37 h. ago Chilling final messages of mother who told her family she was going on holiday

Maureen Slough, from County Cavan, Ireland, travelled alone to Switzerland where she went to a clinic to take her life - and her family have now shared their devastation

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48 h. ago PHOTO ESSAY: Uganda's villages are filling with older people, bringing blessings and burdens

Look closely and you will see them.

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5 d. ago Photographers share the wedding day 'red flags' that could indicate a couple is headed to divorce

Wedding photographers see the good - and the bad - while capturing peoples' big days.

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5 d. ago ‘The surfers were methodical and mesmerising’: Ed Templeton’s best phone picture

The US photographer watched on enviously as young people enjoyed the artificial wave in the centre of MunichEd Templeton had woken up in Zurich, Switzerland, that morning, but by the early afternoon he’d arrived by train in Germany. He was visiting the city of Munich, and after dropping his bags at a central hotel, he walked to the city’s Englischer Garten. “It’s one of the biggest parks in Europe,” he says, and home to the Eisbach river’s famous artificial wave. “The surfers follow unwritten rules based on respect that are fascinating to watch. They line up on either side of the river and take turns. When one surfer falls off the wave and is swept away in the current, another jumps on, and everyone cheers each other on. It’s methodical and quite mesmerising. It takes great skill to jump from the wall into the wave, and manoeuvre back and forth in such a narrow space.”He took this image from a bridge, because “while the banks on either side of the river create a perfect amphitheatre...

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8 d. ago A wedding guest goes wild on the dancefloor Meryl Meisler’s best photograph

‘There’s so much misery and unfairness in the world, but the people I’m attracted to photographing are those who project confidence and joy. And this guy was marvellous’This photograph is named Man in a Three-piece Suit Dancing Within the Circle at a Wedding, Rockville Centre, NY, March 1976. The bride was Elaine Sherman, mother of my friend Rhonda, who I’d known since seventh grade. Mrs Sherman was getting married for the second time and the dancing man was the husband’s son-in-law, though I don’t remember his name or what he was dancing to.As the title says, it’s a circle dance, where people get into the middle and do their thing. And this guy sure did – he was marvellous. I saw him and just grabbed my camera – boom! I was using a pretty wide-angle lens and a head-on flash: I like to have people all lit up, like stage lighting. All the way to the left of the picture is a woman with just part of her face showing – that’s my mom, Sunny, who was friendly with Elaine. I wonder now how...

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8 d. ago Photos show people fleeing flooding in Kashmir after weeks of intense rain in the region

Prolonged monsoon rains this season have badly battered South Asia. Rising waters sent people fleeing from their homes in the Indian-administered Jammu area in Kashmir, which is split between Pakistan and India and claimed by both sides.

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1 week ago Chilling final words from oldest death row inmate seconds before execution

Oscar Frankline Smith, 75, was killed by lethal injection on Thursday, May 22. He had been sentenced to death in July 1990 - after a jury found him guilty of the brutal murders of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons.

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1 week ago Chilling final video of climber feared dead at 23,000ft on mountain with two broken legs

Russian mountaineer Natalia Nagovitsina, 47, has been stuck on Victory Peak in Krgyzstan with a broken leg for nearly two weeks.

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1 week ago KENNEDY: Shame on Serena Williams! She may be starving herself on prescription anorexia drugs. But this putrid stunt proves she's still a greedy beast

Serena Williams's latest partnership, launched with a glossy photo shoot for People magazine, is so repulsive.

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1 week ago 'I’m the only gay in the whole block but that doesn't stop my neighbours'

Michael says one of his neighbours counted more than 100 people stopping to take a photo

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1 week ago Gran's chilling final wish as she waits to be executed by firing squad in Bali

Another British woman has been on death row in Bali for 12 years after being caught trying to smuggle 1.6million worth of cocaine into Indonesia

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1 week ago Trump touts perceived wins while praising ‘healthy, attractive people’ on DC federal patrol photo op

‘ We've done a lot of good work, including the biggest tax cuts that you've ever had,’ Trump said

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2 w. ago People spot 'eerie' detail in 1941 photo and claim it's evidence 'time travel exists'

A historic black and white photograph taken outside a cinema has left people questioning whether time travel is real

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2 w. ago Gruesome photos show the reality of leg lengthening procedures which can see people 'grow' taller by up to 5 INCHES

Photographs have revealed the medieval-sounding procedures that men are undergoing to try and become taller.

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2 w. ago Photos show games, dancing and singing bringing people together in Indonesia

Two men held rubber bands apart at chest height while a woman hopped over them from one side to the other, earning applause and boisterous encouragement from others marveling at her leaps.

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2 w. ago Trying to keep cool in an increasingly hot world – picture essay

The Cooling Solution is a photographic and scientific project that aims to show how people are adapting to high temperatures and increasing humidity across different countries, cultures and socioeconomic conditionsAs temperatures rise around the world, the inequality between those who can afford to stay cool and those forced to suffer is laid ever more bare. For some, air conditioning is a given; for others it is an unaffordable luxury.The photographer Gaia Squarci and researcher Jacopo Crimi visited Brazil, India, Indonesia and Italy to photograph the stories of people in extreme heat and how they are learning to adapt to it. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Chilling final photos of people seconds before being eaten alive by animals

Pensioner Wasim, 80, was bathing in a river near his home in Indonesia when a 10ft reptile pounced and below we look at other animal attacks that were caught on camera

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2 w. ago Haunting last photos of people seconds before animals mauled them to death

Some deaths are worse than others and being mauled by an animal on camera certainly ranks as an unpleasant one and this was the case in recent weeks when a grandad encountered a crocodile

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2 w. ago Anthony Mackie Kisses a Mystery Woman in London: See the PDA

Anthony Mackie Kisses a Mystery Woman in London: See the PDA-Packed Photos  People.com

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3 w. ago Photos of displaced people in Gaza battling stifling amid food and water shortages

Blistering heat deepens suffering for displaced people in Gaza, where thousands are battling shortages of food and water.

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