32 minutes ago Will I be hugging my Emily in days? Mother of British hostage sends message of thanks to Donald Trump... and dreams of an end to her agony at last

On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists attacked Emily's home, shot her in the hand, murdered her friends and kidnapped her into Gaza amid the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.

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5 hours ago The modest terrace house where Tony Slattery ended his days: How comedian went from Thameside apartment where he found 'scrunched up' £100k cheques under the sofa to rented 'two

Donations are pouring in to help pay for Tony Slattery's funeral after the 65-year-old star suffered a fatal heart attack at his rented home in suburban north London.

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88 minutes ago Vanessa Feltz's ex 'purchases £1.8 million home with his new girlfriend'

Ben Ofoedu has purchased a £1.8 million Soho home with his new girlfriend, Vanessa Brown, months after splitting from his ex-fiancée Vanessa Feltz.

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14 hours ago Mikel Arteta gives Rio Ferdinand response he wanted to Arsenal transfer question

Arsenal stepped up in attack against Tottenham on Wednesday night as Leandro Trossard scored to inspire a 2-1 win in the North London Derby, but Mikel Arteta will know he still needs more depth up front

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26 minutes ago Man with stick kills two homeless people in Miami in ‘unprovoked’ attack

Suspect, 30, was captured after attempting to flee on foot

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2 hours ago He is credited with one of history's most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it

It's one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War — an Associated Press photograph of a young girl running naked down a street after being caught in a napalm attack

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2 hours ago Working class Manc lad who reached high office will forever regret a moment of madness

Mike Amesbury was hauled before a court following a 2am street attack

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30 hours ago England Cricket World Cup winner steps down and flees to Dubai after attacks on family home

James Vince, part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup on home soil, had his house and car attacked last year and said his young family were left fearing for their safety

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3 hours ago Carlisle trainee gas engineer who won £7.5m on lottery wants to keep working

James Clarkson, 20, hit the jackpot in first national lottery draw of 2025 but was back at work on Monday morningHis luck began on Christmas Day. After winning £120 in the Lotto Christmas Day Draw, 20-year-old James Clarkson decided to buy five lottery tickets for the first draw of 2025 – and won £7.5m.Clarkson, a trainee gas engineer from Carlisle, was staying over at his girlfriend’s house when he discovered he had hit the jackpot on 4 January. Continue reading...

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24 hours ago After the ennui and angst, Arsenal keep Premier League title race alive | Barney Ronay

Hosts played with a concentrated spirit in north London derby and were good value for their 2-1 defeat of TottenhamMaybe the world isn’t ending after all. Or at least, not yet anyway. For Arsenal, and indeed the Premier League, the title race is still alive, still twitching, like a dog kicking out in its sleep wondering whether to wake up.The past week has felt like a point of crisis for Mikel Arteta’s team, with cup defeats, points dropped, the attack and midfield gripped with a kind of ennui football. Certainly the energy around this team can often seem manic, overly low then overly high. Continue reading...

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61 minutes ago US imposes sanctions on Sudan’s army chief over tactics in deadly civil war

Measures come a week after Washington also sanctioned Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s rival, Mohamed Hamdan DagaloThe United States has imposed sanctions on Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, accusing him of choosing war over negotiations to bring an end to the conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and driven millions from their homes.The US treasury department said in a statement that under Burhan’s leadership, the army’s war tactics have included indiscriminate bombing of civilian infrastructure, attacks on schools, markets and hospitals, and extrajudicial executions. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago The Trump family reportedly doesn’t like Don Jr’s new girlfriend after his split from Kimberly Guilfoyle

‘The idea that he might have the audacity to bring a casual partner on stage at the inauguration has been described as a potential misstep,’ family friend says

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5 hours ago Tottenham to revive attacking star's career with January deal following North London derby defeat: report

Tottenham to revive attacking star's career with January deal following North London derby defeat: report  FourFourTwo

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25 hours ago Arsenal inject life into stalled season with vital derby win but transfer need remains

Gunners bounce back crucially from nightmare week to beat Tottenham, but they still need attacking reinforcements fast

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3 hours ago EastEnders fans 'work out' who attacked Cindy Beale after spotting clue in sinister letter

Cindy Beale received a frosty welcome home after returning from the hospital, but she was dealt another blow

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7 hours ago Jacob Fearnley labelled 'new Andy Murray' as he continues rapid rise alongside glamorous girlfriend

Twenty-three-year-old Jacob Fearnley is through to the third round of the Australian Open

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19 hours ago Man City might already be seeing an impact from potential £67m January deal

Manchester City remain in talks with Eintracht Frankfurt over a deal for forward Omar Marmoush, but their attack has looked sharp recently.

Economics

25 hours ago Scotland call for the player who waited 720 days between his first and second matches

But agony for Max Williamson who reinjures his thumb

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4 hours ago Gang of youths who punched and stabbed transgender teen in attack planned on Snapchat jailed

She was stabbed nine times with the attack filmed and shared on social media

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7 hours ago Kiena Dawes: Brutal fiancé learns his fate after young mum takes her own life

Ryan Wellings was found guilty of assault and controlling and coercive behaviour against girlfriend Kiena Dawes - but he was cleared of her manslaughter at Preston Crown Court

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32 hours ago Man United finally get green light to complete January transfer as loan deal agreed

Manchester United transfer news as Randal Kolo Muani's move to Juventus opens the door for Ruben Amorim to strengthen his options in attack

Economics

4 hours ago Pakistani airline says ad showing plane flying toward Eiffel Tower never meant to hurt 9/11 victims

Pakistan’s national airline says that an advertisement showing a plane heading toward the Eiffel Tower was never intended to evoke the memories of the Sept. 11 attacks

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8 hours ago Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury breaks silence after pleading guilty to punching man in street

Former Labour MP Mike Amesbury has broken his silence after pleading guilty to punching man in a late night street attack.

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4 hours ago Woman, 55, dies after her scarf got tangled in a conveyor belt at a factory 'and strangled her to death'

Emergency services responded to calls at around 7.30am today after the unnamed woman, 55, was found lying on the ground unconscious.

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8 hours ago Democrats push for release of second part of Jack Smith’s Trump report

Merrick Garland pressed to use final days to release report on president-elect’s retention of classified documentsUS politics live – latest updatesDemocrats are pressing Merrick Garland, the US attorney general, to use his last days in office to release the second volume of the special counsel’s report about Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents.The demand comes after the justice department this week published the first part of Jack Smith’s report, which looked at the president-elect’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including inciting a violent mob to attack the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Mourners bury journalist killed in one of Haiti's worst attacks on reporters

The first of two journalists recently killed by gangs while covering the failed reopening of Haiti’s largest public hospital has been buried

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8 hours ago 'I'm a professional girlfriend and have a strategy to find rich men to spoil me'

A woman insists that 'the right man' should be spending hundreds on the first date. She often gets spoilt by rich suitors who treat her to new clothes, beauty items, holidays and expensive meals

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11 hours ago Timothée Chalamet tries his best in A Complete Unknown, a Bob Dylan biopic that plays too safe

There’s something a touch too uncrumpled about the ‘Dune’ star here, in a movie that lacks the required bite

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5 hours ago Transgender teen stabbed after sex act in 'sickening' attack at roller disco

The transgender victim was mercilessly stabbed and beaten after being lured to Harrow Leisure Centre in North London in an ambush organised over Snapchat, while one bystander robbed her handbag

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12 hours ago Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan recovering after being stabbed by intruder at his home

Knife lodged in spine of actor during 2am attack at Mumbai property he shares with Kareena Kapoor and their two childrenSaif Ali Khan, one of Bollywood’s most popular actors, is recovering in hospital after a knife became lodged in his spine during an attack by an intruder in his Mumbai home.Medical officials said Khan sustained six stab wounds in the attack, which took place during a 2am altercation with an intruder who had entered the family home he shares with his wife, the Bollywood superstar Kareena Kapoor, and their two children. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Shocking moment gang of 'misfits' carry out savage attack on transgender teenager lured to London rollerdisco

The victim of the transphobic attack asked for footage of the brutal assault to be released to show reality of hate crime

Events

13 hours ago Arsenal's Gabriel Jesus replacement 'lives for goals' as Mikel Arteta gets green light

Mikel Arteta was already lacking attacking firepower before Gabriel Jesus was sidelined with an ACL injury, with Arsenal naturally being heavily linked with attacking transfer targets

Politics

6 hours ago 'September 5' revisits the seminal Munich Olympics attack broadcast, with questions for today

Nearly all of the new film “September 5” takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the hostage crisis of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich

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14 hours ago Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan stabbed multiple times after intruder climbs shaft to enter Mumbai home

His wife, Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor Khan, and sons Taimur, 7, and Jeh, 3, were also present in the house but were unhurt

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6 hours ago St Ninians man jailed after battering dog to death in golf club attack

The sustained attack caused the distressed Romanian Shepherd to cry for 20 minutes according to a neighbour.

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16 hours ago Saif Ali Khan: Bollywood star fighting for life after being stabbed by intruder in home

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan, 54, was attacked in his home as he slept alongside his wife before being rushed to a hospital in Mumbai where he underwent surgery for stab wounds

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6 hours ago Police probe after blogger accesses and films house where Virginia McCullough murdered her parents and kept their bodies for four years

McCullough was handed a minimum 36 year jail term for poisoning her father John, 70, and killing her mother Lois, 71, in a hammer and knife attack in June 2019.

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17 hours ago Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan stabbed in scuffle with intruder at his Mumbai home

Saif Ali Khan was rushed to a nearby hospital at around 3.30am with six stab injuries received in a scuffle with an intruder

Politics

7 hours ago MP blasts East Kilbride SNP councillors' 'attack' over Labour's tax raid as 'playground stuff'

Councillor John Anderson has claimed Joani Reid, Labour MP for East Kilbride, "chose to ignore" the scale of concern and warnings about Labour's tax raid.

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17 hours ago Pakistan PM orders inquiry after national airline ad accused of evoking 9/11 imagery

Online advertisement by PIA is called ‘stupidity’ by finance minister, who said PM Shehbaz Sharif had ordered an investigationPakistan’s prime minister has ordered an investigation after the country’s national airline released an advert that drew accusations that it evoked imagery of the 9/11 attacks.The advert was released by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) last week to celebrate the resumption of flights to Paris, which had been suspended for four years over safety concerns about its pilots. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Monster Ryan Wellings jailed after girlfriend took her own life over his torturous abuse

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Ryan Wellings has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years for a campaign of violent abuse and control he launched against his former fiancée Kiena Dawes, who wrote he 'killed' her

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23 hours ago MAGA world tries to keep Don Jr's girlfriend Bettina Anderson away from Trump inauguration

Allies of Donald Trump and the incoming administration continue to be worried about the presence of Donald Trump Jr .'s new girlfriend, Bettina Anderson.

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7 hours ago ‘Bro I can’t let this slide’: The chilling warning of troubled teenage killer who murdered schoolgirl

Hassan Sentamu had warned his friend ‘Bro I can’t let this slide’ before launching his murderous attack on schoolgirl Elianne Andam

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24 hours ago Romeo Beckham and his girlfriend Kim Turnbull get new tattoos in London

Romeo Beckham and his girlfriend Kim Turnbull get new tattoos in London  HOLA! USA

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7 hours ago Kiena Dawes sickeningly replaced by lookalike girlfriend who left dead mum disturbing gift

Ryan Wellings, who abused Kiena Dawes for two years before her suicide, has today been sentenced to six years and six months - but his new girlfriend Emma Croft, who has loyally stood by him during the trial, was nowhere to be seen

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25 hours ago Joe Biden pens 'farewell letter' to all Americans and takes brutal swipe at Donald Trump

President Joe Biden's final words to Americans included a reminder about the 'attack on democracy' sparked by fanatical Donald Trump supporters before Mr Biden took office in 2021

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7 hours ago Man, 51, arrested at Manchester Piccadilly on suspicion of attempted murder after woman in her 40s stabbed

'We are confident this was a targeted attack from a person known to the victim'

Events

25 hours ago Isak extends hot streak to sink Wolves and lift Newcastle into top four

Newcastle’s sixth successive Premier League win – and ninth in all competitions – lifted Eddie Howe’s renascent team to fourth place as Alexander Isak demonstrated precisely why his manager believes he is a good as any striker in the world right now.Isak’s 16th and 17th goals of an extraordinary season pushed Wolves into the relegation zone, nudging them below fourth bottom Ipswich on goal difference but Vitor ­Pereira’s side offered sufficient attacking threat to suggest survival should be within their grasp. Continue reading...

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8 hours ago Kiena Dawes death: Brutal Ryan Wellings 'a clear and present danger' warns prosecutor

The court was told Ryan Wellings was convicted of assaulting his last girlfriend before Kiena. The prosecutor pointed out the similarities in the cases

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27 hours ago EastEnders viewers 'work out' what Peter Beale's hiding in Cindy 'twist'

EastEnders aired some worrying scenes as Lauren Branning confided in Peter Beale about the night Cindy Beale was attacked, but something left fans sure of a twist

Politics

8 hours ago I met Saif Ali Khan and he is unquestionably my favourite interview ever — his attack left me shaken

Waking up to the news that Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan had been brutally stabbed six times inside his home left me shaken. I found myself thinking back to the time I'd met him.

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