2 h. ago Police issue update on M6 closure after eight people including children rushed to hospital in horror crash

Emergency services and the air ambulance were called to the southbound carriageway following the serious crash

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6 h. ago Eight people including two children taken to hospital after M6 crash

The motorway remains closed following the crash at 10.30am

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9 h. ago M6 closed after horror smash sees 2 kids and 6 others injured as drivers face long delays

The crash reportedly involved six vehicles and saw eight people injured including two young children, with an air ambulance attending the scene in Lancashire

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27 h. ago Man, 19, airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after crash

The teenager is receiving treatment

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31 h. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 30 people including six children gathering water, hospitals say

Six children were killed by an Israeli strike on a water collection point while another three were killed when a home was struck

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33 h. ago Israeli airstrike kills at least 10, including six children, at Gaza water station, say health officials

Nine killed in separate bombing of a home on Sunday and 31 others shot dead near aid distribution site on SaturdayMiddle East crisis – live updatesAn Israeli airstrike has killed at least 10 people, including six children, who were waiting to collect water in Gaza, Palestinian health officials have said.A separate airstrike on Sunday hit a home, killing nine people, and 31 others were shot dead near an aid distribution site on Saturday, marking another bloody weekend as the conflict’s death toll exceeded 58,000. Continue reading...

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36 h. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 19, hospitals say, as ceasefire talks drag on

Gaza health officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 19 people including six children at a water collection point

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3 d. ago Thousands raised for funeral of 'beautiful boy' killed in horror Glencoe bus crash

Jake Larmour, 18, tragically died in hospital five days after the crash on his way home from his lifelong dream of scaling Ben Nevis.

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4 d. ago Israeli strike kills at least 15 people queueing outside medical point in Gaza

Ten children among the dead in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’At least 15 people, including 10 children, have been killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point in central Gaza, amid intensifying Israeli attacks that left 82 people dead across the strip.The uptick in Israeli bombing came as negotiators said a Gaza ceasefire deal was in sight, but not yet achieved. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza

Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’At least 15 people, including 10 children, have been killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point in central Gaza, amid intensifying Israeli attacks that left 82 people dead across the strip.The uptick in Israeli bombing came as negotiators said a Gaza ceasefire deal was in sight, but not yet achieved. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Man in hospital after serious crash which closed Dumfries and Galloway road for more than 12 hours

Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision on the A75 near Creetown in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

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5 d. ago More than 17 million people in Yemen are going hungry, including over 1 million children, UN says

More than 17 million people in conflict-torn Yemen are going hungry, including over one million children under the age of five who are suffering from “life-threatening acute malnutrition,” the U.N. humanitarian chief says

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5 d. ago UFC legend Randy Couture airlifted to hospital after suffering severe burns and injuries in race car crash

The 62-year-old, who was slated to make his National Hot Rod Association racing debut this year, was reportedly involved in an accident during practice runs at a race track in Kansas City.

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5 d. ago Police issue update as man spends week in hospital after electric bike crash

Four people had been arrested

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5 d. ago Number of patients in UK waiting for lifesaving organ transplant at record high

More than 8,000 people, including almost 300 children, are on waiting list, as NHS sees sharp drop in donorsThe number of patients waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the UK has increased to a record high while there has been a sharp drop in donors, official figures show.More than 8,000 people, including almost 300 children, are on the transplant waiting list, according to NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). With nearly another 4,000 in need of an organ but temporarily off the list because they are too sick or unavailable for an operation, it means almost 12,000 people are living in limbo, waiting for the call that can mean the difference between life and death. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Timeline raises questions over how Texas officials handled warnings before the deadly July 4 flood

Officials in Texas are facing mounting questions about whether they did enough to get people out of harm’s way before a flash flood swept down the Guadalupe River and killed more than 100 people, including at least 27 children and counselors at an all-girls Christian camp

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6 d. ago Live updates as three hospitalised in serious crash at busy A48 junction in Cardiff

South Wales Police said the road would remain closed for some time

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6 d. ago 'Hero' sniffer dog who saved missing kids murdered by sausages laced with nails

A seven-year-old bloodhound who was called a hero for finding nine missing people - including children and people with Alzheimer's during his career - has been brutally murdered in a ‘revenge attack’

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7 d. ago Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding

Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics sayTed Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting.Cruz, who infamously fled Texas for Cancun when a crippling winter storm ravaged his state in 2021, was seen visiting the Parthenon in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday, a day after a flash flood along the Guadalupe River in central Texas killed more than 100 people, including dozens of children and counselors at a camp. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago How Americans are helping Texas flood victims – and what you can do

Flooding has killed at least 95 people including 27 children and counsellors at a summer camp

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