7 h. ago Girl, 18, who went missing in Thailand 'seen in handcuffs in Georgia' as details of arrest revealed

Bella May Culley, 18, had been the focus of an international search operation after going missing while on holiday in Thailand

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16 h. ago Shock update on British girl, 18, reported missing on holiday in Thailand as she is found in hellish situation 4,000 miles away

Bella May Culley, 18, sparked a massive international search operation this week as she hadn't been in touch with her family since Saturday.

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28 h. ago Three care home deaths on same night that sparked manslaughter investigation and arrest were tragic coincidence, police reveal

The emergency services rushed to the care home that caters for dementia sufferers in Swansea after three residents were found dead in their rooms.

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57 h. ago ‘A whirling mass of limbs and lingerie’: the salacious, riotous story of the high

It started out as a dance for men who risked arrest for indecency – and grew into a legs-flying, bloomers-revealing sensation. We go behind the scenes at Bottoms, a thrilling new show about the cancan‘Our chorus line was never going to look like the Moulin Rouge’s,” says Katherina Radeva. And everyone knows what that one looks like, don’t they? The high-kicking cancan chorus line with long legs flying up in a blur as women show off their bloomers to the sound of Offenbach’s irresistibly infectious music – a riot of frills, thrills, whoops and garters. Well, that’s certainly one version. But Radeva is talking about Bottoms, a show she has put together with co-director Alister Lownie and their company Two Destination Language. Bottoms takes the cancan as its muse, its creators having discovered that the real story of the dance phenomenon is much more interesting than the tourist-friendly cliche.It turns out that the identikit all-female spectacle that we know so well is the opposite o...

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3 w. ago Putin will not attend pope's funeral, Kremlin reveals, as the Russian leader faces International Criminal Court arrest warrant

The Vatican announced today that the funeral would take place on Saturday at 10am local time in the square in front of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

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4 w. ago Karmelo Anthony granted house arrest over fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf as family reveals plans for donated funds

Karmelo Anthony, 17, has been charged in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, 17, following a confrontation at a Frisco, Texas, track meet

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4 w. ago Warwick Davis' wife Samantha's 'heartbreaking' cause of death revealed more than a year later

The cause of death for the actress and wife of Warwick Davis, Samantha Davis, who died in March last year has 'heartbreakingly' been revealed more than a year later.

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