30 m. ago One dead after rare tornado topples construction cranes near Paris

The tornado killed one construction worker on a building site, injured 10 others and left four in critical conditionA tornado tore through districts north of Paris on Monday, toppling three construction cranes that killed one person and left four others with critical injuries, authorities said.The town of Ermont, about 20km (13 miles) north-east of Paris was worst hit by the sudden twister that caused damage across about 10 districts. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Paris tornado: One dead and multiple injured as twister blasts through area as cranes toppled

The freak tornado has left one dead and at least nine people injured - including four seriously - after sweeping through an area just a few miles from Paris, sparking a major emergency response

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4 h. ago Paris tornado: One dead and multiple injured as twister blasts through area and topples cranes

The freak tornado has left one dead and at least nine people injured - including four seriously - after sweeping through an area just a few miles from Paris, sparking a major emergency response

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4 h. ago At least one person dead and dozens injured after huge tornado strikes French town

AT LEAST one person has died and dozens injured after an enormous tornado hit a French town. The soaring twister also struck and collapsed three cranes as it tore through Ermont, northern Paris earlier today. Dozens of residents in the Val d'Oise have been evacuated from their homes and are taking shelter at a local...

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4 h. ago At least one person is dead and several seriously injured after tornado rips through city just 10 miles north of Paris

French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said he was monitoring the situation closely, and added several others had been seriously injured as a result of the tornado.

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3 d. ago Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde

After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are weReading the extract from Virginia Giuffre’s tragic memoir in the Guardian this week, I was struck again by the fate of each of those people involved in that infamous photograph taken at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London house.The teenage girl at the centre of the picture is dead, having taken her own life at a remote Australian farmhouse earlier this year, unable to outrun her trauma. The person who took the photograph is dead, having somehow killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. The grinning woman in the background is in prison herself, exalting Donald Trump’s impeccable purity in the hope of getting moved to a nicer jail or even pardoned. And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which...

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6 d. ago 'Magical' hidden away village with ancient church and lush tropical gardens

St Just in Roseland is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, located six miles south of Truro and just north of St Mawes. It is known for its church and subtropical gardens

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7 d. ago The Premier League goalscoring record Erling Haaland is yet to break at Man City

Erling Haaland continues to rip up the record books at Manchester City but there is one goalscoring feat he will have his eyes on.

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1 week ago Tennessee explosives company blast leaves one person dead and at least 19 others missing

Emergency services are currently on the scene at explosives manufacturer Accurate Energetic Systems, in the Bucksnort area.

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1 week ago The 'psychics' exploiting Gus Lamont's disappearance: 'Mediums' take to social media claiming to use their 'gifts' to help search for missing four

August 'Gus' Lamont vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of the remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, nearly 200 miles north of Adelaide .

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1 week ago ‘£20 a night for one of the most peaceful locations in the world’: readers’ favourite remote stays

From the Scottish Highlands to a Greek island, our tipsters have been awed by silence, beauty and wildlife in out-of-the-way corners of Europe• Tell us about a great country pub – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucherI’d recommend visiting the Outer Hebrides island of Berneray for an experience of true remoteness. Here you can walk across the rare grassland called the machair to the white, three-mile long West Beach, which looks out into the North Atlantic, and marvel at the immense space and colour of the sea. We stayed at a Gatliff Hebridean hostel, which consists of two converted crofts where for about £20 a night for a bunk you will be staying in probably one of the most peaceful locations in the world. Berneray is between North Uist and Harris.Nik Fernee Continue reading...

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1 week ago The biggest great white shark ever recorded is heading for popular holiday resort in the US

The 14ft shark, named Contender, and was tagged 45 miles off the Florida-Georgia coast in the North Atlantic by OCEARCH in January - a non-profit that researches large marine animals.

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1 week ago Coatbridge school St Bernard's Primary secures tenth Green Eco

The school hosted a special day to mark the milestone and invited local councillors and representatives from North Lanarkshire Council along to share in the joy.

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2 w. ago Manhunt launched after road worker is assaulted while using a chainsaw to clear trees during Storm Amy

Officers are appealing for information about the incident, which happened while the man was working on the A82 in the Glen Goy area, about a mile and a half north of Spean Bridge in the Highlands.

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2 w. ago Incredible underground labyrinth that runs for miles beneath North Wales

The network of mines, lodes, shafts and natural cave systems extends more than 60 miles under the Flintshire and Denbighshire countryside - and it's a rare sight to see

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2 w. ago Philippines earthquake: dozens dead as rescuers search through wreckage

Rescuers search for casualties in coastal city of Bogo, where power was knocked out and buildings and roads damagedThe death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the central Philippines has risen to 26, authorities said, with fears the toll could rise as rescuers searched for survivors from Tuesday night’s quake which damaged buildings and roads and knocked out power in parts of the region.The epicentre of the earthquake, which was set off by a local fault, was about 17km (10 miles) north-east of Bogo, a coastal city of about 90,000 people in Cebu province where at least 14 residents died, disaster-mitigation officer Rex Ygot told the Associated Press by telephone. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago First victim named in Michigan church shooting was a devoted grandfather and Navy veteran

Five victims suffered non-fatal gunshot wounds during the attack in Grand Blanc Township, about 50 miles north of Detroit

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3 w. ago Stowaway found dead in American Airlines landing gear after transatlantic flight

A person has tragically been found dead in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines plane at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, according to police

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3 w. ago Everything we know on Grand Blanc church shooting as Trump slams 'epidemic of violence'

A mass shooting at a Mormon church that has left the building on fire with at least one person dead, according to police. Here is what we know so far

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3 w. ago 1 person dead and 9 injured in shooting at Michigan church, police say

Police say one person was killed and nine injured in a shooting at a Mormon church in Michigan

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