27 h. ago Love Island All Stars winners Gabby Allen and Casey O'Gorman pack on the PDA as they enjoy London night out after flying back from South Africa

The couple were crowned winners of Love Island: All Stars on Monday night and took home the £50,000 cash prize, and still appear to be going strong outside the villa.

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32 h. ago A gang leader has been shot dead in court in by a gunman disguised as a lawyer

Notorious Sri Lankan gang leader was in court for multiple murder charges when he was shot dead by a gunman and now police are searching for a woman believed to have sneaked the gun in

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35 h. ago Ryan Rickelton’s maiden ODI ton leads South Africa to opening victory

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35 h. ago South Carolina man to be killed in US’s first firing squad execution in 15 years

Brad Sigmon, 67, chooses to be shot dead amid concerns that lethal injections have caused ‘excruciating’ painA South Carolina man on death row has chosen to be killed by firing squad, and if his execution goes forward next month, it would be the first time in 15 years that capital punishment in the US is carried out by gunfire.Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be shot to death on 7 March, part of a spate of rapid killings the state has pursued in the last six months as it revives executions after a 13-year pause. South Carolina now directs those on death row to choose how they will be killed – electric chair, lethal injection or shooting. If they decline to make a selection, the state electrocutes them. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Foreign ministers talk war in Ukraine and other conflicts on last day of G20 meeting in South Africa

Foreign ministers and senior diplomats from leading rich and developing countries focused on global conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war, on the last day of their meeting in South Africa

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38 h. ago Innocent Ashley Dale's boyfriend who was the intended target of a hitman who broke into her home and shot her dead is jailed for five years over drugs plot

Lee Harrison, 27, was previously condemned for his 'repugnant' behaviour which sparked a feud with a rival gang leading to the horrific shooting of Ashley Dale, 28.

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42 h. ago Keir Starmer urged to ramp up defence spending – UK politics live

This is ‘probably one of the most alarming times for Britain’s defence since the second world war’, says Lib Dem leader Ed Davey as he calls for more spendingHello and welcome to our rolling coverage of UK politics.The Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey has said the government must swiftly ramp up defence spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product (GDP).I’ve never known a time like this, it is probably one of the most alarming times for Britain’s defence and security since the second world war, with our closest ally changing their position. So we have to debate it, it is going to be difficult.I don’t think there’s an easy solution, but we have put some ideas on the table. One idea we have put is to increase the digital services taxes, a tax on about 20 multinational companies with turnovers of over £500m and we would raise it from the current 2% to 10%.Foreign secretary David Lammy is in South Africa for the second day of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting.Scottish Labour leader Anas ...

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54 h. ago David Lammy snubbed by Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov at G20

Sergey Lavrov walked out of the G20 meeting in South Africa just before Mr Lammy began his speech

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56 h. ago Valentine's Day pub shooting suspect's body 'seen in water' after wife shot dead

The body of a man suspected to have shot his wife dead on Valentine's Day was spotted in the Thames, police said. Edvard Stockings or Smith is suspected of killing Lisa Smith

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58 h. ago Knockholt pub shooting suspect's body 'seen in water' after wife killed

A man, believed to be the partner of Lisa Smith who was shot dead on Valentines Day near a Kent pub, have seen a body in the River Thames which is believed to be the suspect

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59 h. ago Russia has ‘learned nothing’ from ‘colonial failures and wars’, suggests Lammy

Foreign Secretary David Lammy was speaking at the G20 meeting of foreign ministers in South Africa.

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69 h. ago ‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’: the long

A new Raoul Peck documentary showcases the recently rediscovered work of the photographer who drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and America’s battle for equalityA group of Black men stand naked in a line with their arms up, facing the wall, as they undergo a medical examination before being sent to work in the mines. The image is just one of many by the late Ernest Cole depicting the dehumanisation of Black people during apartheid. Writing for Ebony magazine in 1968, the South African photographer explained how he wanted his work to “show the world what the white South African had done to the Black”. Since the late 1950s, he had been chronicling, up close and in detail, the horrors of racial segregation for publications such as Drum and the New York Times and had become arguably the most significant photographer documenting the country’s oppressive regime.“Ernest’s photos are the first ones that gave us an idea of what apartheid was, from the belly of the beast,” says Ha...

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3 d. ago World's only painting sheep BAAnksy is kidnapped from his art studio

Baanksy followed in the footsteps of his predecessor a painting pig called PIGcasso who taught him to use a brush at an animal sanctuary they shared in South Africa.

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3 d. ago Love Island All Stars return home as finalists put on loved up display back in the UK

Casey O'Gorman and Gabby Allen won Love Island spin-off All Stars on Monday night in its live final and the finalists have now landed back in the UK after leaving South Africa

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3 d. ago #JusticeForRaygun: Outrage erupts after baboon burned to death

Fear of the occult is fuelling cruelty toward baboons, Sandra Swart writes

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3 d. ago Grandmother who fled Zimbabwe and South Africa with her British husband faces deportation after investing all her money in a village butcher's shop

Cheryl Robins, 61, has become a pillar of the Abbotsbury's community since moving to Britain from South Africa in 2022 to live with her husband Mike, who is a UK citizen.

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3 d. ago 5 bombshells from Trump and Musk's Fox News love in – from $250m claim to assassination admission

Elon Musk and Donald Trump sat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity for a cosy interview at the president's former Mar-a-Lago home as they pair fawned over each other in a sycophantic chat

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3 d. ago Love Island: All Stars' Tina Stinnes flashes her abs in a skimpy bralet and has emotional reunion with her dog as first batch of Islanders return to the UK after final

The first batch of Love Island: All Stars contestants returned to the UK on Wednesday morning after flying back to South Africa for Monday's final.

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4 d. ago Maya Jama dances back to her villa in South Africa after drinking a 'bottle of wine' on a solo lunch as she celebrates Love Island All Stars ending

Maya Jama looked happier than ever as she danced back to her villa in South Africa, in a new Instagram video on Tuesday.

Culture

4 d. ago Confession of man who 'shot wife dead' before bridge leap in Valentine's 'murder

A friend of Edvard Stockings, prime suspect in the Valentine's Day shooting, has claimed the accused gunman rang him up with a confession before leaping to his death

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