61 m. ago Family of track stabbing victim Austin Metcalf is constantly being ‘swatted’ forcing police to respond

Both of Metcalf’s parents have been swatted since the young man’s death on April 2

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99 m. ago Phone thief caught with blind woman’s handset after being tackled by City of London Beadle is jailed

A ceremonial Beadle was hailed for the dramatic takedown in the City of London.

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1 hour ago 5 loved relics of the tech world that have made a retro comeback as analogue landline phone switch off looms

Here’s five pieces of old technology which have had a resurgence, including boomboxes and instant cameras.

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1 hour ago Calls for inquiry after German police kill black man outside nightclub

Officer suspended after shooting 21-year-old man from behind in Oldenburg in north-west GermanyCivil rights activists in Germany have demanded an independent inquiry into alleged police racism after an officer shot a 21-year-old black man from behind, killing him after an altercation outside a nightclub.The 27-year-old officer has been suspended from duty over the shooting early on Sunday morning in the city of Oldenburg in north-west Germany pending a murder investigation, said state prosecutors. Fatal police shootings are relatively rare in Germany and prosecutors were quoted in local media as saying the suspension and investigation were “routine”. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Teens arrested on suspicion of arson after huge chapel fire in Port Talbot

Significant damage has been caused to the Grade II listed 1880 sub-classical style building. Police investigations are ongoing

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1 hour ago Serving Metropolitan Police officer charged with multiple sexual assault offences spanning five years

PC Joseph Reece will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court next week charged with sexual assault and voyeurism

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2 h. ago Stunned resignation and foreboding: a week in Trump’s shadow at IMF

Few policymakers mention US president by name, but his tariffs dominate IMF-World Bank meetingBusiness live – latest updatesKristalina Georgieva’s favourite film, the International Monetary Fund boss told the audience at a packed panel event in Washington on Thursday, is Tom Hanks’s cold war romp Bridge of Spies.In one of the stranger digressions in a frequently strange week, Georgieva recalled the moment when Hanks’s character, a US lawyer, tells the Soviet spy he has been appointed to defend that he will probably be executed. “You don’t seem alarmed,” Hanks says to him; to which the spy – played by Mark Rylance – replies, “Would it help?” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Man who ordered pizza after stamping on ‘gentle giant’ friend’s head jailed

Caine Lonsdale, 34, has been jailed for a minimum of 15 years for the murder of his friend Jonathan Dittia, 40, in his flat in Nottinghamshire.

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2 h. ago Police issue warning ahead of car cruise event set for Ayr tonight

Previous events have attracted more than 1,000 vehicles, and police are advising that there may be some delays and congestion within the local area.

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2 h. ago Doorman jailed for life for frenzied knife murder of estranged wife

Paul Antony Butler, 53, stabbed university lecturer Claire Chick, 48, in a frenzied attack outside her home in Plymouth in January this year

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2 h. ago Phone thief tackled by Beadle after being caught with blind woman’s phone jailed

A ceremonial Beadle was hailed for the dramatic takedown in the City of London.

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3 h. ago New York beekeeper accused of concealing role in Rwanda genocide

Faustin Nsabumukunzi, 65, is charged with hiding his past when applying for a green card and citizenshipA New York beekeeper who has been in the US for decades has been accused of concealing a leadership role in the genocide in Rwanda in the mid-90s, prosecutors have said in documents.The man told federal agents: “I know I’m finished” when he was arrested on Thursday on charges that he hid his past when he applied for for a green card and US citizenship, according to the prosecution in the case. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Mum's six chilling words to police after killing son with handsaw

Karolina Zurawska, originally from Poland and who had been living at a two-bedroom bungalow in Swansea with her son Alexander.

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4 h. ago Put down your phone! Why boredom can be powerful for our brains

Can boredom boost creativity? We asked experts about the most misunderstood of feelings

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4 h. ago Devout Christian secretly filmed women undressing in mixed gender changing rooms

Married finance manager Richard Halck, 38, would push his mobile phone under the doors and walls of private cubicles at leisure centre in Cheshire to take videos of women.

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4 h. ago Three appear in court over gangland wars in Edinburgh and Glasgow

A total of 20 arrests have now been made by police in connection with the ongoing gangland turf war.

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4 h. ago LIVE: Police tape off major Manchester road following incident

Buses have been stopped on the street

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4 h. ago Knifeman shot dead by police may have called 999 to report ‘man with a gun’

The IOPC said they have taken accounts from the officers involved, gathered a large amount of CCTV from inside and outside the station

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4 h. ago South Korean man arrested for fatally stabbing woman in supermarket

Man smokes cigarette and calls police after stabbing store employee

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4 h. ago Police dismantle 'large operation' after raiding house on leafy Manchester street

Officers were tipped off about suspicious activity

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