43 h. ago Basketball star, 22, tragically dies after being hit by train on way to practice as heartbroken club suspends all games

TRIBUTES have been paid to a Spanish basketball player killed after being hit by a train as he headed to team practice. Nicolas Ramirez Perez, 22, was transferred in a critical condition to hospital after the high-speed passenger train with more than 100 people on board struck him at a rural station near the northern...

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56 h. ago Sports star, 22, dies after he was hit by train as league suspends all matches

A basketball player, 22, has been killed when he was hit by an oncoming train while leaving the station - with the league suspending all matches

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7 d. ago Grieving widower, 71, took his own life on railway line weeks after unexpected death of his beloved wife of 40 years

Geoffrey Evans, 71, walked out from his home in Plympton, Devon, late one night in July 2024 and made his way to the tracks near the Plymbridge Road overbridge.

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2 w. ago Metroid Prime 4: Beyond review – Samus Aran is suited up for action again. Was it worth the 18

Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 (version tested); Retro Studios/NintendoThe bounty hunter – Nintendo’s most badass and most neglected hero – returns in an atmospheric throwback sci-fi adventure that’s entirely untroubled by the conventions of modern game designIn a frozen laboratory full of cryogenically suspended experimental life forms, metal boots disturb the frost. A lone bounty hunter in a familiar orange exosuit points her blaster ahead. Making my way towards the facility’s power generator, scanning doors and hunting for secret entrances, broken hatches and hidden keys, I suspect that I know exactly what’s going to happen when this place begins to thaw; every clank and creak sounds sounds as if it could be a long-dormant beast busting out of one of those pods. And yet Samus Aran delves deeper, because she has never been afraid of anything.This section of Prime 4 is classic Metroid: atmospheric, eerie, lonely, dangerous and cryptic. Samus, Nintendo’s coolest hero, is impeccably awesom...

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2 w. ago Heartbroken family of promising footballer, 14, who died after being hit by a train say they will 'miss him forever'

Joshua Travis died on Wednesday evening after being hit by a train on the railway line shortly after 7pm.

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2 w. ago Boy, 14, dies after being hit by train as tributes pour in to 'bright star'

We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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3 w. ago Aston Villa vs Young Boys HALTED as away fans 'launch seats at police' in violent scenes

Aston Villa are currently in Europa League action against Young Boys at Villa Park – but the game had to be temporarily suspended due to crowd trouble

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3 w. ago Aston Villa star struck on head by missile in ugly scenes before game is suspended

Donyell Malen opened the scoring for Aston Villa during their Europa League clash with Young Boys on Thursday evening, before he was struck on the head by a foreign object projected towards him by the away support at Villa Park

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3 w. ago Cristiano Ronaldo has escaped a World Cup ban and no one is surprised

There is no real precedent for Fifa’s decision to suspended the final two games of Ronaldo’s three-game ban but the World Cup was never going to begin without its biggest star, writes Jamie Braidwood

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