60 h. ago Israeli troops are accused of executing two 'surrendering' Palestinian men as IDF 'reviews' horrific footage

Israeli troops have been accused of executing two unarmed Palestinian men they suspected of being terrorists who surrendered during a raid in the West Bank. 

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6 d. ago Gardener facing life in jail after a jury took less than 27 minutes to find him guilty of breaking the neck of his teacher lover after she threatened to leave him

Trudi Burgess, 57, was left paralysed from the chest down when Robert Easom, 56, flew into an 'uncontrollable' rage and attacked her.

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6 d. ago Shirley Ballas reveals Strictly stylist saved her life after she choked on a fishbone minutes before Blackpool live show

A Strictly Come Dancing judge revealed she “couldn’t breathe” and “almost didn’t make it” just 20 minutes before the Blackpool special on Saturday (22 November).

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7 d. ago Man, 50, is charged after three house fires saw two teenagers and a woman rushed to hospital

The man, 50, has been charged with three counts of arson with intent to endanger life after he set the houses on fire within 15 minutes shortly after 7am on Friday in Ashby-de-la Zouch.

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8 d. ago ‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition

The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novelFifteen years ago, discussing the success of his six-volume autofictional work My Struggle on Norwegian radio, Karl Ove Knausgård said he felt as if he had “actually sold my soul to the devil”. My Struggle had become a runaway success in Norway – a success that would subsequently be repeated across the world – but the project provoked anger in some quarters for its portrayal of friends and family members. This was a work of art that came at a price. Hence, for its creator, its Faustian aspect.That experience lies at the root of Knausgård’s latest novel, The School of Night, the fourth volume in his Morning Star sequence, in which his typical character studies and fine-grained attention to the minutiae of daily life are married to a compelling supernatural plot involving a mysterious star appearing in the sky and the dead returning to life. Volumes one and three, The Morn...

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8 d. ago Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctorsAs Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Pictures unite!’: how pop music fell in love with socialist infographics

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education. As a new exhibition shows, it ended up influencing pop art, graphic design and electronic musicians from Kraftwerk to OMDWhen Otto Neurath died in Oxford some 80 years ago, far away from his native Vienna, he was still finding his feet in exile. Like many a Jewish refugee, the economist, philosopher and sociologist had been interned as a suspected enemy alien on the Isle of Man, along with his third wife and close collaborator Marie Reidemeister, having chanced a last-minute life-saving escape from their interim hideout in the Netherlands across the Channel in a rickety boat in 1940.Thanks to Neurath’s pioneering use of pictorial statistics – or “Isotypes” as Reidemeister called them, an acronym for “International System of Typographic Picture Education” – he left behind an enormous legacy in the arts and social sciences: it is the language through which we decode and an...

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2 w. ago Death row inmate found unresponsive in his cell hours after his life was spared in last

Death row inmate Tremane Wood, 46, was discovered unresponsive in his cell just hours after learning he was granted a last-minute reprieve from execution.

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2 w. ago Oklahoma death row inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution today in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Oklahoma inmate’s life spared moments before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution on Thursday in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate just before scheduled lethal injection

Republican Kevin Stitt commuted Tremane Wood’s death sentence to life in prison for 2002 murder of Ronnie WipfAfter a controversial trial, an Oklahoma man makes a final plea to avoid executionTremane Wood, the 46-year-old death row inmate who faced execution today in Oklahoma, has had his life spared just minutes before he was set to receive a lethal injection.Kevin Stitt, the state’s Republican governor, accepted the Oklahoma pardon and parole board’s recommendation that Wood’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without parole. It is just the second time during Stitt’s nearly seven years as governor that he has granted clemency. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Death row inmate’s life spared minutes before scheduled execution

Wood was sentenced to die for his role in the stabbing death of Ronnie Wipf, a 19-year-old migrant farmworker

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2 w. ago TikTok star Mariam Cisse, 22, executed by 'jihadists' on livestream as horrified family watch

Mariam Cisse, who had hundreds of thousands of followers online, has been kidnapped by suspected jihadists and executed during a livestream in Mali

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2 w. ago TikTok star kidnapped and executed by 'jihadists' in front of horrified family

Mariam Cisse, who made and shared comedic videos about living in an unstable country with her 90,000 followers, was kidnapped and shot dead in a public square in front of her family

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3 w. ago 'I survived a botched execution, it was the most horrifying 45 minutes of my life'

Thomas Creech was already serving a life term when he beat another prisoner, 22-year-old David Dale Jensen, to death in 1981 - a crime for which he was to be executed

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4 w. ago Train stabbings: Police issue major 6pm update saying 'one man is only suspect'

Train passengers locked themselves in toilets and cowered with makeshift weapons during the eight-minute knife rampage that left two people fighting for life

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4 w. ago Liverpool mayor reveals how a last minute Hillsborough ticket swap saved his life

Liverpool city mayor Steve Rotheram swapped tickets with an unknown man so that person could sit with his friends - and he still doesn't know what happened to him

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last month Harry was a Canary Wharf banker who owned two horses and grew up in Paris. Then OLIVIA TYMPSON checked his phone

When I woke up early the morning after our two-year anniversary, I was conflicted to see my boyfriend Harry's phone sitting on the bedside table. Within minutes, my life imploded.

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