59 m. ago Teenage boy accused of trying to hire hitmen online in Nordic ‘cash for killing’ operation

The boy was arrested and charged in Australia for allegedly using an encrypted app to recruit contract killers in Sweden and Denmark

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29 h. ago DWP wants to know exactly what PIP claimants are spending their benefit cash on

The DWP is to carry out research into the disability-related expenses that PIP is designed to cover - but campaigners have warned the current payments do not meet the costs

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36 h. ago Gun safety warning as relatives charged after boy shot and killed in Australia

Man, 33, and teenager, 14, charged over minor’s death

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44 h. ago CIA files detail Cold War UFO encounter where 'aliens turned Soviet troops to stone'

The KGB report claims Soviet soldiers fired and shot down a flying saucer, but were then killed when the aliens onboard fired upon them with a weapon that turned them to stone

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51 h. ago ‘Don’t you besmirch Super Mario Bros!’: how video game adaptations became prestige TV

From The Last of Us to Fallout, the days of ropey dramas stemming from consoles is over. Television insiders open up about why high-end shows and gaming now go hand-in-handTwo teenagers plan how to dispatch their latest undead enemy: a kill-shot to the head, or a knife in the side of the neck? One of them throws a glass bottle, distracting their prey. Then she goes in for the kill with all the breezy confidence of a kid playing a video game on easy.It’s a rare moment of playfulness in the second-season opener of The Last of Us, a show that generally takes its storytelling deadly seriously. While the wildly lucrative Minecraft movie strip-mines its IP for laughs, this celebrated HBO series, adapted from the PlayStation titles of the same name, is as focused on taut character drama as the thrills and spills of the zombie genre. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago US airstrikes kill six in Yemen as Houthis claim to have shot down another Reaper drone

American military hasn’t claimed responsibility for latest attacks

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56 h. ago MP refused entry to Hong Kong warns of closer relations with China

Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse raises concerns about a ‘hidden blacklist’ of MPs barred from entering former British territory

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3 d. ago Bondi Westfield attack victims ‘should still be here’, Anthony Albanese says in first anniversary tribute

PM also praises first responders’ courage and a community ‘united in grief’ one year after stabbing rampage that killed sixElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has paid tribute to the victims of the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbings one year on from the tragedy.Forty-year-old Joel Cauchi killed Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Yixuan Cheng, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, and Faraz Tahrir, 30, and injured a further 10 people at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April 2024 before he was shot and killed by police inspector Amy Scott.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Cop killer's final act of defiance before being shot dead by prison firing squad in violent execution

Mikal Mahdi, with a hood over his head, cried out as the three bullets to the heart hit him and his arms flexed. A red bull's-eye that was placed over his heart was pushed into the bullet wound in his chest.

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4 d. ago Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree

Mahdi, who killed an officer in 2004, endured torture in his childhood and argued he was denied a fair trialA prison firing squad in South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday, the second recent death row killing in the state by authorized gunfire.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees inside the execution chamber, where authorities have carried out a rapid spree of killings as South Carolina aggressively revives capital punishment. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Mickey Rourke says 'it gets confusing' after warning on CBB as co

Celebrity Big Brother housemate Mickey Rourke expresses confusion over terminology related to the drag community after a warning over language in a separate chat about sexuality

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7 d. ago Coach suspected of killing teen boy was in the US illegally and has been tied to older sex abuse cases, authorities say

A youth soccer coach charged with the murder of a 13-year-old Los Angeles boy was living in the U.S. illegally and now faces charges of child sexual abuse on another boy that happened years earlier.

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7 d. ago Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott faces sexual abuse charges

The 47-year-old is charged with abuse of a boy and a girlHe defeated Peter Ebdon to win 2006 world titleThe former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been accused of sexually abusing children. The 47-year-old is facing charges of sexual abuse against a boy and a girl.Court papers allege he abused the girl in Glasgow between 1993 and 1996. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Snooker world champion Graeme Dott, 47, is charged with historic sexual abuse against two ten

The 47-year-old, who took the world title in 2006 and the China Open a year later, is facing charges of historic sex abuse against a boy and a girl.

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7 d. ago UK must improve trade relations with Europe amid US tariff wars, warns Reeves

Chancellor rules out rejoining customs union but says Britain must bolster post-Brexit trade with partnersUK politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s unfolding trade war makes it even more “imperative” for the UK to improve its post-Brexit trading relations with the European Union, Rachel Reeves has said.The government has ruled out rejoining the EU customs union, but the chancellor has insisted the UK wants to improve its trade relationship with “partners in Europe”, given the difficulties British firms have found in exporting their products around Europe. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Essex Boys gangland killer Michael Steele will be released from prison despite last ditch bid by ministers to keep him behind bars

Alongside accomplice Jack Whomes, Steele (inset) shot and killed three men in Rettendon, near Chelmsford, in December 1995 in a brutal gangland execution.

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8 d. ago ‘It was a field execution’: Family mourns after Israel fatally shoots 14

Israeli forces said the boy was killed when they shot three ‘terrorists’ who were throwing rocks at a highway

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9 d. ago Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says

PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s accountAutopsies conducted on 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil emergency responders who were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza show they were were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, which is demanding an international investigation into the attack.The killings took place in the southern Gaza Strip on 23 March, days into a renewed Israeli offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory, and sparked international condemnation. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Cries of ‘they’ve killed me dad’ after man was fatally shot through window

Police launched a murder inquiry on Saturday after a man was shot in his own home

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9 d. ago At least 20 dead in flooding and tornadoes as storms slash US South and Midwest

A storm system sweeping over large areas of the U.S. South and Midwest has resulted in at least 20 weather-related deaths, with overnight tornado and flash flood warnings setting up more severe weather that forecasters say could cause rising waterways for days to come

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