39 minutes ago Inspired schoolboy joins forces with Brianna Ghey's mum in £30,000 challenge

Harvey Goodman was at an awards night when he heard Brianna's mum Esther talking about her mission to improve mental health services following her daughter's murder

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39 minutes ago 'Christmas crime wave' warning as over 600 shoplifting crimes a day go unsolved

Some 245,500 shoplifting cases were closed without a suspect being identified in the year to March 2024, damning research by the Liberal Democrats shows

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39 minutes ago Boy, 9, teams up with mum of murdered Brianna Ghey ahead of major triathlon

Nine-year-old Harvey Goodman is teaming up with Esther Ghey, mum of murdered teen Brianna, for a triathlon to raise funds for Esther’s Peace & Mind UK mental health charity

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59 minutes ago German Christmas market suspect was quizzed in 2013 after suggesting he would commit an atrocity

Dr Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, 50, had been investigated after he threatened to attack a medical association over a dispute about his qualifications.

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69 minutes ago Fiery plane crash in Brazil tourist hotspot kills 10 and injures more after aircraft 'clipped chimney, ploughed into second

The small aircraft, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, slammed into a commercial district in the city of Gramado in southern Brazil , civil defense authorities said.

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2 hours ago Brazil plane crash sees 10 killed and dozens injured as aircraft hits residential buildings

Local reports have said a businessman and his family were on the place that crashed into several buildings in the Brazilian town of Gramado earlier today (December 22)

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2 hours ago German Christmas market suspect spotted visiting takeaway just hours before attack that killed 5

A snack shop owner in the Magdeburg area of Germany, where a man ploughed into people at a Christmas market and killed five people, has told of how the suspect visited his takeaway store hours earlier

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3 hours ago 'Silent killer' warning over Christmas and New Year as we look how to spot the symptoms

Holiday Heart Syndrome (HHS) is a condition where binge drinking during weekends and holidays can lead to cardiac arrhythmias, which are irregularities in the heartbeat

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3 hours ago Louisiana holds people in prisons past their release date, DoJ lawsuit alleges

State accused of ‘systemic overdetention’ that violates inmates’ rights and costs taxpayers millions of dollars a yearLouisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences, the US justice department alleged in a lawsuit filed on Friday. The suit against the state of Louisiana follows a multi-year investigation into what federal officials say is a pattern of “systemic overdetention” that violates inmates’ rights and costs taxpayers millions of dollars a year.The justice department alleges that since at least 2012, more than a quarter of the people due to be released from Louisiana prisons have instead been held past their release dates. The DoJ warned Louisiana officials last year that the state could face a lawsuit if it didn’t fix the problems – but lawyers for the department say the state’s “marginal efforts” to address the issues were “inadequate” and showed a “deliberate indifference” to the constitutional rights of incarcera...

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4 hours ago Time for Tyson Fury to consider leaving the stage after Usyk defeat dims aura

The Briton stayed the distance against Oleksandr Usyk but after back-to-back defeats what is left for the 36-year-old to prove?In the end everyone runs out of road. It was probably necessary for Tyson Fury to say he was robbed in the Kingdom Arena on Saturday night. Boxing demands this level of irrationality. Logical multimillionaires do not willingly schedule a brain-jarring, soul‑shredding half-hour beating from one of the most effective practitioners of controlled violence ever to walk the planet. A basic suspension of reason is required. Without it no one would ever step in the ring.So Fury will maintain that all three judges were wrong to award a unanimous points decision in Oleksandr Usyk’s favour after 12 thrillingly intense rounds in Riyadh. Last time out Fury said he lost because of the war in Ukraine. This time he said it was because of Christmas. Nobody was robbed here. Fury, the challenger, needed to go out and actively take the heavyweight belts. In the event the c...

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