8 h. ago 'Controlling' husband attempted to kill wife by setting fire to her home as she slept, trial hears

Nicholas Martin, 63, denies attempted murder

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4 d. ago Horror as passenger sets himself on fire at airport after argument with wife

A video circulating on social media shows the man setting fire to himself in the terminal of Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan after arguing with his wife over the phone

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7 d. ago Grim details emerge about Erin Patterson's isolated prison life

Patterson, 50, was found guilty of poisoning three of her in-laws - and attempting to kill another - with a lunch laced with death cap mushrooms in July 2023.

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1 week ago Trial date set for Reform councillor charged with threatening to kill his wife

Kent county councillor Daniel Taylor, 35, for Cliftonville, near Margate had the Reform party whip removed after his arrest in June.

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2 w. ago US state breaks execution record as date set for man who brutally slaughtered wife's family

David Pittman, 63, is set to be executed on September 17, after being convicted of brutally murdering his estranged wife's sister and her parents in 1990

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2 w. ago Man who sold family home to HS2 for £1.2m discovers it was being used as cannabis farm

Alan Wilkinson, 85, bought Ravenswood in Staffordshire during the late 1970s and settled there with his wife Gillian but moved out when HS2 planned to build a tunnel under his hillside village.

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2 w. ago Execution date set for Florida man who killed estranged wife's sister and parents, set fire to house

A Florida man who fatally stabbed his estranged wife’s sister and parents and then set fire to their house is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

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2 w. ago ‘We’re in a healthy relationship!’ Alison Brie and Dave Franco on gruesome body horror Together

Best known for comic roles, the couple talk about how they parlayed their marriage into a sweaty nightmare of a film – and what it’s like to share their love in publicDave Franco is showing me his wounds: a bloody finger, a grazed foot, a palm full of blisters. On his phone, the actor zooms in on the photo collage he has compiled of the worst injuries he sustained on the set of Together, the romance-horror he stars in alongside his wife, Alison Brie. She is not to be outdone. In one scene, Brie’s character is propelled against a glass door by a mysterious force. During filming, it seemed as if her stunt double was walking up to the door “very slowly. I felt like it was not landing the beat,” says the actor. “I said: ‘Let me just do it.’ And that’s what’s in the movie, me running and slamming into the glass. Then, of course, I had a little bruise on my nose that we had to cover with makeup.”Franco and Brie were clearly willing to throw themselves – literally – into the hugely en...

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3 w. ago 'Surprisingly poor' John Cleese, 85, is set to buy a house in Bath with his fourth wife

The Monty Python star has lived in Monaco in the past, and more recently in Nevis in the Caribbean, where there's no income tax. Pictured: File photo of the Royal Crescent in Bath

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3 w. ago What the jury wasn't allowed to hear in the Erin Patterson trial: suspicions and mystery illnesses

Material and claims the jury in Australia’s mushroom lunch murder trial wasn’t allowed to hear can be reported after a suppression order was liftedFive key moments in the murder trial of Australia’s mushroom lunch cookErin Patterson’s hospital visit – and what the beef wellingtons really looked like: mushroom murder exhibits revealedSimon Patterson told his father, Don, and other family members that he suspected his estranged wife, Erin Patterson, had been trying to poison him before she invited his parents and his aunt and uncle to a fatal beef wellington lunch, according to evidence heard in a pre-trial hearing.One argument heard in court, but not able to be revealed to the jury in Erin Patterson’s triple murder trial, involved police suspicions that she might have previously used rat poison in an alleged attempt to kill Simon.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew bombshell claims from 'sex crazed hotel nights' to Prince William's 'plans' to evict him

A revealing new royal book exploring the lives of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, is set to be released, featuring a number of shocking allegations

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew bombshell claims from 'sex crazed hotel nights to William's outrage'

An explosive new royal book delving into the life of Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson is set to hit the shelves, and it contains some shocking allegations

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3 w. ago Moment Virgin Atlantic passenger threatens to 'gang rape and set alight' stewardess in vile tirade in front of his wife and three children

Salman Iftikhar, 37, was staying in first class with his wife and three children when he unleashed a vile tirade on Angie Walsh at 39,000 feet during a flight from London Heathrow to Lahore.

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4 w. ago Lucy Letby evidence 'deeply disturbing' and 'flawed', experts claim in TV doc

Letby was found guilty of murdering seven new born babies and attempting to kill seven others

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