31 minutes ago Boy killed in Newcastle house explosion ‘named’ after second body found

Six people, five adults and a child, were taken to hospital following the incident and a man in his 30s remains in a critical but stable condition.

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37 minutes ago X Factor star Mary Byrne says she and Liam Payne were like ‘mammy and boy’

The Dublin-born singer said she last met Payne six years ago when they appeared as guests on RTE’s The Late Late Show.

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66 minutes ago Pictured: Woman who died in M6 horror crash after car 'travelled the wrong way down the motorway'

A GoFundMe appeal has been set up to help support the family of mother Jade McEnroe who is believed to have been among those killed in Tuesday's collision.

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75 minutes ago Middle East crisis live: Israel DNA testing body believed could be Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

Hamas sources indicate they think Sinwar, seen as an architect of the 7 October attack, has been killed in an Israeli operation in GazaThe US military has mobilised its long-range B-2 stealth bombers to conduct strikes against “five hardened underground weapons storage locations” in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. The Pentagon said the facilities house various weapons components the Houthis have used to target civilian and military vessels, roiling commercial shipping in the Red Sea. “This was a unique demonstration of the United States’ ability to target facilities that our adversaries seek to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened, or fortified,” defence secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.The US Central Command said its battle damage assessments...

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81 minutes ago M6 crash: Mum who died in horror smash with car 'going wrong way on motorway' pictured

Five people, including two children, died in the horror crash between a Skoda and Toyota on the major motorway as they passed near Tebay Services in Penrith, Cumbria on Tuesday

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83 minutes ago First picture of Scots mum killed in horror M6 crash as cops probe 'car driving wrong way'

Jade McEnroe, 33, from Glasgow, was pronounced dead alongside a 42-year-old man and two boys aged 15 and seven on the motorway in Cumbria at around 4pm on Tuesday.

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89 minutes ago Child, 7, killed in Newcastle house explosion was a ‘beautiful, funny and caring little boy’

Family of Archie York say they are ‘truly devastated and heartbroken beyond words’ by his death

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97 minutes ago Nottingham shooting: Three shot after gunman opens fire at 10 people in horror attack

A gunman opened fire at around 10 people and hit three in horror attacks in different locations of Nottingham with incidents reported in the Bestwood and Sherwood areas of the city

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1 hour ago Liam Payne and his bandmates all sought solo success after One Direction fame

One Direction was one of the last boy bands from the age of mass-audience linear television and one of the first of the social media era

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2 hours ago Teenage girl with unbearable itch was told to stay away from family pets, but the real cause was devastating

Niamh Connell, 15, developed a constant irritating itch across her body in June, which was initially dismissed as an allergic reaction, but it was something far more sinister

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