26 h. ago Man tracked down his wife after she fled home and stabbed her 26 times as she pushed their baby in pram, murder trial told

Kulsuma Akter was 27 and from Oldham

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49 h. ago Husband, 26, 'casually walked off' after stabbing his wife to death as she pushed their seven

Habibur Masum, 26, launched a 'ferocious' knife attack on Kulsama Akter, 27, after confronting her on a street as she pushed their seven-month old infant in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the court heard.

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52 h. ago Man ‘casually walked off’ after stabbing wife to death and leaving baby – trial

Habibur Masum, 26, threw the knife away before ‘dusting his hands and calmly carrying on’ as his wife lay fatally injured, a witness said.

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66 h. ago How Bukayo Saka’s Christmas sacrifice energised Arsenal and England return

Saka went under the knife on Christmas Eve in a bid to recover from a serious hamstring injury as soon as possible

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66 h. ago Bukayo Saka reveals injury fears and 'horrible' truth behind Christmas Eve surgery

Arsenal talisman believes he is back in great shape after the frustration of missing three months of last season with a hamstring problem that required surgery

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2 d. ago 'Jealous' husband stabbed wife to death as she pushed their baby in a pram after tracking her down to hostel when she escaped 'violent and controlling' relationship, court told

Habibur Masum, 26, launched a 'ferocious' knife attack on Kulsuma Akter, 27, after confronting her on a street in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

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7 d. ago YouTuber, 26, admits stabbing his wife to death while she pushed their baby in a pram through Bradford

Kulsuma Akter, 27, died after being stabbed several times in Bradford city centre in broad daylight on April 6 last year.

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7 d. ago Man admits manslaughter of wife who was stabbed as she pushed baby in pram

Kulsuma Akter, 27, died after being stabbed several times in Bradford city centre on April 6 last year.

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2 w. ago Swedish man charged over 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State group

A Swedish man has been indicted as a member of the Islamic State group in connection with the killing of a Jordanian pilot whose plane went down in Syria on Christmas Eve 2014

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2 w. ago Amongst the Wolves review – drills and chills in Irish gangster thriller

Aiden Gillen is in ultraviolent mode as a sadistic gang boss, but it is co-writer Luke McQuillan who brings a careful nuance to this uneven and bloody tale of revenge Irish director Mark O’Connor’s film is a two-for-one deal. It starts out as a serious well-researched drama about an army veteran with PTSD sleeping rough in Dublin, and ends in bloody revenge, with Aidan Gillen in ultraviolent mode and gangsters drilling holes into each other’s kneecaps.The movie is grounded by a rock solid performance from the film’s co-writer Luke McQuillan as former soldier Danny, who loses his family and home after a tour in Afghanistan. There’s a scene early on that feels horribly truthful about the day-to-day reality of being homeless: late one night, three lagered up youths humiliate Danny for a laugh – forcing him in front of the camera as they shove a coin into his hand. The shame on his face as they film him is harder to watch than the electric drills later that come later. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: I thought my wages would be docked but the customer I’d overpaid returned

The till was $20 short – almost a week’s pay. It meant I’d have no money for the Christmas periodRead more in the Kindness of strangers seriesIt was Christmas Eve, 1977. I was 20 years old and working on the desk at a credit union as a teller. Management thought it was a wise idea to offer our customers a glass of champagne with their withdrawals that day, so I had been helping myself to a small glass of bubbly as I handed the customers one.By the end of the day I was unsurprisingly a bit tipsy and, when I balanced up the till, I realised I was $20 short. At the time, $20 was almost a week’s pay for me, or at least half a week’s pay, so it was a decent amount of money. I was sitting there feeling quite distressed, because if the till was down you had to make it up from your own wages – that was the deal. It meant I would have no money for the Christmas period. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Killer wife who stabbed her husband in the neck before texting her mother 'I've done something awful' is jailed for life

Christine Kekkonen, 37, knifed Henri Kekkonen, 41, at their home in Baltonsborough, Somerset in May last year.

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3 w. ago Millionaire tire boss' affair with younger assistant turns deadly as he returns home to find his wife murdered

Millionaire Goodyear executive Chris Delaney's affair with his personal secretary, Greet Vandeput, allegedly turned deadly when she allegedly stabbed his wife, Carmel, to death.

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3 w. ago Teacher spotted something wrong with boy, seven, as he struggled to read

Todd was given his diagnosis on Christmas Eve

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3 w. ago Abusive thug stabbed wife on Christmas Eve then said 4 chilling words as he filmed her dying

Bahaalddin Alshwawrah, 45, recorded his wife Zeinat Bashabsheh, 42, as she lay in a pool of her own blood with 14 stab wounds to her torso after he claimed she had an affair

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3 w. ago Boy, seven, told he had a tumour after teacher saw the signs

Todd was given his diagnosis on Christmas Eve

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3 w. ago Jake Paul sends new offer to KSI to fight rival on Christmas Eve

Jake Paul and KSI have yet to meet in the ring despite plenty of speculation about the two YouTubers-turned-boxers facing off, but the terms for a potential festive fight are out

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3 w. ago A New Orleans man with a history of violent allegations killed his neighbor – now a family seeks justice for their son

Leroy Stelly Jr shot Richie Smith dead in 2023 but was never charged. Now Smith’s mother and father have unearthed Stelly’s brutal past and are asking police for justiceOver a roughly 14-year period beginning in 2009, Leroy Stelly Jr faced accusations of pepper-spraying two women whom he encountered on a sidewalk and insulted as “bitches”, slapping his future wife at a bar, and threatening to shoot a construction worker while pretending to be a cop.He also called emergency operators and declared that he was “going to put a fucking .45”-caliber bullet in the head of someone who had banged on his door. He allegedly punched a guest he had over on Christmas Eve. He reportedly challenged people at a healthcare clinic with which he shares a fence “to meet [him] out on the street”. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection

Cannes film festivalDrawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evilAn icy chill of fear and justified paranoia radiates from this starkly austere and gripping movie from Sergei Loznitsa, set in Stalin’s Russia of the late 30s and based on a story by the dissident author and scientist Georgy Demidov, who was held in the gulag for 14 years during the second world war and harassed by the state until his death in the late 1980s. The resulting movie, with its slow, extended scenes from single camera positions, mimics the zombie existence of the Soviet state and allows a terrible anxiety to accumulate: it is about a malign bureaucracy which protects and replicates itself by infecting those who challenge it with a bacillus of guilt. There is something of Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead and also – with the appearance of two strangely grinning, singing men in a railway carriage – Kafka’s The...

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