85 m. ago Nazi guards shot prisoners for fun at Channel Islands camp, research says

SS troops killed inmates for target practice, according to account given in documentary Ghosts of AlderneyGuards at a prison camp on one of the Channel Islands entertained themselves at weekends by using prisoners for target practice, according to new evidence of Nazi atrocities committed there in the second world war.On Sundays, the SS would regularly pick about a dozen men incarcerated in Sylt, the camp they ran on Alderney, transporting them to a nearby light-gauge railway, where they tied them to tipper trucks and amused themselves by shooting them. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago In Spain, a chat on the doorstep is a custom worth preserving in the digital age | María Ramírez

It’s great to see so much support for the value of ‘taking the breeze’ – the authorities must respect public space tooThe mayor of a small town in southern Spain felt compelled, a few days ago, to clarify that there is no new municipal ban on older women sitting out on the pavement in their own chairs. He was responding to a furious online backlash directed mostly at the town’s police after they posted a message on social media urging the residents of Santa Fe to show “civility” by not sitting in the streets in the late hours disturbing neighbours.This plea for respect for the public space was hardly a draconian law and order crackdown: it was a reasonably worded reminder. “We know that putting chairs or tables outside the door is a tradition in many towns,” it said, “but public spaces are regulated. If the police ask you to remove them, do so out of respect and in the interests of coexistence.”María Ramírez is a journalist and the deputy managing editor of elDiario.es, a news outle...

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3 h. ago Ryanair, easyJet TUI and Jet2 passengers among those to face new 4 hour rule

In a huge blow to Brits, EU countries have green-lighted controversial plans to lengthen the wait time before delayed passengers can claim compensation for both short and long-haul journeys

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6 h. ago Disturbing tragedy of dog owner who died with dachshunds as car plummets 300ft off cliff

Lynn King and her husband John died instantly when their silver Ford Mondeo, which also contained their two Dachshund dogs, plunged off a cliff at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight

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10 h. ago New Madeleine McCann documentary uncovers chilling evidence linked to suspect Christian Brueckner

A chilling new documentary has unearthed disturbing evidence linked to Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner — including children’s items, a damning hard drive, and a story describing a girl “not older than five.”

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13 h. ago Children's football coach caught on M4 with drug haul worth thousands

'You put your employment in jeopardy, and your family life - that's how much of a fool you have been'

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16 h. ago 'After taking Mounjaro, my life fell apart': Women reveal disturbing side effects from jab that started within days

In the UK, anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia are not listed as possible side-effects for Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro.

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18 h. ago Woman finds expensive designer sandals in charity shop and is floored by price

A woman has shared her charity shop haul after going 'shopping in rich areas' and finding a pair of designer sandals that were being sold for over £1,000 online

Economics

18 h. ago Neville Chamberlain's naive words of optimism six days before WWII began

The beleaguered British prime minister pursued an appeasement policy with Nazi Germany in a bid to prevent an escalation into a global conflict.

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21 h. ago The heroic final words of the Mormon boy beheaded by the Nazis for brave defiance

On October 27, 1942, the beheading of 17-year-old boy Helmuth Hübener, who was a Mormon, took place. He had committed the 'crime' of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

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37 h. ago Adolf Hitler's bigamist brother's womanising legacy in Britain revealed... and the UK street that is horrified at becoming a Nazi shrine

With convictions for theft as a young man, Alois Hitler left Austria and his bullying father for Ireland where he met and married an Irish teenager by the name of Bridget Dowling

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37 h. ago Minister slams 'disturbing' and 'disgusting' online chat rooms exposed by the Manchester Evening News

He vowed to 'go after' these sickening online spaces

Politics

38 h. ago Disturbing secret history of woke LA mayor Karen Bass resurfaces amid immigration riots

Los Angeles' Mayor Karen Bass has been thrown into the hot seat yet again over her disturbing secret past as chaotic immigration riots rage on in the Democratic city.

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39 h. ago Woman chokes dog until it's left wheezing in video 'too disturbing to watch'

A woman in Ohio, US, has been arrested and charged with animal cruelty and domestic violence after a disturbing video of her allegedly attacking her boyfriend and a dog circulated on social media

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45 h. ago The Potato Eaters review – a descent from visceral dread into full

Lazzaretto Vecchio, VeniceOn the site of a hospital for leprosy patients, audience members are invited to wander in near darkness among twitching body bags into a choreographed scene of ritualised tyrannyThere are strong Death in Venice vibes to the setting of Romeo Castellucci’s site specific production at the Venice Biennale Teatro. The show, by the Italian writer-director and his company, inhabits its own island – a long, lizard-like colony. The audience boards a shuttle and skims across the water to arrive at a building that was once a lazaretto – a hospital for leprosy patients. Associations with fatal infection and social isolation are chillingly resonance of the Covid pandemic. But as you wander into this disturbing promenade piece, things turn chilly in more ways than one.The building’s interior is stripped of its skin so that its brick and rafters lie bare, and there is a low electronic rumble of sound along its corridors which is as disquieting as the near darkness. Window...

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47 h. ago Looted from Syria, sold on Facebook: antiquities smuggling surges after fall of Assad

Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rushThey come by night. Armed with pickaxes, shovels and jackhammers, looters disturb the dead. Under the cover of darkness, men exhume graves buried more than 2,000 years ago in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, searching for treasure.By day, the destruction caused by grave robbers is apparent. Three-metre-deep holes mar the landscape of Palmyra, where ancient burial crypts lure people with the promise of funerary gold and ancient artefacts that fetch thousands of dollars. Continue reading...

Culture

47 h. ago Joanna Dennehy's twisted henchmen: Female serial killer had two 'nodding dog' devoted followers plan murders, dump bodies and hide her in their homes but where are they now?

A tall but overweight man wearing scruffy clothes lifts up his shirt provocatively and stares gormlessly into the camera as he poses on the balcony of a suburban council block.

Events

48 h. ago Shocking rise of 'Ozempic HANDS': New disturbing side effect of weight

One video which honed in on the hands of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian had some users commenting that the stars have hands like those of a 'vampire' or 'Nosferatu'.

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63 h. ago Riot cops storm Glasgow city centre streets as man arrested amid 'disturbance'

Pictures show a heavy police presence hours after emergency services were called to Kent Road, near St Vincent Street, around 4.45am on Saturday.

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67 h. ago Glasgow city centre streets locked down for six hours as man arrested over 'disturbance'

Officers were called to the scene near St Vincent Street at around 4.45am on Saturday.

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