11 h. ago Girl, 14, 'left to live alone in filth with dead dog rotting in the wardrobe'

A mum and her partner have been arrested over child abuse after her teenage daughter was allegedly found living alone in a trailer covered in urine and feaces with seven dogs by herself

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11 h. ago BREAKING: Swiss bar owner jailed during investigation into New Year fire that left 40 dead

Swiss bar owner held as authorities investigate New Year fire at Crans-Montana venue that killed multiple people and left others injured

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38 h. ago Three teenagers among four killed in crash between taxi and car in Bolton

A major road in Bolton was closed this morning following a deadly crash in the early hours that left four people dead and five others in hospital. A police cordon remains in place

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52 h. ago US and allies strike Islamic State in Syria after attack that killed three Americans

Military says it targeted the jihadist group throughout Syria in response to attack on US and Syrian troops in PalmyraUS and allied forces carried out “large-scale” strikes against the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria on Saturday, the US military said, in the latest response to an attack last month that left three Americans dead.Washington said a lone gunman from the militant group carried out the 13 December attack in Palmyra, which killed two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter. The area is home to Unesco-listed ancient ruins and was once controlled by jihadist fighters. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago New protests erupt in Iran as supreme leader signals upcoming crackdown

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls protesters ‘vandals’ and ‘saboteurs’ and blames US for instigating the unrestIranians took to the streets in new protests on Friday to press the biggest movement against the Islamic republic in more than three years, as authorities sustained an internet blackout as part of a crackdown that has left dozens dead.Iran’s supreme leader vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of the rapidly growing protest movement, setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Family of inmate found dead in his prison cell say they have been 'left in the dark' for seven months

The family of prisoner Ace Wilson, 25, who was found dead in his cell at HMP Leeds say they have been 'left in the dark' by authorities investigating the incident more than seven months on.

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3 d. ago Bez says his best pal Shaun Ryder was left sick as a 'dead horse' by pneumonia

EXCLUSIVE Happy Mondays legend Bez said he was 'really worried' for his close pal Shaun Ryder', who had to 'soldier on' despite his illness

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3 d. ago Owner of Swiss bar where 40 people died in a New Year's Eve fire has been arrested

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

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3 d. ago Owner of Swiss bar where 40 people died in horror fire on New Year's Eve arrested

Jacques Moretti, 49, had been at liberty since the disaster eight days ago, but Swiss prosecutors on Friday said he was now considered ‘a flight risk’ before a possible trial on a range of charges

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3 d. ago Owners of Swiss bar that caught fire killing 40 in New Year's horror arrive at court

Jacques Moretti and Jessica Moretti of the Le Constellation bar arrived for a hearing at the office of the public prosecutor of the Canton of Valais, in Sion, this morning over a devastating fire

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4 d. ago Salt Lake City Mormon church shooting leaves two dead and six injured in parking lot

A shooting outside a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City, Utah, has left two people dead and at least six more injured, with three in critical condition. Suspects remain outstanding

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5 d. ago US immigration officer fatally shoots Minnesota woman in her car

Federal and local officials offered conflicting accounts of the incident that left one person dead

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5 d. ago ‘It felt like she was asking me to save her’: the film based on a five

The Voice of Hind Rajab has stunned audiences with its use of the real-life audio of a girl’s call for help after her family’s car was attacked by an Israeli tank in Gaza. Its director explains why she had to tell Hind’s tragic storyWhen Kaouther Ben Hania heard Hind Rajab’s voice for the first time, she was in Los Angeles airport scrolling through social media. The five-year-old’s cry for help cut through the clamour around her. This was in February 2024 and Hind had already been dead for at least a week, left to bleed out among the corpses of six of her relatives after their car was targeted by an Israeli tank, leaving it with 335 bullet holes, according to the Forensic Architecture research group.More than 20,000 Palestinian children were killed in two years of Israeli bombardment of Gaza, according to UN estimates. Another 82 have been killed since 10 October when a ceasefire was declared and then routinely breached. The pictures of the dead have often been published online, inc...

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5 d. ago 'I was raped and stabbed by serial killer who left me for dead by my boyfriend's body'

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Holly Dunn was just 21 years old when she was raped and left for dead by serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz next to her boyfriend's body - she bravely survived to tell the tale.

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5 d. ago This, My Second Life by Patrick Charnley review – an astonishing debut of recovery

Drawing on his own near-death experience, the author finds a powerful intensity in this tale of a young man’s convalescence in a Cornish village“I had to pick through the wreckage, blind at first. I had to find all the pieces of me, scattered all around, and put them back together, one by one.” Following a cardiac arrest which left him clinically dead for 40 minutes, Jago Trevarno, the young narrator of Patrick Charnley’s moving debut novel, has retreated to the Cornish village where he grew up, to shelter under the protection of his “off-gridder” uncle, Jacob.His mother dead of cancer and his father long gone, at 20 Jago’s world seems to have shrunk to nothing but the hard daily labour of working a subsistence farm high above the rugged Atlantic coast. The life Jago had begun to construct in the city, “a runaway train” in flight from his mother’s death and everything that reminded him of her, has evaporated abruptly in the aftermath of his near-death experience....

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6 d. ago Thousands left dead or disabled due to shortage of stroke specialists, medics warn

A lack of specialist consultants in NHS hospitals is leaving stroke patients without essential care, experts have warned

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6 d. ago Swiss bar where fatal New Year's fire broke out had last safety inspection in 2019

Local authorities say fire safety inspections hadn’t been carried out for several years at the bar where a fire that broke out at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead and over 100 injured

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7 d. ago 'Porta Potty' adult model shares update after being left for dead with a broken spine

Ukrainian Maria Kovalchuk, 21, was left unable to walk after being found in a coma by the side of the road in Dubai last year and has bravely endured a 10-month recuperation

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8 d. ago OnlyFans model, 21, brutally attacked at Dubai ‘Porta Potty’ party can finally walk again after horror 10

AN ONLYFANS model who was left for dead after being brutally attacked at a suspected "Porta Potty" party in Dubai is finally able to walk again.  Ukrainian Maria Kovalchuk, 21, was brutalised at a sick sex party back in March and suffered a broken spine and leg which required ten major operations to fix. Maria...

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8 d. ago Mother of teenager who died in Swiss bar fire says he ‘has now left to party in paradise’

A Mass was held Sunday for victims of the New Year's Eve fire at a bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, which left 40 dead and many injured

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