3 d. ago Chinese scientist charged with smuggling pathogen into US to be deported

Yunqing Jian, temporary researcher at University of Michigan, was studying organism harmful to some cropsA Chinese scientist charged in Michigan with smuggling biological materials pleaded guilty on Wednesday, but was given no additional time in jail beyond the five months she already spent in custody.Yunqing Jian, who was a temporary researcher at a University of Michigan lab, will be released and quickly deported. A judge called it a “very strange” case involving an “incredibly accomplished researcher”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Mentally ill people are stuck in jail because they can't get treatment. Here's what's to know

Fernando Clark spent the last 10 months of his life in an Alabama jail cell, waiting for court-ordered psychiatric treatment

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4 d. ago 'I spent three months living on ISS and discovered space has a distinct smell'

Nicole Stott spent months of her life as an astronaut working on the International Space Station for NASA, and now she has revealed some of the more bizarre questions people have

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5 d. ago When I met Craig he was 13 and homeless. I still thought his life might turn around. I was tragically wrong

I knew he was running away from something. It wasn’t until many years later that I discovered the truthCraig was a runaway when I first met him. Missing from a local children’s home, he spent his days hanging out in Nottingham city centre. He had just turned 13 and he was tall for his age, easily recognisable with his blond hair, but he seemed invisible to the authorities.No one was looking for him or the other dozen children who congregated on the market square. Most of them had absconded from care, some were dodging school. A few, like Craig’s mate Mikey, just didn’t bother going home. The youngest runaway, Mark, claimed he’d been missing from foster care for months and had spent his 12th birthday on the run. They were glad to have found each other and for a week or so they slept together in an alleyway. Craig organised bedding. He had picked up some tips from the experienced rough sleepers, he told me, as he collected cardboard he’d stored behind a bin. “Keeps the cold off your b...

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1 week ago I was sold the Dubai dream then left for good after 2 months – I made more cash but it’s so soulless & fake

A British day trader and real estate agent who spent two months living in Dubai has revealed why he couldn’t wait to leave, describing the glitzy hotspot as “soulless” and “fake”. TikToker Charlie Smith, known online as @itscharliesmith, shared with his followers that despite earning record profits while living in the UAE, he packed up...

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1 week ago British teen drug mule Bella Culley toasts bread over a candle and makes salt and pepper chicken behind bars, her mother claims

The British teenager has spent five months behind bars after she was found with £200,000 worth of cannabis in her luggage when she arrived in Tbilisi in May.

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2 w. ago Retired banker ‘proud and exhausted’ as he completes 200 marathons in 200 days

Steve James, 66, has spent the last seven months completing a 5,240-mile course along the British coast.

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2 w. ago Felony dropped after a man spent a month in a Tennessee jail for a Charlie Kirk post

Authorities in Tennessee have dropped a felony charge against Larry Bushart, who spent over a month in jail for a Facebook post about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

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2 w. ago 'Fake pregnancy mum' who fooled family with toy baby 'goes into hiding'

Kira Cousins, from Airdrie in Scotland, fooled her her loved-ones into believing a plastic doll was her newborn baby having spent months wearing a fake bump

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2 w. ago Is M&S’s £30 pan as good as Our Place’s viral £125 always pan? I found out

I spent four months testing the multifunctional pans in my own kitchen

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2 w. ago Fake baby scandal 'mum' Kira Cousins denies starting fundraiser to cover new life

Kira Cousins, from Airdrie in Scotland, fooled her her loved-ones into believing a plastic doll was her newborn baby and spent months wearing a fake bump before pretending to give birth alone

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2 w. ago Inside couple's impressive 'Harry Potter' Airbnb you can stay in for £150 a night

Stewart and Lucy Farmer spent four months creating The Wizards Cauldron in the Cornish countryside

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3 w. ago Trump has spent 700 percent more on deadly weapons for ICE this year

Immigration agency spent more than $70 million in the first nine months of the year on small arms and ordnance as it ramped up its crackdown on undocumented migrants, data reveals

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3 w. ago Trump has spent 700 percent more on deadly weapons for ICE this year. Here’s what they now have

Immigration agency spent more than $70 million in the first nine months of the year on small arms and ordnance as it ramped up its crackdown on undocumented migrants, data reveals

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3 w. ago Bella Hadid shares a series of racy underwear snaps from behind the scenes at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show amid rising health fears sparked by her 'fragile return' to the runway

The model, 29, recently spent a month undergoing treatments for chronic neurological Lyme disease -a condition where bacteria causes negative neurological symptoms such as fatigue.

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3 w. ago The Beijing courier who went viral: how Hu Anyan wrote about delivering parcels – and became a bestseller

Like so many others, his days have been spent in the gig economy, moving from one precarious job to another, often tied to a gruelling 996 shift pattern. He discusses the harsh realities of modern working life in China, and far beyondHu Anyan is not a fan of online shopping, but, as he discovered during the months he spent as a courier in Beijing, plenty of people are. Not long into the job, he was assigned to delivering parcels to a large construction site. He didn’t have to deliver that many – 10 to 20, most days – but getting them to their rightful owners wasn’t always easy. There was a crane driver who was often in the air when Hu arrived. He would ask him to come again the next day, only to be found in the sky again.“In the end,” Hu writes in his memoir, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing – which is being published in English for the first time this month – “it would take several trips” to deliver this man his parcel. “But this didn’t dampen his passion for online shopping....

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3 w. ago 'I was diagnosed with a brain tumour two weeks after giving birth'

Lisa Wootten spent the first few months of her son's life in and out of hospital

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3 w. ago Woman investigated over husband’s use of assisted dying clinic wanted to argue case in court

Louise Shackleton says current law is traumatising families and she wanted jury to assess her innocenceA woman who was under police investigation for accompanying her husband to an assisted dying clinic in Switzerland said she wished her case had gone to trial so she could have proved her innocence in front of a jury.Louise Shackleton, 59, spent 10 months under investigation for assisting a suicide before North Yorkshire police announced this week that the Crown Prosecution Service had decided it was not in the public interest to prosecute her. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Omaze boss reveals staggering amount he has spent buying UK houses to give away monthly

The CEO of Omaze, a company that gives away a luxury house in the UK every month, has revealed exactly how much he has spent buying up the dream properties

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