9 h. ago Two children die after horror M4 minibus crash with five other kids injured in slip road chaos

Othniel Adoma, 11, is confirmed to be the second child to have died in a grim crash on the M4, police have confirmed - a minibus overturned during the incident on May 11

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36 h. ago ‘Every parent’s nightmare’: after 18 years, was this the final search for Madeleine McCann?

As visitors pose for selfies in the Portuguese resort where the British child disappeared, a breakthrough seems further away than everThe police have packed up, the diggers and radar scanners gone from the Algarve scrubland. The latest search for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who vanished from a Portuguese holiday apartment 2007, has ended quietly without any apparent breakthrough.After 18 years of intermittent searches, this one, led by German police, may well be the last. In Praia da Luz, a seaside town etched into the world’s memory by the tragedy, that realisation lands with a mix of relief and weariness. Locals barely speak about the case now, if at all. The McCann investigation brought an unrelenting glare of media attention that many here would prefer to forget. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Death is not the end! From the new robot Walt Disney to Mountainhead, movies are fuelled by immortality

Transhumanism has long propelled films from Metropolis to The Matrix. But Jesse Armstrong’s billionaire satire isn’t sci-fi fantasy. Nor is the ‘robotic Grampa’ Disney’s granddaughter so despisesFor years, the world’s most perfect urban myth was this: Walt Disney’s body was cryogenically frozen at the moment of death, waiting for technology to advance enough to bring him back to life. Started by a National Spotlite reporter who claimed to have sneaked into a hospital in 1967, only to be confronted by the sight of Disney suspended in a cryogenic cylinder, the myth prevailed because it was such a good fit.Disney – and therefore Walt Disney himself – was the smiling face of rigidly controlled joy, radiating a message of mandatory fun that is magical when you are a child and increasingly sinister as you age. This policy (essentially “enjoy yourself or else”) suits the idea of cryogenic preservation. After all, if you have the ego to successfully enforce a blanket emotion as a company mi...

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53 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Dan Snow & The Lost City: Like the foggy view, Dan Snow's trip to Machu Picchu is a damp squib

The fabled Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru is apparently the wettest place in South America. It certainly was on the day Dan Snow visited.

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3 d. ago Fear of being branded racists may have stopped authorities from saving starving toddler: Boy, three, was 'invisible and lost from view' of police and child services

Police and social workers' fear of being seen as discriminatory may have contributed to the death of Abiyah Yasharahyalah, three, who died in early 2020 from a respiratory illness.

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3 d. ago Officials defend why they did not issue an AMBER Alert for 3 missing Washington sisters who were found murdered

Wenatchee Police say they tried – and failed – to activate the child abduction response system twice

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3 d. ago Boy, three, starved to death by parents ‘had become invisible to authorities’

A review has warned ‘the safeguarding of children being impacted by harmful cultural practice is paramount’.

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3 d. ago BREAKING: Police storm homes in sudden dawn raids on suspected child sex offenders

The arrests relate to alleged grooming in Oldham between 2011 and 2014, the force said

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3 d. ago Police storm homes in sudden dawn raids on suspected child sex offenders

The arrests relate to alleged grooming in Oldham between 2011 and 2014, the force said

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4 d. ago Child Q: Black schoolgirl, 15, ‘demeaned and physically violated’ by Met Police strip search, misconduct hearing told

Three officers face gross misconduct hearing over strip search of London schoolgirl on her period wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

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4 d. ago Florida sandwich shop staffer helps free kidnapped domestic violence victim

Jersey Mike’s employee reportedly called county sheriff’s office after finding note in store bathroom that read ‘HELP’A Navarre, Florida, sandwich shop employee reportedly helped authorities save a domestic violence victim who had allegedly been kidnapped by her abusive, pro-wrestler boyfriend after the worker recently found a note in a store bathroom that read “HELP!”At the center of the incident is Eleanor Coffee, who was at her job making sandwiches for a shop belonging to the Jersey Mike’s chain when she noticed a “little piece of crumpled up paper” that had been discarded next to one of the business’s toilet paper dispensers, as she put it to the local news station WEAR-TV. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Mayor of small city in Georgia charged over child sex crimes, police say

Joseph Kelly has been the mayor of Climax for five years and is facing child sex charges.

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8 d. ago Search suspended for missing 'Romanian girl, 9,' who vanished in Thames in front of parents

Lifeboats and coastguard helicopters have spent the afternoon looking for the girl who vanished near the Royal Terrace Pier at Gravesend, Kent, in front of her parents.

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8 d. ago Hunt for missing girl who vanished in Thames on family day out

Emergency services rushed to Royal Terrace Pier at Gravesend, Kent, after a boy and girl got into difficulty in the River Thames at around 1.35pm.

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8 d. ago Child is missing in the Thames as RNLI, Coastguard helicopter and police boats launch major search

One child has been recovered from River Thames but the search continues for a second youngster, according to Coastguard officials.

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9 d. ago Liverpool parade crash latest: Child, 9, revealed as youngest victim after police issue update on injured

Tally of people injured in crash has climbed to 79, police say

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1 week ago Sums behind Nigel Farage's vow to spend £85billion if he wins the next election 'are implausible', experts say

Nigel Farage unveiled a string of policies in a major speech, including scrapping the two-child benefit cap, reinstating winter fuel payments and raising the tax-free income allowance to £20,000.

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1 week ago Paralympic skier, accused of trying to sexually abuse two kids, says his plan was to ‘humiliate’ their mother

Gilbert Camacho told police that he was not capable of sexually assaulting a child due to not having any legs

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1 week ago Nigel Farage vows to reverse Keir Starmer's cut to winter fuel payments as part of £85bn package

The Reform UK leader unveiled a string of policies in a major speech, including scrapping the two-child benefit cap and fully reinstating winter fuel payments.

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1 week ago Child is among four 'very seriously ill' in hospital after Liverpool crash

A total of 27 people have been taken to hospital following the horrific incident, with four still seriously injured - including a child who was one of four trapped under the car when firefighters arrived.

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