I am an academic, a mother, no threat to anyone. Yet those I love have been injured and killed, and I have endured indescribable hardshipsI am a Palestinian mother with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree, and I am currently a doctoral student. I work as a lecturer at Gaza’s University College of Science and Technology.I married my first husband when I was 22 years old. We had two children: our son, Shihab, who is now 19, and our daughter, Maryam, who is 17. Tragically, in 2007, my husband was killed in a painful accident that I witnessed. I suffered a psychological breakdown and, after several years, married again, to my first husband’s brother. I became his second wife; he already had a wife and three children: Asmaa, 16, Ali, 13, and Muhammad, 12. Together, we had four children: Zeina, now 12, Yassin, 11, Naseeba, eight, and Zain al-Din, two. Continue reading...

Five entire families can be killed, totalling 30 wolves, in move campaigners say is illegal under EU lawSweden’s wolf hunt starts on Thursday, with the country aiming to halve the population of the endangered predator.The Swedish government has given the green light for five entire wolf families, a total of 30 wolves, to be killed in a hunt campaigners say is illegal under EU law. Under the Berne convention, protected species cannot be caused to have their populations fall under a sustainable level. Continue reading...

More than 190 journalists have been killed by the Israeli Defence Forces since the war in Gaza began, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said.

Assaults on medical facilities could amount to war crimes in certain circumstances, human rights office report says Israel’s pattern of sustained attacks on Gaza’s hospitals and medical workers has brought the coastal strip’s healthcare system to the brink of “total collapse”, according to a report by the UN’s human rights office.The report, which catalogues the besieging and targeting of hospitals and their immediate grounds with explosive weapons, the killing of hundreds of medical workers, and the destruction of critical life-saving equipment, said that in certain circumstances the attacks could “amount to war crimes”. Israel has consistently denied committing war crimes in Gaza. Continue reading...

ITV soap star Sue Devaney was reportedly shocked after learning her character is to be 'killed off' in 2025

Nearly one in four doctors say the practice of prior authorization has led to serious issues for patientsIn the wake of the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, and the outpouring of frustration about insurance coverage, prior authorizations have emerged as a particular roadblock in healthcare.Prior authorization requires medical providers to get an insurer’s approval before patients receive healthcare or medications. Continue reading...

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: A zookeeper in Uzbekistan filmed himself as he tried to round up three lions that had escaped into the courtyard from their enclosure, but tragically they suddenly attacked and killed him

Danny Armstrong picked up Killie's eighth red card of the season on Sunday but his team-mate says players can't afford to be worried

Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes have killed at least nine people in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children

Based on a real mass killing, this 16th-century tale of backstabbing and beheadings is a clunker with a laddish edge‘A great deal of this actually happened,” reads the title card at the start of this action-packed historical epic. Possibly. But it’s unlikely that anyone actually said these words. Like an episode of Game of Thrones scripted by Guy Ritchie, there is a laddish finesse to the dialogue in this 16th-century tale of backstabbing and beheadings. “That sounds like a load of bollocks,” splutters the Danish king Christian II to an adviser in one scene. The actors are mostly Danes and Swedes speaking lines in English, plus a few Brits with a slight Scandi tinge to their accents.The film is based on real events: the mass killing of Swedish nobles in 1520, ordered by Danish king Christian II (Claes Bang). The script gives history a revisionist twist or two: namely by adding a pair of aristocratic Swedish sisters, beautiful Anne (Sophie Cookson) and skilled hunter Freja (Alba Augu...

Grieving relatives of people killed in a plane crash in South Korea have visited the site to pay respects to their loved ones on New Year’s Day

Authorities hope for vital clues as contents of cockpit recorder are converted into audio formatInvestigators in South Korea have extracted data from one of two “black boxes” retrieved from a Jeju Air plane that crashed shortly after landing on Sunday, killing all but two of the 181 people aboard.The country’s deputy minister for civil aviation, Joo Jong-wan, said initial data had been retrieved from the Boeing 737-800’s cockpit voice recorder, adding that the contents were being converted into audio format. Continue reading...

Vehicle allegedly drove into two officers ‘at speed’ in Nelson, in a country where the killing of police officers on duty is rareA driver allegedly ran down two New Zealand police officers down as they patrolled on foot in the early hours of New Year’s Day, killing one and seriously injuring the other, the country’s police chief said.The incident shocked a country where the killing of police officers on duty is rare. Continue reading...

Young mother Marguerita Sheridan was killed in a hit and run just weeks after giving birth to a baby. She sadly passed away after a van crash at 12.15pm on December 21 in Rathkeale, Co Limerick.

Rotterdam Police confirmed a boy, believed to be 14 years of age, has died after being seriously injured by fireworks on New Year's Eve

EXCL: David Norris, 48, could be freed in months after he was granted an oral Parole Board hearing which could happen as early as May, the Mail can reveal.

Police have confirmed the tragic death of a young boy today after he was seriously injured by fireworks in a horror incident on New Year's Eve as an investigation is now underway

No one has been arrested or charged in connection with the fatal collision, police say

Rotterdam Police confirmed a boy, believed to be 14 years of age, has died after being seriously injured by fireworks on New Year's Eve

Emmerdale fans fear Moira Dingle might be killed off in the coming months on the ITV soap, after a worrying funeral scene featuring her husband Cain Dingle was teased

Debra Lee Miller, 18, was found murdered in her Ohio apartment on April 29, 1981

Data from the campaign group Counting Dead Women, shared with The Independent, estimates 80 women have been killed in cases where a man has been charged in relation to her death

An unnamed 63-year-old woman in Tennessee went into sepsis after a complication from kidney stones so rare there have only been about a dozen reported cases in medical literature.

‘The shark bit me and didn’t let go. I fought until I was exhausted’ survivor of Marsa Alam shark attack says

Emmerdale fans are convinced they have worked out who the dead body in the bag is - and it's a beloved character who is set to be killed off in the coming months

The Sodder family home was consumed by fire on Christmas Eve in 1945, and only four of the nine children inside managed to escape the blaze, which was assumed to be fatal

Liam Woods, 25, was told he was lucky he did not kill anyone after he was caught speeding through multiple red lights in Bradford.

Emmerdale viewers have been shown several flashforward scenes of late, hinting multiple characters will die or be killed off - meaning three or four character's lives are at risk

The boy used his father’s guns to open fire on his fellow pupils and others

Jazwell Brown, 49, is charged with murdering Joanne Pearson, 38, and Teohna Grant, 24, and trying to kill two others on Christmas Day

Investigators in Mansfield, Ohio, have announced that a cold case homicide of Debra Lee Miller, who died aged 18 in 1981, is now solved - but a twist means the suspected killer will not face prosecution.

Emmerdale 2025 spoilers have teased that multiple deaths are on the way after a night out leads to devastation - but what does it all mean and who will die?

Experts have revealed how two cabin crew from the doomed Jeju Air plane crash on Sunday may have survived. 

A team of U.S. investigators including representatives from Boeing have examined the site of a plane crash that killed 179 people in South Korea

The grandfather who owned the little dog died alongside his wife, their daughters, their son-in-law and four grandchildren when flight 2216 crash-landed at Muan Airport on Sunday.

‘It’s taken her a long time to come to terms with it,’ source said

Islamic State affiliate expands control since 2023 coup, killing hundreds of civilians and enslaving women, as media ban allows regime to cover up attacksOn 12 December, Hadjara Zibo and her three young daughters ran to the hills from their home in Libiri as armed jihadists stormed their village in Niger’s Tillabéri region, near the border with Burkina Faso and Mali.“If they reached us, they could rape and kill us,” says Zibo, 39, describing how they escaped amid gunfire and flames. Continue reading...

Bereaved families of the deadly plane crash in South Korea that killed 179 people have urged officials to recover the bodies of their loved ones.

Emmerdale's Leyla Harding will reportedly be killed off in looming scenes on the ITV soap, and now a deadly flashforward has left fans convinced they know how she dies

Daniel Bartlam was 14 when he killed mother Jacqueline at their home in Redhill, Nottingham , before burning her body in April 2011.

FEMAIL delves into the extraordinary stories of people around the world who managed the seemingly impossible to survive catastrophic plane crashes which killed dozens of passengers.

A suburban New York prosecutor says a reinvestigation has identified two suspects in a notorious 1996 double killing

Luke Littler produces 111 average to take deciding setMichael van Gerwen and Stephen Bunting also advanceHe looks wounded out there. His cheeks are flushed. Palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. Ryan Joyce is on a finish already. Single‑20. This is as human, as vulnerable, as vincible, as we have ever seen him on that stage. There’s a fearless crowd‑pleasing underdog out there playing like he’s got nothing to lose. And it’s not him.So, Luke Littler, what do you do at your moment of greatest peril? When this world championship last‑16 game is teetering on a pin head, when an unfancied opponent 22 years older than you is throwing absolute bombs, when everything has been tried and nothing has worked? When millions are slowly sitting bolt upright on their sofas, in anticipation of an almighty upset? Continue reading...

BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay was joined by Jason Killen from the Welsh Ambulance Service who shared a "critical incident" announcement ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations

Welsh Ambulance Chief Executive Jason Killens has issued a warning to revellers after the Welsh Ambulance Service declared a 'critical incident' due to increased rates of COVID, flu and viruses.