62 m. ago UN says fuel shortage in Gaza at ‘critical levels’ – Middle East crisis live

A lack of fuel means ‘lifelines will vanish for 2.1 million people’, the UN saidIsraeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including four children, hospital officials said on Saturday, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The four children and two women were among at least 13 people who were killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the area starting late on Friday, officials in Al-Aqsa Martyr’s hospital said.Another four people were killed in strikes near a fuel station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Nasser hospital. The Israeli military said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, troops struck approximately 250 targets in the Gaza Strip, including militants, booby-trapped structures, weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missile launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels and additional Hamas infrastructure sites. Continue reading...

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63 m. ago How Angela Rayner has become the most influential figure in Starmer’s government – for now

The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the deputy prime minister’s influence is unmatched since the welfare rebellion

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65 m. ago Police officer, 44, with nearly 20 years on the force dies suddenly after being arrested for sending sensitive information

PC Claire Browne had previously been arrested following a probe into the sending of sensitive police information from her work email to her personal account. She suddenly died on July 7.

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77 m. ago Man 'beheaded' his mother after 'kneeling on her neck' until she died

Bowen Fladland admitted to killing his 70-year-old mother Marlene in South Dakota before cutting off her head and burying her body in the garden of the home they had been living in

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2 h. ago AUNZ Invitational XV v British & Irish Lions: rugby union – live

Updates from Adelaide Oval; 11am (BST), 7.30pm (ACST)Get in touch: contact Daniel on emailJust a few minutes to go so time enough for me to lambast the AUNZ kit.God I hate it. It’s a four horizontal lines, with gold at the top followed by white, dark green and black at the bottom of the shirt.Good morning Daniel,I’d beg to differ over Farrell jnr.’s right to be in the squad, not least because of George Ford’s superb form of recent months; but what really interests me about today’s team is how much more pace this lineup has compared with the last match. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Voices: I don’t just have ‘normal’ worries about my child starting school – I’m scared she could die

For parents of kids with severe food allergies like mine, the rite of passage that is starting primary school is fraught with very real, very deadly fears that they will come to serious harm – or worse, writes Hannah Fearn

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2 h. ago Inside Home and Away star's harrowing death at 45 after tragic final job

Dieter Brummer was a heartthjsonrob in Australia and the UK after he played Shane in Home and Away - but he had a tragic ending in 2021 after his career fell apart

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2 h. ago Schoolboy found dead in lake named as football team shares emotional tribute

Daniel Drewitt died after getting into difficulty at Sutton Park in Birmingham, with his local football team offering a heartbreaking tribute as police continue investigations

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3 h. ago Superman is super woke? How politics play into the new man of steel

The right has already branded the new DC tentpole too woke after its director called the character an immigrant, but just what role do real-world issues play in the film?Superman Woke! Variations on that headline splashed across all manner of non-Daily Planet websites this week in advance of a new Superman movie reboot, specifically the comments of writer-director James Gunn, who casually characterized the character as an immigrant and, as such, telling the “story of America” in an interview. This rankled rightwingers including the former TV Superman Dean Cain, who acknowledged Superman as an immigrant but blanched at the idea of actively associating that as an American value, noting that “there have to be limits”.Meanwhile, the former Trump lackey Kellyanne Conway, now a Fox News host, characterized the movie she hasn’t seen as an ideological lecture, and added her supposed anger that the movie’s star, David Corenswet, elided the old “truth, justice and the American way” Superman s...

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3 h. ago What happened to Gladiator David McIntosh: Love rat who dated a string of reality stars and said that women couldn't resist his 'abs and good jawline' had a VERY bitter break

The fitness fanatic became something of a household name, albeit for the wrong reasons, after embarking on a tumultuous relationship with Kelly Brook in 2013.

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3 h. ago 'Laos shots killed my best friend and I almost died too, we had no idea what was wrong'

Bethany Clarke, 27, and her best friend Simone White, 28, met in Laos, Southeast Asia, for the trip of a lifetime, but after consuming vodka shots that are thought to have been tainted with methanol, it ended in tragedy

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3 h. ago Revealed: How a fear of looking like 'Mr Beckham' led to a stint in hospital for Prince Philip

For many Brits growing up in the 2000s and 2010s there wasn't a couple more idolised than David and Victoria Beckham .

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4 h. ago Boeing settles with a man whose family died in a 737 Max crash

Paul Njoroge’s wife and three children were killed in a deadly 2019 plane crash in Ethiopia

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4 h. ago Former WWE star dies in horror shooting near busy major road

Fans and wrestling organisations have been sharing tributes online for a former WWE star that was found 'bleeding from his abdomen' before being rushed to hospital

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4 h. ago Man 'beheaded' his own mum after 'kneeling on her neck until she died'

Bowen Fladland, 34, is accused of cutting off his 70-year-old mother Marlene's head before burying her body in the front garden following previous attacks at the family home

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5 h. ago Noel Gallagher's heartfelt tribute to Caroline Aherne during Manchester Oasis show

The Oasis star dedicated a song to the late The Royle Family actress who died in 2016

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6 h. ago How being crushed by a 14,000lb snowplough made Jeremy Renner a nicer person: ‘I’ve never been more vulnerable, open and loving’

He was known as a tightly wound Hollywood tough guy, on and off screen – and then the star found himself fighting for his life. He talks about ‘bullying his body’ into recovery, and how the accident changed himSix ribs broken in 14 places. Three breaks in the lower pelvis. Right and left ankle broken. Left tibia broken. Left wrist fractured. Left toes, three breaks. Right clavicle broken. Right shoulder blade cracked. Eye socket, jaw, mandible, all broken. Major laceration back of head. Lung collapsed. Liver pierced from rib bone. The inventory of Jeremy Renner’s injuries, documented by the twice Oscar-nominated movie star himself, was exhaustive. It was a miracle that the actor had survived; he had no right to. Renner had been crushed by his own 14,000lb (6,350kg) snowplough on New Year’s Day 2023. A neighbour who helped him at the scene believes he died momentarily. So does Renner. He tells me it was a very special moment.“What I experienced when I passed ...

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7 h. ago Home and Away star tragically died at 45 after devastating work struggle

Dieter Brummer, who played Shane Parrish in Home and Away, was a huge soap icon when he became famous in the 1990s - but struggled with fame and met a tragic end

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8 h. ago David Gergen, adviser to Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, dies at 83

The late former Republican adviser slammed Trump in 2021, calling him ‘a bully — mean, nasty and disrespectful of anyone in his way’

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10 h. ago Superman's American football collection drops as James Gunn film hits cinemas

James Gunn's Superman reboot has finally landed in cinemas, with David Corenswet starring as the eponymous Man of Steel

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