‘So, you lied.’ The accusation from my therapist rendered me speechless. I hadn’t lied! As I’d just explained, all I’d done was tell a friend I wasn’t upset with her for cancelling on me when, secretly, I was. But that didn’t make me a liar. I was just… tweaking the truth so I wouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Everybody does that.
‘That is lying,’ he said, a bit more gently. ‘It’s dishonesty. You’re denying that person the truth — and yourself.’
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Whether it’s Casualty, Holby City or Grey’s Anatomy, fast-paced hospital dramas have us on the edge of our seats.
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Chilling video shows the moment top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh hears for the first time that his three sons and ‘several’ grandchildren have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
A voice can be heard delivering the news to the group’s top political leader during a visit to injured Palestinians, saying: ‘Hazem, Mohammed and Amir have been killed, along with their children.’
Haniyeh barely flinches as he hears the information, and remains composed as he nods and takes
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Beverley Turner is behaving as though she has discovered an entire new species. Maybe she has. Incredulously, the TV presenter says: ‘I mean, this is a man who tidies hotel rooms! He makes the bed and folds the towels and puts things in the bin and leaves it all neat for the cleaners.
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After six months of waiting, hoping, worrying, the email finally arrived. I took several deep breaths to calm my racing heart before clicking on the attachment. Scanning through the opening paragraphs of HR jargon, I reached a paragraph bluntly entitled: ‘Rape’.
It read: ‘Despite trying, [we were] unable to speak to the alleged perpetrator.’ There were a few further lines noting that my experiences must have been ‘difficult’ and that I was ‘brave’ for taking part in the investigation.
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The chance to pitch your business to potential investors in Dragons’ Den sounds like a dream to many entrepreneurs and you might imagine battling thousands of other hopefuls for a change to appear on the show.
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Americans have plenty of negative opinions about artificial intelligence – but has anyone ever stopped to think: ‘What do the machines think about Americans?’
Polls show that a majority worry advanced AI will become a ‘threat to the human race’ (57 percent), half consider self-driving cars dangerous, and more than half (54 per cent) believe AI will play a role in America’s decline over the coming decades.
The feeling might be mutual — judging by the responses that ChatGPT and
What’s not to love about Italy? It’s a country that I (and my tastebuds) could never tire of. Having visited the Northern lakes and fallen in love with Rome, I’ve become obsessed with the Italian way of life. The cuisine, the elegant fashion and Italian lifestyle philosophies are admired around the world. Who doesn’t want to embrace a little Italian know-how in to their lifestyle?
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