7 h. ago A friend killed, and inquiries shelved: life fighting the stigma of albinism in Malawi

People with albinism are often attacked and even killed for body parts. As elections approach, activist Tonney Mkwapatira fears the situation may get worseTonney Mkwapatira was making a rare visit back to his home village from the Malawian city of Blantyre when he saw his childhood friend for the last time. Just a week after Mkwapatira returned to Blantyre he heard that his friend, a security guard for a church, had been murdered.“His name was Chikumbutso Masina and we used to chat almost every day. We looked alike and it was painful when people missed him because they used to ask me questions like, “Oh we heard that you had died?” It really touched me and I will never forget,” he says. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Teen girl fighting for life after being knocked down in horror crash on Scots road

Emergency services raced to Haddington Road in Musselburgh after the alarm was raised at around 4.15pm on Friday, April 18.

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68 h. ago Man killed and passenger fighting for life after police chase ends in horror crash

Man killed and passenger fighting for life after police chase ends in horror crash  London Evening Standard

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69 h. ago Man killed and six people rushed to hospital after police chase ends in three

One man has been killed and another person is fighting for their life after three cars smashed in a horror crash following a police chase.

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2 d. ago Man killed and passenger fighting for life after south London police chase ends in horror crash

Five other people were injured in the collision on Wickham Road

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3 d. ago Rampaging dog owner's three words before beloved cavapoo savaged in brutal attack

Steven Yorke revealed the terrifying ordeal he and his dog faced when an off-lead pet attacked his beloved cavapoo on a woodland walk - leaving it fighting for its life

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3 d. ago Inside Conor Benn's camp: What made him 'cry like a baby' and why he's 'misunderstood' but 'doesn't give a s***' laid bare in candid interview before Chris Eubank Jr battle

CHARLOTTE DALY IN CAMP EXCLUSIVE: I flew out to Palma to visit Conor Benn in training camp ahead of the biggest fight of his life - a collision with Chris Eubank Jr.

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3 d. ago Chris Eubank Jr's secret life as gang enforcer involved fights in car parks

The British boxing star is currently preparing for the biggest dust-up of his to date - but his career was on the verge of playing out totally differently

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3 d. ago Newlywed, 44, claims hotel 'error' left him fighting for his life with sudden heart failure

Thomas Coupland, 44, spent a week in Italy with his wife Natasha as they took to celebrate tying the knot, but the holiday quickly became a nightmare.

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3 d. ago Hotel error leaves newlywed, 44, fighting for his life with sudden heart failure

Thomas Coupland, 44, spent a week in Italy with his wife Natasha as they took to celebrate tying the knot, but the holiday quickly became a nightmare.

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4 d. ago Prince Harry 'made catastrophic decision after marrying Meghan Markle' charity local claims

Prince Harry founded the Sentebale charity back in 2006 alongside his friend Prince Seeiso, but he's been accused of "killing the spirit" with his alleged diminishing involvement

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5 d. ago Crawley Leisure Park crash: Woman killed is pictured as girl, 12, fights for life

Dominyka Jonikaite, 25, died at the scene in West Sussex, while her sister, and teen cousin were taken to hospital with serious injuries. The driver was arrested

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5 d. ago ‘Apparently, he had a fist fight with King Charles’: the jawdropping life of Luca Prodan, Argentina’s punk god

He was a gin-swilling Scottish-Italian heroin addict who set Argentina’s music scene ablaze – baffling the junta, who would arrest his audiences. As a biopic looms, we look at the fast life and early death of the frontman still worshipped todayIn 1980, a tall, thin man landed in Buenos Aires airport, at the height of Argentina’s military dictatorship. His name was Luca Prodan, a Scottish-Italian rocker, and he had just finished the last of his methadone on the flight over. His arrival would soon send shockwaves through Argentina when he started a band called Sumo, acquainted the country with post-punk, and became a national legend who lives on, his music still earning hundreds of millions of streams. “When I saw Sumo in 1982,” says Prodan’s younger brother Andrea, “I thought, ‘This is more than just a band. This is like the Velvet Underground.’”But, despite Prodan’s strong ties to Europe and his high esteem in Argentina, he is barely known outside of the country. That looks set to c...

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6 d. ago Menorca crash: Brit woman, 59, fighting for life in horror car smash on holiday island

The 59-year-old British national had to be freed from the wreckage of her car by firefighters following the crash yesterday morning around 10.30am local time just outside Menorca's capital of Mahon

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6 d. ago Pensioner dies in horror crash as another fighting for life in hospital

The road was closed until around 6.25pm to allow for an investigation at the scene and has since fully reopened.

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6 d. ago Woman dies and another critical after 'cryotherapy chamber' leak

A woman has died and another is fighting for her life after a nitrogen leak inside a cryotherapy chamber.

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6 d. ago Moment murderer arrested for killing friend after ‘childish’ eyebrow prank

Police footage captures the moment a murderer was arrested after killing his friend following an eyebrow prank.

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6 d. ago BBC wildlife expert, 28, left fighting for life with severe brain damage after plunging 30ft from cliff when climbing gear suddenly failed

Bruce Miller, 28, a researcher with the BBC's Natural History Unit, spent 17 days in a coma following the catastrophic fall at Avon Gorge, Somerset, in July last year.

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6 d. ago Cryotherapy horror as woman killed and another fighting for life after nitrogen leak inside chamber

A 20-year-old worker at a cryotherapy centre at an On Air gym in Paris, France, was killed in a suspected nitrogen leak as French police investigate the accident

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7 d. ago Lego boss and close friend of Danish royal family killed in skiing accident

Michael Halbye, 64, had been skiing in the Verbier region on Saturday when he fell off piste and was fatally injured

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