10 h. ago The best day ever: have scientists found the secret of happiness?

Six hours of family time, two hours with friends, plus extra socialising, exercise and work ... Does it all add up to a highly satisfying 24 hours – or just a very tiring one?Name: The perfect day.Appearance: Data driven. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Teenager, 17, shot dead parents as part of Trump assassination plot, says FBI

Nikita Casap, 17, detailed intentions in a three-page anti-Semitic manifesto praising Adolf Hitler

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3 d. ago 20 years after two Marine brothers were found shot dead cops say they have charged a suspect

A motive for the killing has not been released

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3 d. ago Cop killer's final act of defiance before being shot dead by prison firing squad in violent execution

Mikal Mahdi, with a hood over his head, cried out as the three bullets to the heart hit him and his arms flexed. A red bull's-eye that was placed over his heart was pushed into the bullet wound in his chest.

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4 d. ago Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree

Mahdi, who killed an officer in 2004, endured torture in his childhood and argued he was denied a fair trialA prison firing squad in South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday, the second recent death row killing in the state by authorized gunfire.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees inside the execution chamber, where authorities have carried out a rapid spree of killings as South Carolina aggressively revives capital punishment. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Supermarket workers shot dead in and outside store as major investigation launched

Multiple shootings which started inside a supermarket and ended at a worker's home has left two Walmart colleagues dead and a third in a critical condition in hospital

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4 d. ago Next Top Model's Lucy Markovic's family made heartbreaking plea hours before tragic death

Next Top Model star Lucy Markovic has died at the age of 27. Hours before her tragic death was announced, her family took to her Instagram story to share a heartbreaking request

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4 d. ago Family’s grief as ‘cherished nanna’ dies less than 12 hours after hospital discharge

A coroner has ruled Margaret Laird would not have died had she not been discharged

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4 d. ago How a phone footage exposed a massacre of Gaza paramedics – podcast

Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. Bethan McKernan reports on the emerging evidence of what happenedIsraeli forces shot dead 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers on 23 March and buried them in a mass grave in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah.The Israeli military claimed their vehicles had been “advancing suspiciously” and without headlights or flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago How phone footage exposed a massacre of Gaza paramedics – podcast

Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. Bethan McKernan reports on the emerging evidence of what happenedIsraeli forces shot dead 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers on 23 March and buried them in a mass grave in the Tel al-Sultan district of Rafah.The Israeli military claimed their vehicles had been “advancing suspiciously” and without headlights or flashing emergency lights. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Man, 38, and woman, 35, appear in court after grandfather, 60, was shot dead through window of his home in Stanley

Kevin Dorward, 38, is accused of murder and is said to have been one of a group of people who drove to the home of Barry Dawson, 60, and committed a broad daylight attack.

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6 d. ago Jacqueline Rutter: Four charged with murder of gran shot dead in own home

Jacqueline Rutter, 53, was fatally shot in the chest in Moreton, Merseyside in October 2022 and now police have confirmed four men have been charged with her murder

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6 d. ago John Lennon's son Sean shares rare insight into his father and mother Yoko Ono's 'extremely co

The musician, 49, was just five-years-old when his father was tragically shot dead shot dead by Mark Chapman outside his New York apartment in December 1980.

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6 d. ago Mum's chilling three words to police after shooting her three children while driving home

Diane Downs claimed a "bushy-haired stranger" had flagged her down and opened fire on her and her three children, one of whom tragically died

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7 d. ago Rami Malek is a deeply uncool spy in the pleasingly silly The Amateur

This Disney thriller is shot like a car ad and fully leans into the ‘beautiful dead wife’ trope – yet somehow ‘The Amateur’ gets away with its cliches

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7 d. ago The Amateur casts Rami Malek as a tech nerd who wants to save the world rather than destroy it – and it’s pleasingly silly

This Disney thriller is shot like a car ad and fully leans into the ‘beautiful dead wife’ trope – yet somehow ‘The Amateur’ gets away with its cliches

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7 d. ago Mum suspected former UK Prime Minister was haunting her shop but experts had more terrifying theory

"It's now affecting my seven-year-old daughter. She's told me, 'Mummy, there's a man in my bedroom!' I don't know how to protect my children - where does it end?"

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7 d. ago Mum suspected former Welsh Prime Minister was haunting her shop but experts had more terrifying theory

"It's now affecting my seven-year-old daughter. She's told me, 'Mummy, there's a man in my bedroom!' I don't know how to protect my children - where does it end?"

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8 d. ago Dangerous dog on the loose for days after attacking officer shot dead by police

Police shot dead the American Bully, which had mauled one of their officers, on Monday evening after spending hours attempting to safely capture the dangerous dog

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8 d. ago Man shot dead in 'shocking' attack named as dad with 'heart of gold'

The father was shot inside a house before emergency services rushed to the scene - although medics were unable to save his life despite their best attempts.

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