2 h. ago Uber driver sexually assaulted student after driving her home

Amanuale Mebrahtu, 28, went on to sexually assault another woman after offering her a piggy back down some stairs

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9 h. ago Cameron Norrie suffers heartbreaking defeat to Learner Tien to miss out on Metz title

Norrie led 6-1 in the tiebreak but let victory slip as teenager Tien won his first ATP Tour title

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9 h. ago The moment I knew: when we reunited in our 60s, it felt like coming home

Lynne Besant met Paul as a teenager. After 40 years apart, she discovered she still had feelings for himFind more stories from the moment I knew seriesIn the mid-60s, my family followed my father’s work to a caravan park in Gladstone, central Queensland. He worked in construction and the sprawling transient accommodation for the hundreds of families who’d relocated to build an aluminium plant became our home. I was going on 16 and sulking about having to change schools, again. Then I met Paul.Back in those days people made their own fun. We often had huge parties at the caravan park, and Paul, an apprentice electrician, would volunteer to rig up the lighting. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Teenager critical after shooting that saw locals mistake gunshots for fireworks

The 19-year-old was shot in the leg and back and remains in critical condition

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10 h. ago Mega Millions jackpot inches toward $1 billion after no winners in latest drawing

The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are 1 in 290,472,336

Economics

11 h. ago Schoolboy, 15, in serious but stable condition after being stabbed in street

A teenage was taken to hospital after being stabbed in a Merseyside village on Friday

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11 h. ago Normal but high blood pressure in younger people ‘may raise heart attack risk’

A study found that high blood pressure was linked to reduced blood flow to the heart at age 77.

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13 h. ago Gunshots 'mistaken for fireworks' as teen gunned down and locals hear 'bang, bang, bang'

A teenager was shot in the leg and back in Huyton last night and remains in hospital in a critical condition - a large police cordon was put in place on the street this morning

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14 h. ago Yes, you do need to clean your water bottle. Here's why and how

Reusable bottles get grubby no matter what liquid they’re filled with, so it’s important to clean them regularly

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14 h. ago My life was dominated by unbelievable levels of pain, then my doctor suggested I took medical cannabis

Retired school teacher Steven Griffiths described how his life 'felt impossible' until he discovered the new way of dealing with his day-to-day pain

Science

16 h. ago A year after devastating Trump loss, have the Democrats begun to find their way back?

Party was shell-shocked after 2024 defeat but Tuesday night’s coast-to-coast romp signals brighter times aheadIt has been a year of soul-searching, hand-wringing, and self-flagellation for Democrats after a ballot-box rejection so thorough that some had come to believe that the party had lost not only the White House and Congress but the culture itself.Shell-shocked, Democrats entered Donald Trump’s second term in a political stupor – unsure of who they were or what they stood for. Their base had lost faith in its aging leadership class, and their brand, in Democrats’ own words, had become “toxic”: a party increasingly confined to coastal states, big cities and college towns. And even there, warning signs were flashing. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago ‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her

Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. How did the system we trusted – and I worked for as a GP – fail us so tragically?I remember so clearly the moment it dawned on me that the mental health ward where my teenage daughter was being treated felt like little more than a prison. Ruth had been so trusting. So had we. That all changed the day she was moved from our local hospital to Thames Ward at Huntercombe hospital in Berkshire. When we left, she walked so easily down to the hospital transport with me and the play therapist – who hugged her tight and waved goodbye. When the van door opened at the other end, the stark building loomed over us. We were met and escorted up a flight of stairs and through the double, air-locked, doors, one slamming closed behind us, the person with the keys waiting for the first lock to click before ...

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16 h. ago As Kim Kardashian's All's Fair BOMBS with 0% Rotten Tomatoes score, the other series that flopped with the lowest score imaginable for their small screen debuts

Kim Kardashian might be a big name on reality TV , but her latest attempt at acting has been met with almost universal hatred.

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17 h. ago Where is the Gaza ‘peace process’ really going? | Ahmad Ibsais

Israel turns the violence up and down at will, maintaining full dominion over Gaza and the West Bank, then calls each pause a generous ‘ceasefire’If you started attending one funeral a day beginning 1 January 2025, you would finish in the year 3887. That is how long it would take to mourn every life lost in Gaza. By then, your grandchildren’s great10 grandchildren would be dust, and still you would be burying Palestinian bodies from a “war” Israel insists was about self-defense. Even then, this number does not tell you about the thousands of ways these bodies were burned, torn, crushed and made anything but whole.And yet here we are, watching world leaders gather in Egypt for a “peace summit” last month where the only people absent were Palestinians. The banner read “Peace 2025”, while Palestine’s representatives were barred from the room.Ahmad Ibsais is a first generation Palestinian American, law student and poet who writes the newsletter State of Siege Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Teenage driver's heartbreaking words after realising he'd killed best friend in crash

Corey Owen Cooper was jailed for five for the horror crash which came the day after he passed his test.

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17 h. ago Man with ‘world’s biggest willy' says women are 'scared' of his massive member

Matt Barr, 41, reported to have the “world’s biggest willy” at 14.5 inches, says his record-breaking manhood brings floods of female attention and wild assumptions

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17 h. ago Teenager fighting for life after being shot as police declare 'major incident'

The victim, aged 19, was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital, where he remains in a critical condition - he had been shot outside a property on the street

Events

18 h. ago Two young girls 'seriously' sexually assaulted in park as major hunt launched

Two teenaged girls were 'seriously' sexually assaulted on Halloween night in Derbyshire, prompting police to appeal to the public to help them catch the suspect

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18 h. ago Caught up in a violent attack, would you be a hero – or would you run? Both can be valuable | Emma Kavanagh

Last weekend’s Cambridgeshire train attack brought up a question that we often ask ourselves. But the answer isn’t simple Emma Kavanagh is a psychologist who has worked for the police and the militaryThe devastating attack on train passengers in Cambridgeshire last weekend was shocking. There has been talk of heroes who risked their lives to help others, and of those who hid to save their lives. If you are anything like me, you will be asking yourself: what if that were me? How would I cope? And just who would I turn out to be when the worst happens?Some of us imagine that we would vault to the rescue, fighting off attackers. Others, perhaps the more realistic among us, anticipate flight, extricating ourselves from the situation as quickly and efficiently as possible. Most of us would like to think that we would stay our urge to run, lingering long enough to offer aid to those in need.Emma Kavanagh is a psychologist who worked for many years for the police and military. Her books in...

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19 h. ago Man, 19, fighting for life after being shot in back and leg on residential street in Huyton

A TEENAGER is fighting for his life after he was shot repeatedly in a horror attack on a residential street. Emergency crews were scrambled to an address in Huyton, Merseyside, after the teen was shot in his back and leg last night. Chief Inspector Andy Hughes said: “We are still in the very early stages...

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