13 h. ago Muhammad Yunus on picking up the pieces in Bangladesh after ‘monumental’ damage by Sheikh Hasina’s rule

Yunus is facing a huge security challenge as some police refuse to return to their posts, gang crime is rife and tensions simmer with the country’s army chiefWhen Muhammad Yunus flew back to Bangladesh in August, he was greeted by bleak scenes. The streets were still slick with blood, and the bodies of more than 1,000 protesters and children were piled up in morgues, riddled with bullets fired by police.Sheikh Hasina had just been toppled by a student-led revolution after 15 years of authoritarian rule. She fled the country in a helicopter as civilians, seeking revenge for her atrocities, ransacked her residence. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Car thief led police on 70mph chase then got arrested while doing the dishes

This is the moment Dominic Baker was nicked

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4 d. ago Amazon delivery driver killed 'when thief tried to steal van and smashed into parked car'

Claudiu Carol-Kondor, 42, died while trying to stop Mark Ross, 32, stealing his van while he was delivering parcels for Amazon in Leeds on August 20 of last year

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5 d. ago Delivery driver killed ‘when thief hit parked car to stop him hanging onto van’

Claudiu Carol-Kondor, 42, died while trying to stop Mark Ross, 32, stealing his van while he was delivering parcels for Amazon

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5 d. ago Cheerleading competition descends into chaos as brawl between parents leaves 10 injured

A massive brawl between parents watching their children compete at the NCA All-Star National Championship over the weekend led to 10 people being injured and a large police presence. 

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8 d. ago Unmasking the spy cops: how women found the truth about men who tricked them into relationships

Credit cards, passports and ingenuity led to the identities of undercover police who were loved under false pretencesAt least 25 ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of publicThe spy cops who deceived women into sexual relationsHelen Steel was in her 20s and deeply in love with a man who told her he would “like to spend the rest of his life” with her.She and John Barker had just moved into a new flat and would share long walks in the countryside, where they hoped to one day buy a cottage using money he had inherited. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Cops stunned as man eating Chinese takeaway walks into station to confess to 'worst thing'

Mark Donovan's confession to police in Ilford, east London, led to Essex Police's grim discovery of Elise Mason's body - and a complex investigation followed

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1 week ago Man dead following serious assault in Dungannon, police launch major search operation

A man has died following a serious assault in Dungannon, County Tyrone, police have said, as specialist firearms officers led a large-scale search operation in the Dungannon estate

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1 week ago Fred West's chilling confession that led police to 'house of horrors'

Serial Killer Fred West's 'matter of fact' confession to stunned police officers sparked an investigation into the most sickening and depraved crimes in UK history

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2 w. ago German election shows how far green wave has receded in Europe

Result is further evidence that political conversation around the climate crisis has shiftedGerman election live – latest updatesIn the final days of an election campaign dominated by migration, the likely new chancellor of Europe’s biggest polluter sought to assure voters that its economy ministry would not be occupied by NGOs. Instead, conservative lead candidate Friedrich Merz posted on social media that it would be led by “someone who understands that economic policy is more than being a representative for heat pumps”.Climate action barely featured on the campaign trail before Germany’s federal elections on Sunday – except when right-leaning parties used it to swipe at the Greens. Merz’s jab was at the tamer end of attacks aimed at the Green party candidate, Robert Habeck, the economy and climate minister who pushed through an unpopular law to promote clean heating, but is a sign of how far the political conversation around climate action has shifted. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Three people arrested on suspicion of murder after man went missing in 2002

Police said ‘new information’ led them to arrest two men and a woman on suspicion of murdering Robert Scott Clive who disappeared in October 2002.

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2 w. ago How Raneem Oudeh’s death led to change in how police support domestic abuse victims

The murder of a woman and her mother has prompted a change in the law that will domestic abuse specialists embedded in 999 control rooms across some police forces.

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2 w. ago Machete thug's mistake at scene of vicious burglary led police straight to him

A police officer spotted a vital clue in the road

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2 w. ago Political drive to look ‘tough on crime’ behind prison capacity crisis – report

The Independent Sentencing Review said longer jail terms have been a ‘knee jerk’ policy response which has led to an overwhelmed system.

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