16 h. ago Gareth Thomas reveals he's been spat at in the street as he recalls the horrific abuse he gets for being gay

Former rugby star Gareth Thomas says he has been spat at in the street as he details some of the horrfic homophobic abuse he has dealt with.

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42 h. ago Rugby legend Gareth Thomas says we're still 's***' at tackling homophobia and HIV stigma

Thomas captained both Wales and the British and Irish Lions during his illustrious playing career, becoming the Welshman to be captained 100 times by his national team.

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4 d. ago Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser review – how did television ever sink so low?

Cruelty. Contestants who have abuse screamed in their face. Cash prizes. This documentary about a horrific 00s weight-loss reality TV series in the US makes for deeply troubling watchingThe mid-2000s were a peculiar time in television. After the dubious 90s innovations of Jerry Springer in the US were followed by the UK launch of Big Brother, it was clear that using the travails of so-called ordinary people as fuel for small-screen entertainment was an idea with legs. There was a mini goldrush of sorts as programme makers realised that conflict, extremity and dysfunction would always sell – and that any human-interest subject could be shoehorned into some version of reality TV.In Britain, ITV’s The Jeremy Kyle Show began casting its malign spell in 2005. In the US, something similarly queasy (and enduring) had arrived a year earlier in the shape of NBC’s weight loss bootcamp-meets-bearpit, The Biggest Loser, which took contestants living with obesity then belittled them with humilia...

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6 d. ago Girl, 12, raped by 200 men after failing exam and running away from home

The young girl was saved from an Indian prostitution ring after suffering a three-month-long period of horrific abuse.

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7 d. ago Lionesses star Jess Carter reveals she was 'scared to PLAY' after suffering horrific racist abuse during England's Euros campaign

Lionesses star Jess Carter has revealed that she was 'scared to play' for the first time in her career after being subjected to racist abuse during Euro 2025.

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9 d. ago 'Vampire' mum jailed for abusing kids, horrific details emerge

Jorden Borders, 35, was found guilty on all 11 charges brought against her earlier this summer, including one count of attempted murder, three counts of child torture, and three counts of stalking

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9 d. ago Missing tot 'sold to meth dealer' after suffering horrific abuse from parents

Baby London Kerr was reportedly beaten with a wooden paddle and even shot at with a BB gun by her mum, Ashley Ceejay Rowland and her boyfriend, Joshua Denton. The pair have now been arrested.

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1 week ago The village of wives who killed HUNDREDS of husbands: After years of horrific beatings and abuse, one woman had had enough... and led a terrifying, murderous spate of revenge

From 1911 to 1929, dozens of women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and even children.

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1 week ago Coronation Street's Jack P Shepherd called out for 'lies' as he recalls withdrawing £2000 aged 12

The actor has been on TV for as long as he can remember, but he's famed for playing David Platt in the ITV soap

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1 week ago Court documents detail horrific abuse of missing child, say caregiver put hot sauce in her eyes

Court documents detail horrific abuse of missing child, say caregiver put hot sauce in her eyes  KOCO

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1 week ago ‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities

Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inaugurationA new report has found hundreds of reported cases of human rights abuses in US immigration detention centers.The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions, inadequate food and water, exposure to extreme temperatures, denial of access to attorneys, and child separation. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US citizens jailed in LA Ice raids speak out: ‘They came ready to attack’

Exclusive: Andrea Velez and Adrian Martinez recount their capture by immigration officers and its effects on their livesAs two masked men dragged her into an unmarked SUV, Andrea Velez tried to focus on details she might later remember – one man’s red shirt, the car’s leather seats, a black backpack inside.At 9.20am on 24 June in downtown Los Angeles, the 32-year-old was heading into work at a footwear company when the men in gator masks jumped out of their car and started chasing vendors and other people on the street, she recalled. As people fled, Velez froze and held onto her bag. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against womenOn 2 July, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against the music mogul Sean Combs, accused of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep pockets. He’s also accused in many civil suits of sexual abuse of adults and minors. It seems like everyone promptly forgot about Combs when the facts about the financier Jeffrey Epstein’s decades of horrific sexual abuse of at least a 100 girls and women, with the help of his extensive staff, deep pockets, banks, and elite connections became the next front-page ruckus.In June, the movie producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty in a New York retrial for some of his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women, with the help of his extensive staff, top lawyers, the film industry, some ex-Mossad agents and of course his deep pockets. In February a federal appeals court upheld the convictions and 30-...

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