24 h. ago Dramatic moment onlookers form human chain to rescue boy trapped in weir

This is the extraordinary moment a boy was rescued from a weir after a group of onlookers formed a human chain in China.

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6 d. ago Scotland wildfires: Dramatic moment wildfires burn near steam train full of passengers

Footage, filmed by a passenger on board a steam train in Scotland, shows crews attempting to extinguish wildfires on a hill next to the track.

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6 d. ago Dramatic moment two Glasgow tower blocks are blown down in double demolition

The pair of 226ft buildings - some of last standing tower blocks in the Gorbals - were brought down using explosives on Sunday afternoon.

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9 d. ago Dramatic moment British woman saved after being lost at sea for five days

A huge search and operation was deployed for missing Brit, Mary Gavin, last Wednesday after she vanished on a rented boat a day before on the island of Formentera near Ibiza

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9 d. ago Moment sword killer tasered by cops after attack that killed schoolboy and injured others

Dramatic police bodycam footage shows the terrifying moment Marcus Arduini Monzo was arrestedfollowing his horrifying attack.

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1 week ago Dramatic moment Hainault sword attacker arrested after murdering schoolboy

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT. Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, launched a 20-minute rampage with a sword in Hainault, north-east London, where he injured five people and killed 14-year-old schoolboy Daniel Anjorin

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1 week ago Video shows the moment huge fire breaks out at Hotspur Press

Dramatic footage shows the moment the city centre landmark became an inferno

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1 week ago Dramatic moment CNN star Anderson Cooper is forced to urgently evacuate set live on air during missile attack

Anderson Cooper was discussing the ongoing conflict when sirens rang out warning them of an incoming missile attack.

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1 week ago Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer

An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary history. Passionate about the theatre, Charles Dickens, then just 20, wrote to the famous Covent Garden theatre actor-manager George Bartley seeking an audition, saying he believed he “had a strong perception of character and oddity, and a natural power of reproducing in my own person what I observed in others”.Bartley responded saying they were producing “the Hunchback” and arranging an appointment. Dickens planned to take his sister, Fanny, to accompany him singing on the piano. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ITV Love Island viewers spot contestant's wardrobe blunder amid hideaway drama

It happened during a dramatic moment

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2 w. ago ITV Love Island viewers distracted by wardrobe blunder following 'cheeky slip'

It came at a very dramatic moment of the ITV2 reality show

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2 w. ago Photos of Karen Read's dramatic courtroom moment after acquittal on murder charge

Karen Read was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. The jury convicted her of a lesser charge of drunken driving, however.

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2 w. ago Dramatic moment six Brits arrested at gunpoint at luxury Thailand villa over 'boiler room' scam

A total of 13 people, including six British citizens, were arrested while at a luxury Thailand mansion, after they were alleged to be associated with a scam known as 'boiler room'

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2 w. ago Did the liberation of Africa start in Manchester? The biting play about a pivotal, forgotten moment

It was a turning point in the push for African independence – and it took place in Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. We meet the writer of a play about the fifth Pan-African CongressOn the facade of the building that once housed Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester sits a plaque commemorating a turning point in the push for African independence. The fifth Pan-African Congress in October 1945 was attended by future global leaders as well as activists and scholars from across Africa and its diaspora. But despite the event’s international importance, it has been largely overlooked by mainstream British history. Now a biting new play is set to remedy this.“I think a lot of Mancunians don’t know it happened,” says playwright Ntombizodwa Nyoni, who lectures in the same building, now part of Manchester Metropolitan University. “But it’s like: you’re part of such a phenomenal moment in history.” Eighty years later, her dramatisation of the event, Liberation, is about to receive its worl...

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2 w. ago Astonishing moment British survivor of Air India plane crash walks BACK towards flaming wreckage to rescue his brother, telling bystander: 'He's burning to death, I have to save him'

This is the dramatic moment the British man who was the miraculous sole survivor of the Air India plane crash attempted to return to the inferno of the accident to save his brother.

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3 w. ago Dramatic moment wing falls off ageing £15m Putin warplane in middle of Ukraine attack mission

The attack jet crashed after flying in a pair over Ukraine's Donetsk region, with the pilot miraculously cheating death by ejecting before his aircraft fell to the ground.

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4 w. ago See the dramatic moment cops charge the accused killer of Pheobe Bishop with her murder at his parents' caravan

James Wood can be seen barefoot wearing grey sweatpants, a chunky silver identity bracelet and a black 'Phantom Menace' t-shirt as cops arrested him.

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