3 h. ago Eight people killed in avalanches in Austrian Alps as rescuers urge skiers to heed warnings

Three Czech skiers swept away in Murtal district while five killed in Pongau area near SalzburgAn avalanche killed three Czech skiers in central Austria, police said, bringing the total to eight killed in the country’s Alps on Saturday.Avalanches across the Alps have claimed victims since last week after heavy snowfall. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Rampaging elephant which has killed 22 people still on the loose: Terrified Indian villagers forced to sleep on rooftops or abandon their homes for fear it might return

The young male, which has one tusk, is still at large in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, around 730 miles east of the Indian capital Delhi.

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10 h. ago Five skiers die in two avalanches: Snow slide kills woman before four others are swept away just 90 minutes later

An off-piste avalanche struck a group of seven skiers in Austria in the Pongau area, killing four people - around 90 minutes after a female skier died in the nearby ski resort of Bad Hofgasteid.

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10 h. ago Massive fire engulfs dozens of shops at a shopping mall in southern Pakistan, killing 3 people

Rescue officials say a massive fire has swept through a multistory shopping mall in Pakistan’s largest southern city of Karachi, killing at least three people and injuring several others

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15 h. ago Ali Khamenei says thousands killed in Iran protests, some in ‘inhuman, savage manner’

Supreme leader blames US for death toll and calls Donald Trump a criminal for support of demonstrationsThe Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has acknowledged for the first time that thousands of people were killed during the protests that rocked Iran over the last two weeks.In a speech on Thursday, Khamenei said that thousands of people had been killed, “some in an inhuman, savage manner”, and blamed the US for the death toll. The supreme leader railed against Trump, whom he called a “criminal” for his support of demonstrations, and called for strict punishment of protesters. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Drunk driver gets 24 years to life in prison for killing 4 people at July 4 barbecue in NYC park

A drunk driver has been sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for killing four people at a Fourth of July picnic in New York City

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38 h. ago Ugandan opposition MP says security forces stormed home killing 10 people

Muwanga Kivumbi says campaign staff shot dead after elections expected to extend President Yoweri Museveni’s ruleA senior member of the Ugandan opposition has said security forces stormed his house early on Friday morning and shot dead 10 members of his campaign team after a general election that was expected to result in President Yoweri Museveni extending his nearly four-decade grip on power.Muwanga Kivumbi, of the National Unity Platform (NUP), told Reuters the incident happened at about 3am local time when security forces “broke the front door and began shooting” inside a garage where the people were waiting for the results of the election for his parliamentary seat to be announced. “It was a massacre,” he said. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Wannabe Southport copycat killer planned horror at Oasis reunion concert

McKenzie Morgan, 18, from South Wales, told a psychiatric nurse he had been researching bombs and poison and how to stab and kill people

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44 h. ago Barnet fire deaths: Two people killed in blaze at house in north London

Firefighters rushed to the scene on Albemarle Road, Barnet, and removed a man and a woman from the property

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46 h. ago Iran journalist breaks down in tears as she reads out names of those killed in protests at UN meeting

Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad broke down in tears at the United Nations on Thursday (15 January) as she read out the names of people she said were killed during protests in Iran.

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64 h. ago Boeing knew of engine defect on UPS plane that crashed in Kentucky, report says

US transportation safety board releases initial report on November 2025 crash that killed 15 people in LouisvilleAn engine part suspected of causing the crash of a UPS cargo plane and loss of 15 lives in Louisville in November was the subject of at least four previous failures on three separate aircraft, investigators have found.A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released Wednesday determined that Boeing warned plane owners about the defect, but did not believe it was a flight safety issue and did not require immediate repairs. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago ‘A group of people decided to kill me’: Michel Platini on Fifa, Uefa and the fight to clear his name

Former Uefa president – caught between moving on and settling scores – talks candidly about his downfall, Infantino and the snakepit of the game’s governance“There are millions and millions of romantics in football,” Michel Platini says. He has been asked whether, after a decade frozen out of the game, its lustre has vanished for him. “Millions who share the ideas that I have. But in the end, it’s big business.”It is an industry whose peaks Platini scaled before, in one of football’s biggest falls from grace, it spat him out. He maintains he would have become Fifa president if he had not been banned from football over an alleged unlawful payment made to him in 2011, when he was running Uefa, by Sepp Blatter. The scandal led to a criminal case but both men were acquitted for a second time, definitively so, by a Swiss appeals court last year. Nothing hangs over Platini any more, bar a conviction that he was cheated. Continue reading...

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68 h. ago ‘The world needs to know what’s happening’: families of protesters killed in Iran tell of heartbreak

As Tehran’s internet blackout means names of those killed in the uprising are only starting to emerge, the diaspora is reacting with shock, sadness and angerThe families of Iranians killed by the regime in its crackdown on anti-government protests over the past week have told the Guardian of their devastation on learning of their relatives’ deaths.More than 2,500 people have been killed so far, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, but the death toll is expected to rise substantially as the regime eases a communications blackout imposed since 8 January. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago UK withdraws staff from embassy in Iran as thousands killed in protests

At least 2,500 people are believed to have been killed in the biggest protests in the nation for years

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3 d. ago Trump says the killing in Iran is 'stopping' after he threatened retaliation over executing protesters: Live updates

LIVEBLOG: Follow the latest developments as more than 3,400 people have been killed by Iranian security forces in a harsh crackdown on protesters

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3 d. ago My father's funeral procession was ruined by a careless driver who overtook the hearse and almost killed two people

EXC: Elizabeth Owens was riding in the vehicle between a bagpiper and limousine carrying family when an 'old man' impatiently sped past them, narrowly missing two people on foot.

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3 d. ago Iran issues chilling assassination threat to Trump as tensions spiral: 'This time, the bullet will not miss the target': Live updates

LIVEBLOG: Follow the latest developments as more than 3,400 people have been killed by Iranian security forces in a harsh crackdown on protesters

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3 d. ago Funeral held for 'gentlest soul' taxi driver killed in Bolton crash as hundreds of mourners attend

Taxi driver and dad Masrob Ali was one of four people killed in the crash in Bolton

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3 d. ago Serial killer Steve Wright will stand trial accused of 'kidnapping and murdering' 17

Steve Wright, who is serving a whole-life prison order for murdering five women in Ipswich in 2006, has been charged with the kidnap and murder of 17-year-old Victoria Hall seven years earlier.

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3 d. ago New blood test could start national screening programme for 55,000 annual cancer patients

The University of Cambridge is developing a blood test that could detect a common cancer that kills 12,000 people each year.

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