madhya Pradesh state on Tuesday as towers of flames engulfed the building. 7The blast was felt ten miles away from the scene of the explosionCredit: Tahir Ibn Manzoor 7Giant flames engulfed the surrounding area of the illegal fireworks factory 7Footage showed terrified locals running for their lives following the explosion Eyewitnesses reported that several individuals remain trapped within the firecracker facility following the blast with the blaze…

GOOGLE users have been left devastated after the tech giants announced they are shutting down a major search button. The beloved tool was one of the oldest features on Google before bosses made the “sad” decision to axe it all together. 1Google are shutting down a major search buttonCredit: Getty The bold move to remove links to page caches from Google search results was met with a number of upset people – with one even saying, “this truly sucks”. Google’s search liaison Danny Sullivan confirmed the disappointing news on X, formerly known as Twitter, after he was asked about the…

A MAN was left fighting for his life in hospital after catching a rare bug from his pet Chihuahua. The 71-year-old from La Gomera in the Canary Islands went to the emergency department after feeling short of breath and coughing up yellowish phlegm for two days. 2Scans showed ‘opacity’ in the 71-year-old’s lungs and doctors diagnosed him with pneumonia and septic shockCredit: www.sciencedirect.com 2Septic shock is a severe form of sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to an infection Prior to that, he’d suffered sudden bouts of diarrhoea, weakness and chills for five days, according to doctors at the Hospital Nuestra Señora…

A BRITISH grandad who faced being thrown into a Dubai jail after being accused of trespass has been released. Ian Mackellar, 75, was arrested while visiting his daughter and young grandchild over Christmas shortly after they had moved there. 2Ian Mackellar has been freed after being arrested in DubaiCredit: SWNS 2He is due to return to Scotland The pensioner, from near Aberdeen, Scotland, was accused of trespass and faced several years in prison and a travel ban. Ian and his wife had flown to Dubai to visit their daughter, who had asked her neighbour to be mindful of noise at their New Year’s Eve…

ROAD safety campaigners have issued warnings over the Apple’s new Vision Pro headsets being used while driving. Apple’s $3,500 (£2,800) Vision Pro hit the shelves on Friday, but have already been the subject of viral videos showing them in scenes Apple has explicitly advised against. 1It is unknown where he was driving or what police department pulled him overCredit: Twitter One video that amassed massive viewer numbers over the weekend shows a man, called Dante, using the virtual reality (VR) goggles while driving on a motorway. In the video, the man’s eyes are completely covered by the headset while driving…

THREE women are known to have died and two more diagnosed with deadly cervical cancer after NHS blunders meant thousands weren’t invited for life-saving smear tests. It’s now emerged that up to 150,000 women may have have been wrongly excluded from the cervical cancer screening programme. 1Cervical cancer is a cancer that’s found anywhere in the cervix, which is the opening between the vagina and womb The NHS sends letter invites for cervix health checks to people aged 25 to 64 to identify any changes that could develop into cancer. A coding error dating back nearly 30 years to 1997…

A RUSSIAN colonel has been shot in the head by his own side as he was gunned down by troops working for one of Putin’s warlords. Lieutenant Colonel Albert Atmurzaev, 39, was killed by national guards loyal to close Vladimir Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov, the warlord leader of Chechnya, according to reports. 1Lieutenant Colonel Albert Atmurzaev was killed by Russian soldiers The shooting was in Grozny, capital of Chechnya, where Kadyrov is reported to be gathering a vast “private army” ostensibly for use supporting the dictator in the war in Ukraine.  Reports say that Atmurzaev – a Russian interior ministry…

BRITS have been warned they have until the end of next week to claim a free TV box replacement voucher after major changes saw more than a dozen channels disappear. The BBC and ITV shutdown their remaining standard definition (SD) channels on satellite at the beginning on January. 1Viewers were left with a warning like this until screens went blank on January 8Credit: X / Twitter It’s all part of a huge plan to upgrade stations so they’re in modern high definition (HD) instead. However, this meant that anyone with an older box may have lost access to several channels…

A MUM who was called “paranoid” and brushed off by doctors now faces an agonising wait to see if her little girl’s tumour is deadly. Clare Maw, 42, said it took a year of going “backwards and forwards” visiting GPs until anyone looked into her daughter’s case. 5Evie was healthy before her cancer diagnosisCredit: Jam Press/Clare Maw 5The little girl has been left with potentially life-long disabilities because of her late diagnosis, her mum claimsCredit: Jam Press/Clare Maw Meanwhile, she believed daughter Evie’s health continued to deteriorate, and the once-healthy child was eventually handed a terrifying diagnosis – a brain…