6 hours ago Maryland man disrupts two Christmas Eve masses, pouring whiskey in holy water and hurling tangerines

Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, 56, was arrested and charged with multiple offenses following a sacrilegious rampage on Tuesday

Politics

11 hours ago Moment Brazilian lawmaker is assassinated while talking to family outside his home

Gunmen executed Brazilian councilman Marcos Araújo, 58, and wounded his mother-in-law, Marina Maia, 75, in an attack in the northeastern city of Tabuleiro do Norte on Thursday.

Society

8 hours ago US to send $1.25 billion in weapons to Ukraine, in push to get aid out before leaving office

U.S. officials say the United States is expected to announce it will send another $1.25 billion in military assistance to Ukraine

Economics

15 hours ago Gavin and Stacey fans livid as they spot huge 'blunder' in final episode

Gavin and Stacey officially bowed out after a thrilling final episode, but some eagle-eyed viewers were less than thrilled when they spotted a bizarre plot hole in the story

Sport

56 minutes ago Indonesia receives official request from France to transfer death row prisoner Serge Atlaoui

Minister says request regarding welder arrested in 2005 on drugs charges will be discussed in January amid spate of transfer of high-profile detaineesIndonesia has received an official request from France to transfer a French death row inmate imprisoned on drugs charges since 2005, a senior Indonesian minister said on Saturday.“We have received a formal letter requesting the transfer of Serge Atlaoui on 19 December 2024. The letter was sent on behalf of the French minister of justice,” senior Indonesian law and human rights minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra told Agence France-Presse. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago Fears Scotland's NHS 'on brink of collapse' as flu hospital cases surge

Flu cases have soared in Scotland as health officials warn the public to stay away from A&E unless necessary.

Science

6 hours ago Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'staying strong' despite Christmas 'meltdown' as he pleaded with guards

Sean 'Diddy' Combs is said to have had a meltdown over the Christmas period as he struggled to believe he was spending the holidays in prison – but sources have disputed this

Politics

9 hours ago Iran arrests Italian journalist and throws her 'in solitary confinement' after she 'released podcast about woman who rejected conservative values'

Cecilia Sala, 29, who works for Il Foglio newspaper and podcast company Chora Media has been under arrest for the past week after she was detained by police in Tehran on December 19.

Economics

2 hours ago Houthi fighters fire missile at Israel airport hours after country's forces targeted runway in Yemen

The rebel group responded to Thursday's strikes in Sanaa by hitting Ben Gurion Airport - which is only ten miles away from Tel Aviv, after Israeli missils struck Sanaa airport on Thursday.

Events

8 hours ago US Senate report finds CIA mishandled employee cases of Havana syndrome

Workers who reported symptoms of the illness often faced delayed or denied care and struggled to access benefitsA newly declassified US Senate report found that the CIA’s handling of mysterious health incidents known as Havana syndrome has been flawed and marred by inconsistent medical care, delayed compensation and communication failures – all while foreign adversaries remain “very unlikely” to be responsible.Many cases of the syndrome have been reported, mostly among US officials posted abroad, and the phenomenon has led to theories they had been targeted by a hitherto unknown weapon using directed energy of some sort wielded by a hostile power. Continue reading...

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18 hours ago Sales mayhem as thousands queue to snap up Boxing Day bargains at Bicester Village

Frenzied scenes erupted across Bicester Village, in Oxfordshire, as hordes of shoppers joined huge queues to snap up some of the site's biggest discounts ever.

Economics

2 hours ago Thousands of animals are blown up, poisoned or given deadly nerve agent during 'barbaric' tests at top secret military laboratory

More than 2,000 pigs, rabbits, monkeys, guinea pigs and mice have been killed in 'barbaric' experiments at the secretive Porton Down research base in Wiltshire.

Events

9 hours ago Tennessee has a new execution method, 2.5 years after last scheduled execution abruptly halted

More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith, the state has announced a new lethal injection method

Politics

19 hours ago Liverpool star Luis Diaz's father hospitalised in Colombia 12 months after kidnap ordeal

Luis Diaz's father was kidnapped by Colombian rebels and held for 12 days before his release last year, with the 58-year-old now being hospitalised with chest pains

Economics

2 hours ago More than a million children are at risk from rundown schools 'collapsing on top of them' as they study

A new Guardian investigation found that thousands of public sector buildings, including schools, hospitals and courts, are in desperate need of repair.

Events

14 hours ago Israeli troops burn north Gaza hospital after forcibly removing staff and patients, officials say

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli troops have stormed one of the last hospitals operating in the northernmost part of the territory, forcing many of the staff and patients out of the facility

Politics

3 hours ago Over 70 assaults taking place in jails each day as prison violence increases by 28 per cent from previous year

Research commissioned by the Liberal Democrats, showed there were 26,912 assaults recorded in jails in England and Wales in 2023, an average of 74 a day.

Events

15 hours ago Emily Willis' life before vegetative coma with her 26th birthday just days away

Emily Willis was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) Hall of Fame in April 2022, but just months later she was admitted to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest

Politics

3 hours ago Man dies after Sydney arrest for allegedly attempting to enter vehicles armed with knife

Critical incident team from Bankstown Police Area Command to investigate circumstances surrounding 33-year-old’s deathGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA man has died after he was arrested while allegedly attempting to enter vehicles armed with a knife in the middle of Sydney traffic.Police declared a critical incident after officers responded to reports of a man trying to stop traffic and enter vehicles on Remembrance Driveway at Tahmoor in Sydney’s south-west at about 1pm on Friday.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Events

16 hours ago Prince William's hilarious jibe about Prince Louis delights royal well

The Prince of Wales, 42, officially stepped into father mode as he greeted friendly well wishers following Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church on the Norfolk estate.

Politics

4 hours ago Horrific bodycam footage shows New York prison guards beating inmate Robert Brooks to death as he's restrained

Robert Brooks, 43, was pronounced dead on December 10, the morning after the savage assault at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County.

Events

16 hours ago ‘Everyone is crazy about tennis’: Sinner’s success inspires Italy to pick up rackets

Italians are taking to the court with factors including the pandemic and broadcasting also said to be fuelling enthusiasmAt the age of 47, diehard AC Milan fan Ninni Licata has hung up his football boots in exchange for a tennis racket.Like thousands of Italians in recent years, Licata has been unable to resist the lure of a game that for years had been relegated to the sidelines of the country’s national sports, overshadowed by football and Formula One. Continue reading...

Politics

4 hours ago Russian air defence may have downed Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that killed 38 people, US officials say

Russia has downplayed speculation that its military was behind the Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan

Events

17 hours ago Duo in their 40s suspected of raping teenage man near Brighton Harry Ramsden's

Sussex Police has confirmed the arrest of two men aged 40 and 42 in connection to the rape of a 19-year-old near a Brighton fish and chip shop last Saturday, December 21

Politics

5 hours ago ‘Shocking’ bodycam footage captures prison staff beating inmate shortly before his death

In the video, shown by New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday, officers can be seen surrounding Robert Brooks who is restrained

Events

20 hours ago Former Pentagon official lifts lid on UFO encounter amid curious 'drone' theories

Following a wave of sightings of drones lighting up the nights' skies across the US lately, speculation has grown residents are being watched by extra-terrestrial beings in UFOs

Politics

6 hours ago At least 1,000 North Korean troops killed or wounded fighting for Russia, US says

Russia is treating North Korean troops as ‘expendable’ in fight over Kursk region, officials say

Events

20 hours ago Meet the Party Jean – the answer to your New Year’s Eve prayers | Jess Cartner

If you can’t be bothered with an LBD, opt for a classic that’s casual but shouts party pizzazzThere is a moment about halfway through Christmas dinner when the cracker hats have slipped askew, shoes been kicked off under the table and belts un-notched, that marks the official end of the season of Making An Effort. A frenzied month of putting on mascara in the work loos and shivering on the way home because you are wearing your fancy coat instead of your warm one is over, up in flames along with the Christmas pudding brandy. Time to breathe out, shift into a lower gear, adjust to the sacred interlude of cheese and telly, half-eaten chocolate reindeers and gap-toothed jigsaws that is Twixmas.So it can feel a little tricky, a few days later, to go full jazz-hands for New Year’s Eve. But that’s what we are doing. Continue reading...

Politics

7 hours ago New York correctional officers pummeled handcuffed prisoner before death, footage shows

Newly released body-camera footage shows that a man fatally beaten in a New York prison this month was repeatedly pummeled by correctional officers while in handcuffs

Events

22 hours ago Rangers have no answers after week of asking the questions as this time mistakes are all theirs

Ibrox club were quick to pounce on SFA officials but it was Butland Sterling at fault in St Mirren collapse

Politics

7 hours ago Yemenis stand in solidarity with Palestinians after Israeli strikes on Houthi targets

Earlier today (27 December) hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Yemen’s northwestern city of Sa’ada to demonstrate support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Events

23 hours ago ‘It’s full of things that didn’t happen – but it feels right!’ Inside the making of Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown

Starring an Oscar-tipped Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold’s biopic retells Dylan’s electric early career, but it resonates with today’s toxic fame and politics. The creative team explain their process – and what Dylan makes of itBob Dylan is notoriously averse to others poking around in his past – he once suggested the legions of self-styled “Dylanologists” who examine his career in forensic detail should “get a life, please you’re wasting your life”. So when he summoned the director James Mangold to meet him and discuss the Dylan biopic Mangold was making, it had the potential to go badly.The film, A Complete Unknown, was already well under way. A script based on the folk musician and writer Elijah Wald’s acclaimed 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! had been written by Jay Cocks, best known as the screenwriter of Gangs of New York. Timothée Chalamet was slated to star as Dylan: perfect for the role, Mangold suggests, because “he’s thin and wiry and mercurial and super smart and restles...

Politics

8 hours ago Diddy's huge prison 'meltdown' revealed, as 'sex trafficker' rapper remains in hellhole jail

Diddy was arrested and indicted for sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.

Events

28 hours ago Official says NIO should have offered Rosemary Nelson protection ‘in hindsight’

Mrs Nelson was killed by a loyalist car bomb outside her home in Lurgan, Co Armagh in March 1999.

Politics

9 hours ago London Drug Dealer Sentenced to Prison After This Stupid Mistake Connected Him Back to the Crime

London Drug Dealer Sentenced to Prison After This Stupid Mistake Connected Him Back to the Crime  The Root

Events

9 hours ago Lord...This Drug Dealer Sentenced to Prison After Doing the Stupidest Thing Ever

Lord...This Drug Dealer Sentenced to Prison After Doing the Stupidest Thing Ever  The Root

Events

10 hours ago A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says

A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans

Events

11 hours ago Queen Victoria's scathing attack over 'heinous' Jack the Ripper crimes revealed

Queen Victoria unleashed hell in a recently uncovered telegram against her Prime Minister who failed to catch notorious murderer Jack the Ripper

Events

12 hours ago Drug lord 'Mr Big' begs 'love of his life' Thai dancer to marry him in prison

Brit drug lord Jon Moorby was locked up for 29 years in 2020 for his part in a gang that helicoptered tonnes of cocaine into the UK, but is now desperate to marry his Thai girlfriend

Events

13 hours ago Azerbaijan Airlines blames 'external interference' for Christmas Day plane crash that killed 38

Officials have said more than three dozen people died from the crash, which saw the plane tear in half as it hit the ground in Kazakhstan while en route to Russia

Events

13 hours ago Azerbaijan Airlines reveals cause of horror plane crash that killed 38 on Christmas Day

Officials have said more than three dozen people died in the crash, which saw the plane tear in half as it hit the ground in Kazakhstan while en route to Russia

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