64 h. ago Labour's 'winter fuel death tax': Tens of thousands of grieving families could be hounded to pick up their dead elderly relative's HMRC bill

The families of dead pensioners could be hounded by the taxman under Labour's winter fuel payments U-turn, it emerged yesterday.

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1 week ago Four killed in Gaza as Palestinians storm UN warehouse in desperate search for food

As fears of starvation spiral, Gazans raided the building in a desperate attempt to find something to eat

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1 week ago Four dead as thousands of Palestinians loot aid warehouse in Gaza

Two people were crushed to death as the heaving mass of humanity poured into the Al-Ghafari warehouse World Food Programme provisions, while two others were reportedly shot dead

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1 week ago The Better Sister review – Jessica Biel’s glossy thriller is full of gorgeous interiors and death

This sleekly entertaining whodunnit is a schadenfreude-packed take on streaming’s favourite theme: watching sexy, successful people suffering terrible misfortuneIt begins as thousands of stories have before – with a dead body and a host of unanswered questions. In The Better Sister, the deceased is lawyer Adam Macintosh (Corey Stoll), husband to high-flying women’s magazine editor Chloe Taylor (Jessica Biel) and father to amenable teen Ethan. As a couple, the Macintosh-Taylors are extremely well off and not particularly sympathetic: she radiates sleek perfection, absolute success and suitable levels of ruthlessness; he seems to be despised by all and sundry – including people unaware of the mind-boggling betrayal his current life is built on. So the question is not so much who murdered Adam and destroyed this family – but why on earth should we care?The obvious reason is simply to sate our own morbid curiosity, which The Better Sister – an adaptation of the novel by Alafair Burke – ...

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1 week ago Palestinians loot WFP warehouse as widespread hunger deepens Gaza chaos

Looting incident follows disruption at food distribution site as Israel continues to limit supplies despite 79-day siege

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2 w. ago A Black father killed a cop after seeing his son shot dead in a police chase. People have donated tens of thousands of dollars to his cause

Rodney Hinton Jr’s case has been compared to the killing of a healthcare CEO by Luigi Mangione, but his family has rejected claims he was acting out of revenge, Richard Hall writes.

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2 w. ago 'Fit and healthy' stepdad told he had constipation...two weeks later he was dead

A heartbroken woman has told of her shock at losing her healthy stepfather to cancer after his symptoms were initially brushed off as constipation.

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2 w. ago NSW floods: one dead and thousands stranded as BoM warns of ‘intense’ rain and flash flooding

With 48,000 already isolated, forecasters say ‘heavy, intense rainfall’ has spread north bringing life-threatening riskAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDevastating floods along Australia’s east coast have killed at least one man, after a body was found on a flooded property.Emergency services were called to Moto, on the New South Wales mid-north coast, on Wednesday afternoon and located the body of the 63-year-old.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Healthy' man, 32, had common pain...months later he was dead

A heartbroken widow has told of her shock at losing her 32-year-old husband to deadly heart failure, as she warns thousands could be at risk of untimely deaths.

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