28 h. ago Hundreds of mobile phones on burning bus intensified deadly fire that killed 20, reports say

Officials say lithium-ion batteries in smartphones aggravated fire that engulfed Bengaluru-bound bus last week

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34 h. ago Britain's DEADLY critters: Experts reveal the unsuspecting creepy crawlies that can kill you

When it comes to countries full of deadly critters, Australia, Brazil, or Japan might spring to mind. But experts warn that there are surprisingly deadly creepy crawlies right here in the UK.

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62 h. ago Furious crowds take to the streets demanding resignations on first anniversary of floods which killed hundreds in one of Europe's deadliest natural disasters

Demonstrators, many carrying photos of the victims, denounced the handling of last October's disaster and called on regional leader Carlos Mazon to resign.

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2 d. ago Could your holiday cocktail kill you? Foreign Office warns tourists over deadly methanol drinks in Mexico, Kenya and Japan that have already claimed nine lives

Brazil recorded a mass methanol poisoning earlier this month, leaving three dead, and the UK FCDO has doubled a list of countries it says have reported cases of bootleg booze poisoning.

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3 d. ago Truck driver in fatal Florida crash repeatedly failed driving tests, official says. What to know

A commercial truck driver who is charged with killing three people in a deadly crash in Florida in August had failed a commercial driver’s license repeatedly

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3 d. ago Moment bodies in suitcases killer arrested after dumping dead couple by bridge

WARNING DISTURBING CONTENT: Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, brutally killed Paul Longworth and Alberto Alfonso before stuffing their bodies into suitcases that he hauled from London to Bristol

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3 d. ago What REALLY killed Napoleon's army as they fled from Russia: Study of soldiers' teeth finds two deadly pathogens that 'ravaged French troops amid doomed invasion'

The French emperor's failed invasion of Russia in 1812 left more than 500,000 troops dead, with many long believed to have died from a mixture of the cold, starvation and disease.

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3 d. ago Celebrity Traitors: How Alan Carr went from a sweating bag of nerves to a cunning mastermind

The good-natured funny man has transformed into the show’s deadliest killer

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4 d. ago Hundreds of seal pups likely killed by deadly disease sweeping the globe

Heard Island would be the farthest that bird flu has reached in the Antarctic

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4 d. ago TikTok warning after schoolboy dies doing dangerous 'chroming' challenge

Oliver Gorman, 12, was killed after inhaling the potentially deadly gas from Lynx and Aldi deodorants.

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4 d. ago TikTok warning as boy, 12, dies in horrifying 'chroming' trend and secret teen emoji code

Oliver Gorman was accidentally killed after inhaling the potentially deadly gas from deodorants in a TikTok craze known as 'chroming' at his home in Greater Manchester

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5 d. ago He was stopped for driving 'erratically' – then police found his burner phone

Messages found on the father-of-two's burner phone showed he was selling cocaine in a range of different sized deals from 1.75g up to a quarter of an ounce

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8 d. ago Man BLAMES law enforcement for his deadly crash that killed beautiful college girl: 'You could've not chased me'

Donald Wayne Rownan, who was on parole, allegedly killed Paola Parbol Arredondo around 9.30am on October 15 in a car accident after he ran from law enforcement in Parkland, Washington.

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9 d. ago Migrant opens suitcase 'with dead girl, 12, she raped and killed inside' at busy bar

Chilling footage of a 12-year-old's alleged murderer was shown to jurors this week, filmed the day the suspect reportedly made cafe customers believe she was 'selling a kidney'

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1 week ago Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde

After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are weReading the extract from Virginia Giuffre’s tragic memoir in the Guardian this week, I was struck again by the fate of each of those people involved in that infamous photograph taken at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London house.The teenage girl at the centre of the picture is dead, having taken her own life at a remote Australian farmhouse earlier this year, unable to outrun her trauma. The person who took the photograph is dead, having somehow killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. The grinning woman in the background is in prison herself, exalting Donald Trump’s impeccable purity in the hope of getting moved to a nicer jail or even pardoned. And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which...

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1 week ago Gaza latest: Trump threatens to ‘go in and kill Hamas’ if violence continues amid delays over dead hostages

Families of Israeli hostages demand termination of ceasefire deal if Hamas fails to return the 19 bodies remaining in Gaza

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1 week ago Third suspect charged in deadly Alabama shooting that killed 2, injured 12

Police say a third person has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting that killed two people and injured 12 others in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city in early October

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1 week ago Managing Rangers – Hotline revolution in motion as two sinners told to bolt and legend tipped to join Muscat

The phones are red hot and Mark Pirie's ears burning with Muscat left as the last man standing for the Ibrox hot seat

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1 week ago Mystery as 26 killer whales wash up dead on beach and scientists don’t know why

It is believed to be the third known stranding of type D orcas worldwide

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1 week ago Black Phone 2 review – hit horror sequel lumbers toward Elm Street

Ethan Hawke’s child-killing murderer returns from the dead to become a joke-free, low-rent Freddy Krueger in a follow-up that leaves us coldArriving as the re-activated Stephen King machine was still churning out adaptations, quality be damned, The Black Phone felt like a lazy fanboy tribute. With its 1970s small town setting, high school cast, psychic kids and gnarly neighbourhood villain, it was close to pastiche and, like the very worst of King’s stories, it was also inelegantly overstuffed.Funnily enough the call came from inside the family home, as it was based on a short story from King’s son Joe Hill, over-extended into a film that was a surprise $161m hit. It was the story of the Grabber, a sadistic killer of young boys who would revel in elongating the ritual of their deaths. While sexual abuse was never mentioned, there was something inescapably queer-coded about the character and the historical touchpoints/moral panics he was clearly supposed to refer to, reinforced by Et...

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