8 h. ago Teenager charged with murder after death of girl, 17, in South Wales

Gwent police name victim as Lainie Williams and have charged Cameron Cheng, 18, a British nationalA teenager has been charged with murder after a 17-year-old girl was killed in South Wales.The girl, named as Lainie Williams, was pronounced dead at the scene, Gwent police said. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Schoolgirl, 11, 'starved' before death as body found inside bin a year later

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jacqueline 'Mimi' Torres-Garcia was found in Conneticut, tied up inside a plastic bin with authorities believing the young girl may have been dead for a year

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62 h. ago 'They've butted heads': Liz Hurley is 'distant' from son Damian and spending all her time with Billy Ray Cyrus, as insiders tell ALISON BOSHOFF how model has moved out of his mother's home

No mother and son have been closer than Damian Hurley and his model mother Liz. Their lives have always been remarkably intertwined with Damian even casting her in his directorial debut.

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4 d. ago ‘She rang me to say there was water coming into the house’ – This is climate breakdown

His mother had lived in the same house for 83 years. When the floods came, no one was ready. This is Paul Gilbert’s storyLocation Chesterfield, UKDisaster Storm Babet, 2023Paul Gilbert’s mother, Maureen, lived in Chesterfield. In 2023, Storm Babet claimed seven lives across the UK, led to more than 10,000 people being evacuated from their homes and caused in excess of £450m in property damage. Extreme rainfall is more common and more intense because of human-caused climate breakdown across most of the world, and experts have linked some of the damage caused by Storm Babet to the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Doctor who invented fake landlord and tenancy agreement for £12k housing benefits scam is struck off

Dr Olubunmi Adeagbo-Sheikh told the DWP that he was renting a London property but actually lived with his mother in Swanley, Kent while he fraudulently claimed £900 a month.

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6 d. ago Brunaupark review – housing estate dwellers vs property developers in rousing but unequal battle

This heartfelt film bears witness to a defiant community, forms a vital piece of oral history and shows the resilience of those determined to stay onIn many cities across Europe, there is a familiar sight of longstanding housing estates being gutted to make way for more expensive builds. Felix Hergert and Dominik Zietlow’s heartfelt film focuses on one such complex, the vibrant Brunaupark in Zurich. Consisting of five residential tenements, the area is home to more than 400 tenants, who have created a close-knit multicultural community over the decades. Credit Suisse, whose pension fund owns the building, has other ideas. The people of Brunaupark are served with notices as proposals for partial demolition and new construction get under way.Going from door to door, this documentary forms a vital piece of oral history, bearing witness to the defiance and resilience of those determined to stay. Each story is filled with colourful memories: one restaurant owner, who has been forced to g...

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7 d. ago Deadly tornado in Brazil kills six people leaving scenes like a 'war zone' in its wake

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured more than 400 others, officials said - among the dead was a 14-year-old girl

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9 d. ago 'Murder' probe after man who killed girl, 2, found dead in prison cell

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody after killer Kyle Bevan, 33, was found dead at HMP Wakefield

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9 d. ago Victims’ families call for Southport killer’s parents to be held to account

Axel Rudakubana’s mother and father gave evidence to the Liverpool Town Hall hearing on Thursday.

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9 d. ago Horror as girl, 8, shot dead as gunman disguised as clown opens fire during party

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Halloween celebrations turned to real-life horror in Colombia when an innocent young girl fell in a hail of bullets from a killer dressed as a clown

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1 week ago The unsolved sleepover massacre that haunts an Iowa town... and the ghosts that never left

On a hot summer night in 1912, a seemingly normal family sleepover in a close-knit community turned into an unimaginable horror that has never been solved.

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2 w. ago I'm 52 but look 35. I've never used Botox, fillers or had a facelift... here are the 6 steps I follow that make me look ageless

Andi Lew is often mistaken for being 15 years younger than she actually is. The mother-of-one from Sydney who now lives in Los Angeles, shares the secrets to her ageless appearance.

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2 w. ago Two men arrested after girl, 4, found dead inside well next to condom and choco milk

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Esther Izabelly Pereira, four, was found dead at the bottom of a well after her seven-year-old brother saw her being led away by a man

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2 w. ago ‘DeepSeek is humane. Doctors are more like machines’: my mother’s worrying reliance on AI for health advice

Tired of a two-day commute to see her overworked doctor, my mother turned to tech for help with her kidney disease. She bonded with the bot so much I was scared she would refuse to see a real medicThis essay was originally published on Rest of worldEvery few months, my mother, a 57-year-old kidney transplant patient who lives in a small city in eastern China, embarks on a two-day journey to see her doctor. She fills her backpack with a change of clothes, a stack of medical reports and a few boiled eggs to snack on. Then, she takes a 90-minute ride on a high-speed train and checks into a hotel in the eastern metropolis of Hangzhou.At 7am the next day, she lines up with hundreds of others to get her blood taken in a long hospital hall that buzzes like a crowded marketplace. In the afternoon, when the lab results arrive, she makes her way to a specialist’s clinic. She gets about three minutes with the doctor. Maybe five, if she’s lucky. He skims the lab reports and quickly types a new ...

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2 w. ago Aberdeen incident: Girl, 8, dies after taking unwell at Aberdeen park and ride

The girl was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead a short time later.

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3 w. ago Girl, 15, found dead in bedroom after being 'shot in head' by boyfriend, 16

Chanelle Alvarez, a 'spectacular' 15-year-old from Ogden, Utah, was allegedly murdered on October 18 by her 16-year-old boyfriend Hezekiah Plummer

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3 w. ago Young girl dead and woman in hospital after incident in UK village

The woman is in a 'life-threatening condition', officers say

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3 w. ago Woman fighting for life and girl, 9, dies following assault at Oxfordshire home

Thames Valley Police were called to a property in Islip, Oxfordshire, after receiving reports three children had been assaulted - and the girl was declared dead at the scene

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3 w. ago Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 NovemberUS politics – follow liveTwo decades ago, Sara Carlson, then a mother of three, was newly single because of a traumatic event, and the US’s food stamp program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), helped her feed her children with free food supplies.“I wouldn’t have been able to afford to live,” said Carlson, 45, who lives in Rochester, Minnesota, and now works as an operations manager for a wealth-management firm and serves on the board of Channel One Regional Food Bank, which works to increase food access. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Girl found dead at home in 'close knit' Cotswold village 'lived with her mother and sibling'

A murder probe was launched after officers were called to the property on Middle Street, in Islip, north Oxfordshire, on Tuesday.

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