2 h. ago 'We have to go on': Bangkok pushes on with quake rescue despite 'no signs of life' – video

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said that although no signs of life had been detected, the search for survivors in the rubble of a skyscraper that collapsed during the 7.7 magnitude Myanmar earthquake will continue as experts 'still have hope'. He added that 12 bodies have been found, but that the search for survivors is the priority.‘It’s beyond description’: Bodies pile up in mass graves as Myanmar grapples with quake tollMyanmar earthquake death toll tops 2,000, as health system ‘overwhelmed’ Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Britain's most dangerous gangsters: Why Chinese criminals now pose biggest threat to UK security as they wield control over money laundering, drug smuggling and human trafficking

EXCLUSIVE: The NCA revealed that mobsters from the country pose the biggest foreign organised crime threat to the UK, a finding that's taken even experts by surprise.

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2 h. ago I loved being a principal, but Australia has grown complacent about the growing violence directed at educators | Andy Mison

School principals are resilient but, in an alarming number of cases, their job harms them. We would not tolerate these conditions in other workplacesI’ve been lucky. I’ve enjoyed a rewarding career in education, including almost 15 years as a principal in the Northern Territory and the ACT. I’ve worked with wonderful teachers and administrative staff, and shared in the successes of hundreds of young people and their families as they grow and graduate high school, going on to further study, employment and life adventures.I’ve also experienced verbal and physical abuse, aggression and violence from students and their carers, directed at me and my colleagues in the course of my work as a school leader. I once regarded these occasional events as part of the job, normal in our frontline occupation. I now think we have grown complacent about the levels of violence toward a predominantly female workforce that we would not tolerate in other workplaces. As the latest data from the Australian...

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5 h. ago Court affirms convictions of 2 key people in plot to kidnap Michigan's governor

An appeals court has affirmed the convictions of two men who were accused of leading a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor in 2020 and start a civil war

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6 h. ago Birmingham bin strike: Rats seen roaming freely as waste piles up in hot weather

Rats are roaming freely with an average of 10 rodents spotted per hour on Birmingham streets as rubbish piles grow larger and residents are now losing patience with the striking workers

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6 h. ago Here's where jobs and programs are being cut at the nation's top health agencies

Thousands of people at the nation’s top health agencies were laid off Tuesday

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7 h. ago Trump administration guts mine safety and reproductive health divisions in sweeping HHS cuts

The Health and Human Services has begun an overhaul of its 28 divisions despite concerns about public safety

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7 h. ago US officials challenge Ofcom’s risk to free speech caused by online safety laws

Exclusive: State department said to have raised concerns over whether new online safety act infringes on freedom of expressionUS state department officials have challenged Britain’s communications regulator over the impact on freedom of expression created by new online safety laws, the Guardian understands.A group of officials from the state department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) recently met with Ofcom in London. It is understood that they raised the issue of the new online safety act and how it risked infringing free speech. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago US officials challenge Ofcom over risk to free speech caused by online safety laws

Exclusive: State department said to have raised concerns over whether new act infringes on freedom of expressionUS state department officials have challenged Britain’s communications regulator over the impact on freedom of expression created by new online safety laws, the Guardian understands.A group of officials from the state department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) recently met Ofcom in London. It is understood that they raised the issue of the new online safety act and how it risked infringing free speech. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Ruben Amorim identifies first two Man Utd stars he wants to sell to fund new striker

Ruben Amorim is plotting a summer overhaul of his struggling Manchester United squad but the club will need to sell before they can buy amid their difficult financial position

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8 h. ago Eating cheap junk food could actually stop us getting fat, scientists discover

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, US, have reached an unlikely verdict on diets and weight loss after research conducted on mice eating different food

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8 h. ago ITV Coronation Street fans spot 'plot hole' in Jenny and Daisy storyline after new twist

Coronation Street fans think that they have spotted a 'plot hole' in Jenny Connor and Daisy Midgeley's current storyline after the pair spoke about what happened in the past

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9 h. ago Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say

Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crimeSome of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave nine days ago in Gaza, were found with their hands or legs tied and had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, according to two eyewitnesses.The eyewitness accounts add to an accumulating body of evidence pointing to a potentially serious war crime on 23 March, when Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews and civil defence rescue workers were sent to the scene of an airstrike in the early hours of the morning in the al-Hashashin district of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago The 'very hot property' found in woman's bedroom as cops smashed 'Lex' drugs gang

A 'well organised' operation

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10 h. ago What happened in Black Mirror USS Callister episode? Sequel plot explained

It's been over seven years since USS Callister first graced our screens as part of Black Mirror's critically acclaimed fourth season, with Benidorm and The Windsors star Milanka Brooks reprising her role as blue-skinned Elena Tulaska

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11 h. ago Can you guess the Coronation Street legend from his soap debut a whopping 42 years ago?

Four decades on, viewers still tune in religiously to catch his latest dramatic plotlines, including a recent health revelation, and have now been shocked to discover footage of him from a different era.

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11 h. ago Tonight's rugby news as English clubs plot raid for three of Wales' top talents

The top rugby stories making headlines on Tuesday, April 1

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11 h. ago Thousands of US health agency workers laid off in overhaul led by RFK Jr

Trump administration begins reducing Health and Human Services workforce as Kennedy plans up to 10,000 job cutsThousands of Health and Human Services (HHS) employees across the country are being dismissed on Tuesday as the Trump administration begins implementing its workforce-reduction plan, which could ultimately remove 10,000 staff members from the department through forced layoffs.The job cuts mark the first tangible impact of the health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s departmental overhaul announced last week, landing just days after Donald Trump moved to strip collective-bargaining rights from workers at HHS and other federal agencies. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago A gentle giant: the shy wētāpunga is adept at living in the shadows

New Zealand’s docile, solitary and elusive ‘god of ugly things’ does wonders for the forest-floor ecosystemAre you sick of throwing yourself on the altar of unrealistic beauty standards? Do you long to celebrate the delightfully monstrous, to give the spiny stuff of shadows their day in the sun? Then consider the mighty wētāpunga – an endemic New Zealand insect so revered for its unconventional beauty its name means “god of ugly things”.This forest behemoth is thought to be the heaviest adult insect in the world, with a female weighing as much as a mouse or a sparrow. Its body can grow up to 10cm long (nearly 4in) and its leg span can be as wide as 20cm. Once found across parts of the North Island, the vulnerable wētāpunga – the largest of 70 wētā species – now resides entirely on a smattering of predator-free islands near Auckland.Between 24 March and 2 April, we will be profiling a shortlist of 10 of the invertebrates chosen by readers and selected by our wildlife writers from mor...

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12 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 6 unhinged things Donald Trump did in the last 24 hours as he makes cryptic tariff comment

It's never a dull moment in Trump land - from thickening the plot on tariffs and not ruling out staying in office beyond his legal time limit - to randomly deporting people to El Salvador by mistake and admitting they can't get them back.

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