68 m. ago Hundreds of passengers evacuated after Delta Air Lines Airbus A330 engine catches fire

Flames and smoke were spotted near the aircrafts’ tail at Orlando International Airport

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76 m. ago Penalties for failing to declare child benefit on tax return plummet as Government eyes changes

Higher earners who do not opt out of payments need to pay a tax charge at the end of the tax year and declare it on their self-assessment tax return or face a penalty.

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76 m. ago Being designated driver on a night out could cost you big, major car insurer warns

Drunk passengers are putting designated drivers at huge risk, Direct Line has found. A third of designated drivers had an issue with drunk passengers in the last year.

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87 m. ago Hadera shark attack: Missing swimmer screamed four words as he was mauled off beach

WARNING GRAPHIC DETAILS: The male swimmer had been spotted off the coast of Hadera, in Israel, when the brutal attack happened sparking a widespread search to find him

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1 hour ago Football news: Luis Enrique fires Arsenal warning as Ange Postecoglou dismisses Spurs concerns

Arsenal host PSG in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final clash next week, but Luis Enrique has warned the Gunners they will not be given an easy ride

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2 h. ago Pope Francis hailed as ‘unflinching global champion’ on climate crisis

Officials and campaigners from around world pay tribute to pontiff who put environment at heart of his papacyPope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, dies aged 88He declared destroying the environment a sin, warned that humanity was turning the glorious creation of God into a “polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth”, and located the cause of the climate crisis in people’s “selfish and boundless thirst for power”.The messages Pope Francis delivered on the climate and environmental crises were forceful and direct. He called the leaders of fossil fuel companies into the Vatican to hold them to account; declared a global climate emergency, in 2019; and in his final months, held a conference on “the economics of the common good”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Action needed: social housing providers must be made accountable for the treatment of their tenants | Steve Bundred

Angela Rayner’s renters’ rights bill is admirable, but it won’t help those living in substandard accommodationSteve Bundred is a former Audit Commission chief executiveOn the tree-lined north London street where I live, scaffolders arrived seven years ago. Metal poles were erected around a housing association property next door to me, owned by the social housing provider Peabody, to allow for external refurbishment work to be carried out. But today, that scaffolding still stands – and those repair works have never been carried out.“This is yet another example of Peabody’s casual neglect of their residents. They do not respond to emails from me or senior council officers and have also ignored an enforcement notice served on them by planning officers,” the chair of Islington council’s planning committee, Martin Klute, recently told the Islington Tribune. Peabody owns more than 5% of Islington’s nearly 112,000 properties. And it has well below average performance on every key indicator...

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2 h. ago Ruud van Nistelrooy faces easy Leicester decision as Man Utd icon’s worst fears come true

Manchester United icon Ruud van Nistelrooy has led Leicester to an instant return to the Championship after their relegation from the Premier League was confirmed with defeat to Liverpool

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2 h. ago Coronation Street spoilers as Betsy pushes Carla, Lauren's threatened, Daisy leaves and character stages return

There's also a chance kiss and an A&E dash in the ITV soap next week

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2 h. ago White Tennessee GOP rep calls Texas Democrat Al Green, 77, ‘boy’ in putdown

Diana Harshbarger also implied that Texas Representative Al Green, 77, may have been hiding a gun in his cane as he protested during Donald Trump’s speech in Congress last month against reported planned cuts to Medicaid

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2 h. ago White Tennessee GOP rep calls Texas Democrat Al Green, 77, ‘boy’ in putdown on Christian podcast

Diana Harshbarger also implied that Texas Representative Al Green, 77, may have been hiding a gun in his cane as he protested during Donald Trump’s speech in Congress last month against reported planned cuts to Medicaid

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2 h. ago British man killed in Costa del Sol shooting as manhunt underway for gunman after car found torched

The murder happened in the popular British holiday resort of Calahonda between Marbella and Fuengirola as police believe the gunman fled the crime scene in a getaway car later found torched nearby

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3 h. ago NHS investigation after worker poses for pic in hospital mortuary

Amelie Warnier's raunchy picture is now being investigated by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs her workplace Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex

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3 h. ago My family and I were sound asleep – then a tsunami swept our house out to sea

When Pedro Niada awoke to find his house tilting and filling with water, he was confused. He soon realised he was in a race against time to save everyoneJolted awake at 4.30am, Pedro “Peter” Niada was certain a meteorite had fallen near his seaside home, lifting it from its foundations and sending it flying through the air. He took two steps down the stairs, felt water splash his feet and realised the house was sinking.Nothing made sense. Why was the house tilting? Why could he hear what sounded like a waterfall outside? The sound of breaking timber led him to pull back the curtain at The Flying Fish (El Pez Volador), the 12-bed tourist lodge he had built by hand. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘Honest folk are paying for this’: the fight against Britain’s billion

From raids on marijuana farms to illegal bitcoin miners, suppliers are finding new ways to tackle the rise in gas and electricity theftMore British households struggling with bills will resort to energy theft, campaigners sayBy the time a team of police officers and engineers stormed a disused office block in Wigan, Greater Manchester, on a November morning last year, the building had been abandoned.Left behind were rooms filled with thousands of cannabis plants: a nursery on the first floor, the growing crop on the second, and leaves drying out on the third. The criminal gang behind the marijuana farm is thought to have fled after the grid operator cut off the stolen electricity used to power scores of LED lamps. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago UK drivers issued urgent £1,000 warning to anyone wearing wrist item

Motorists are warned they could face a £1,000 fine or a complete driving ban for wearing this common electronic device on their wrist

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3 h. ago DWP State Pension warning issued as thousands of Brits don't understand vital rule

According to new research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), there are "significant knowledge gaps" among Brits who are currently approaching retirement

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3 h. ago Luke Mitchell parole hearing postponed after killer's legal team request extra time

The ‘official’ Luke Mitchell Campaign confirmed the hearing was delayed at the request of Mitchell’s representatives, sparking anger and frustration from those connected to the case.

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3 h. ago Rubio, Witkoff, Kellogg to represent U.S. at London talks – Bloomberg

Rubio, Witkoff, Kellogg to represent U.S. at London talks – Bloomberg  Ukrinform

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5 h. ago Experts warn Trump’s trade war with China could erupt into a cold war

Earlier this month, Trump temporarily paused most tariffs while ratcheting up rates on China

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