6 hours ago Femicide declared 'national emergency' as woman is killed every three days by partner or family

In the UK, a woman is killed by a man every three days on average - the problem is so serious that the National Police Chiefs' Council has declared it a 'national emergency'

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7 hours ago Woman who survived catastrophic 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami recalls her mother's heartbreaking last words before she was killed in the natural disaster

Olivia Soo from Malaysia , travelled to Thailand with her mother, stepfather, two sisters and her brother and his girlfriend for their family holiday. But she had no clue of the devastation that would soon strike.

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8 hours ago ‘If you survive this, you somehow must share it’: reliving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

A harrowing docuseries looks back at the deadly Boxing Day tsunami that killed over 225,000, speaking to survivorsOn Christmas day, 2004, Chris Xaver arrived in Phuket, a popular tourist destination on the south-west coast of Thailand, for a brief holiday. It was already dark by the time she and her then husband, Scott, got to the hotel; she couldn’t see the ocean, but could smell the saltwater of a beach vacation. The next morning, she had just stepped out of the shower when water started flooding their sea-level bungalow. Thinking the water main had broken, they called the front desk. No answer. Outside the bungalow, they saw the remnants of what they assumed was a rogue wave. “The lexicon, the word tsunami, was not in our brain,” Xaver recalled.Twenty years on, she remembers standing...

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12 hours ago 4 killed after a survey of a mosque sparks clashes in a northern Indian city

Authorities have closed schools and suspended internet services in a northern Indian city a day after four people were killed in clashes sparked by an official survey probing whether a 16th-century mosque was built on a Hindu temple

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14 hours ago Horror as father of missing Hannah Kobayashi is found dead at LAX after flying in to LA to help find her when she disappeared two weeks ago

The distraught father of a missing 31-year-old photographer has been found dead after he flew into Los Angeles to assist the search. 

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20 hours ago An average of 140 women and girls were killed by a partner or relative per day in 2023, the UN says

Two U.N. agencies say an average of 140 women and girls were killed by an intimate partner or family member per day last year

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