53 m. ago Another huge earthquake hits Afghanistan as country reels from 6.0

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday near the epicentre of a powerful quake at the weekend that killed more than 1,400 people

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91 m. ago World's deadliest hurricanes from Katrina to Caribbean storm that killed 27,000

It’s 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the US, killing 1800 people. Now we look back at the disaster – plus some of the other most lethal hurricanes in history

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99 m. ago Trump awards Chicago dubious new ‘World’ title after 54 shot and 7 killed over Labor Day weekend

Chicago is one of many cities with Black mayors that have been targeted by the president

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1 hour ago Arrest of Father Ted creator Graham Linehan over trans posts condemned

Conservative MPs described it as ‘ridiculous’ and accused the police of ‘arresting people for making jokes’.

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2 h. ago British rabbi finds love and gets married again after Hamas gunmen killed his first wife

Emotional wedding as British rabbi gets married again after Hamas gunmen killed his first wife

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2 h. ago Tory leader Kemi Badenoch ridiculed over 'delusional' oil and gas plan

After a speech in which the Conservative leader vowed to reverse the 'impossible ideology of net zero by 2050', she has now been accused of lacking any real policy

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2 h. ago Banish yellow stains from pillows in minutes using 1 natural item

The 'genius' hack uses a natural product and promises to get your pillows looking new again.

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2 h. ago Animal rights activist sobs in court as she is accused of stealing a live crayfish from a tank at a posh seafood restaurant and throwing it into a harbour

Emma Smart, 47, is alleged to have entered the restaurant and shoved a member of staff out of the way before taking the live crayfish from the tank, running outside and dropping it into the sea.

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3 h. ago I’m a gaming writer and I’ve already decided this is my game of the year

The year isn’t over yet, but there’s one game I don’t think will be beaten in 2025

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3 h. ago Jair Bolsonaro faces justice over alleged attempt to usurp Brazilian democracy

Former president in court along with seven others accused of failed power grab after losing 2022 electionBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his allies, including four senior members of the military, have gone on trial for allegedly attempting to stage a coup – the first time in Brazilian history such powerful figures have faced justice for seeking to topple the country’s democracy.Bolsonaro, a paratrooper turned far-right populist who governed from 2019 until 2023, stands accused of masterminding a failed power grab after losing the 2022 election to the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Prison officer shooting UPDATES as killer sentenced for murder over jail affair

Elias Morgan tracked down prisoner officer Lenny Scott after he was released from prison and shot the father of three six times as he was leaving the gym in Skelmersdale, on February 8, last year

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3 h. ago Row review – impressive, largely unknown cast keep seagoing horror afloat

A woman washes up on the Orkney island of Hoy, the only survivor of a transatlantic sortie in Matthew Losasso’s debut feature, a twisty if murky chillerWater, like the human psyche, is unpredictable and full of beasts lurking in the depths, and so it says a lot about our primal fear of the ocean that boat movies often offer threats either under the surface, in the shape of sharks, or psychosis or both. With Row, a smattering of startling jump cuts showing blood splashed around a boat and flashbacks of the protagonist Megan (Bella Dayne, very impressive) screaming, but the viewer needs to wait out a somewhat unreasonably long running time to find out if the antagonists here are biting fish or knife-wielding killers.All we know at first is that Megan is the only survivor of an attempt to break the record for rowing across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to the UK with four crew members, two men and two women. Having washed up on the Orkney island of Hoy, Megan spends most of the film’s...

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3 h. ago Killer church warden who murdered gay lover university lecturer for his inheritance and whose crimes were dramatised in BBC hit the Sixth Commandment gets conviction review

Benjamin Field, 34, of Buckinghamshire is serving life for killing Peter Farquhar, 69, after convincing the retired don he was losing his mind in order to steal his house and money.

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3 h. ago Teenage girl reveals how being wrongly accused of horrific cyberbullying attacks on classmates ruined her life... before real perpetrator was revealed to be victim's mother 

Khloe was a 13-year-old school student in Michigan when her peers became the targets of horrific harassment, according to Unknown Number: The High School Catfish.

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3 h. ago 'African tribe' living in Scots woods confronted by angry neighbours as tensions explode

A Scottish Borders Councillor called for calm from residents after footage was posted on TikTok showing locals confronting the tribe.

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3 h. ago US is 'hiding alien spacecrafts and bodies that have been DNA tested', claims lawyer

Danny Sheehan has made a living in recent years from making bold alien-related claims, and his latest one has thrown a direct accusation at the United States Government

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3 h. ago African nation bans homosexuality with threats of prison terms and fines

It joins over half of Africa’s 54 countries that have laws banning homosexuality

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3 h. ago Putin accuses Europe of spreading 'hysterical horror stories' about a Russian invasion after France and Germany warned of possible attack

Vladimir Putin has today accused Europe of spreading 'hysteria' and 'horror stories', after France and Germany warned of a possible Russian attack.

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4 h. ago North Korean soldiers didn't know they were fighting for Putin as last words revealed

Around 4,000 of the 14,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to the front line to fight for Russia are believed to have been killed in combat but many did not know they were being sent to Ukraine

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4 h. ago Kim Jong Un loses 2,000 North Korean troops killed in Putin's Ukraine war

North Korean despot Kim Jong-Un has sent a devastating number of troops to their deaths on the Ukraine 'meat-grinder' frontline, it has emerged, as he arrives by armoured train in Beijing for an 'anti-NATO summit'

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