34 m. ago Mum accused of killing baby by 'burning her to death' with hair dryer

Courtney Gartshore appeared for a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.

Events

37 m. ago ‘Kept fighting despite the odds’: the Russian journalists who risked everything to report the truth

In an expansive five-hour documentary, young journalists are branded ‘foreign agents’ for continuing to report independently as authoritarianism spreadsIn the fall of 2021, the director Julia Loktev traveled from her Brooklyn home to Moscow, with the intent to film some friends under pressure. That summer, the Russian government had cracked down on the remaining independent media in the country, designating outlets and journalists it found irksome as “foreign agents”. Loktev, who moved to the US from the Soviet Union at age nine, had several journalist friends now required to submit detailed financial reports to the government and affix an all-caps disclaimer to any output, be it an article or an Instagram post of their cat, declaring it the work of a foreign agent.Loktev began shadowing her friend Anna Nemzer, a host on the country’s only remaining independent news channel, TV Rain (Dozhd, in Russian), which was on the growing list of “foreign agents” meant to chill any press criti...

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97 m. ago Strictly Come Dancing’s Nadiya Bychkova shares health update after being rushed to hospital

‘I’ll be back on that dancefloor tomorrow,’ professional dancer told fans

Science

1 hour ago Heartbeat star becomes frontrunner to lead Death in Paradise

Death in Paradise is getting a spin-off in the form of Death in Benidorm, which will see a UK detective move overseas in a bid to escape the chaos of his career

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2 h. ago Reality star's body 'shut down' in near death experience on grim challenge show

Netflix's new docuseries, Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the popular reality TV competition that aired for 18 seasons from 2004 to 2016

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2 h. ago Heartbeat legend favourite to play lead detective in Death in Paradise

Earlier this year, Channel 5 bosses announced a new series titled Death in Benidorm

Events

2 h. 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

Culture

3 h. ago Darius Danesh's Hollywood ex's message after star died refusing operation

Darius Danesh's ex-wife Natasha Henstridge has paid tribute to the late Pop Idol star on the third anniversary of his death, after his girlfriend Lauren Cheek opened up on his tragic passing

Events

3 h. ago Three women charged over newborn’s death in female genital mutilation case

The UN estimates that about 75 per cent of women in Gambia have been subjected to the procedure known as FGM

Events

3 h. 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

Events

3 h. ago 'I struggled to eat sandwich at work and now have six months to live'

EXCLUSIVE: A dad who has been fighting for his life after a 35cm tumour was found in his food pipe on Christmas Eve has stopped treatment and has been told his death is imminent

Politics

4 h. ago Boy arrested on suspicion of rape and murder after death of girl, 13

The girl's death is being treated as 'unexplained', police say

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5 h. ago At least 56 feared dead after flash flood devastates remote Himalayan village

Race against time to save 80 people still missing after flood sweeps away dozens of cars and motorbikes

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6 h. ago Major police update after teen vanished on holiday and sent mum chilling text

Giovanni Pelletier, 18, was found dead in a Florida pond a week after he went missing, following a family vacation during which he allegedly smoked marijuana with cousins

Events

8 h. ago Worker 'beats colleague to death and "eats his brain" on first day in job'

The brutal killing took place on August 12 at Fazenda Baixinha, a rural property in Ilheus, in the far south of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

Events

9 h. ago Death row killer gouges out both his own eyes and eats them in bid to avoid execution

Andre Thomas, 39, was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murders of his estranged wife and her two children. His execution was postponed after he gouged out his eyes

Events

9 h. ago Celebs Go Dating star Jon Lee breaks down in tears as he reveals his mother feared he was dead after S Club 7 singer 'went missing' for two years

Jon Lee has recalled going 'completely off the rails' as he emotionally opened up about his father's tragic death on Celebs Go Dating on Thursday. 

Events

9 h. ago Jeremy Paxman's brother leaves staggering fortune to family after his death aged 73

The former UK ambassador to Mexico and Spain died of lung cancer in March, aged 73.

Events

9 h. ago India and Pakistan tensions spill over into contest over whose flagpole is bigger

Nationalist rivalries are on show at border crossing where soldiers in elaborate uniforms perform flag ceremonies each nightAt a remote, monsoon-soaked border checkpoint, Indian soldiers will mark Independence Day by raising the country’s tricolour on a mast that towers above a Pakistani flag flying just across the frontier – part of an ongoing vertical duel in South Asia’s fraught politics.Call it flag warfare: a contest not of weapons but of height, waged by two nuclear-armed neighbours that only three months ago fought a four-day battle which threatened to escalate into full-scale war. Continue reading...

Events

11 h. ago Former Paisley MP Willie Gallacher's death marked by bookshop display tribute

Abbey Books in the town produced the showcase in memory of one of Paisley's most famous politicians.

Economics