30 m. ago Gilmore Girls star Elizabeth Franz dies aged 84 as tributes pour in for actress

Elizabeth Franz, who was best known for her role as Mia Bass in Gilmore Girls, has died at the age of 84 after a battle with cancer, her husband has confirmed

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40 m. ago Elizabeth Franz dead: Tributes pour in for Gilmore Girls and Death of a Salesman actress

Elizabeth Franz, who was best known for her role as Mia Bass in hit TV series Gilmore Girls, has died at the age of 84 after a battle with cancer, her husband has confirmed

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59 m. ago Dietary supplements recalled nationwide after 11 people sickened with salmonella

Three people have been hospitalized amid the latest salmonella outbreak

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61 m. ago Woman thought she was going to die as violent partner attacked

Aiden Ford, 30, kicked a bathroom door down to attack his partner, who though he was going to kill her.

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95 m. ago Country star Todd Snider dies aged 59 days after he said he had been the victim of a ‘violent assault’ in Utah

Singer was arrested for disorderly conduct, threats, and trespassing after disputing his hospital release following an alleged assault

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1 hour ago Four dead and five injured after boat capsizes off San Diego

Officials searched throughout the night for survivors after the boat capsized off Imperial Beach

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2 h. ago Elizabeth Franz dead at age 84: Broadway icon and Gilmore Girls actress passes away after cancer battle

Elizabeth Franz, the Tony-winning actress best known for her role in the 1999 Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, has died at 84.

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3 h. ago These parrots came to Los Angeles as pets – then went wild. Now scientists are unlocking their mysteries

Once escapees from the pet trade, Los Angeles’s feral parrots have become a vibrant part of city life, and could even aid conservation in their native homelandsA morning mist hung over the palm trees as birds chattered and cars roared by on the streets of Pasadena. It was a scene that evoked a tropical island rather than a bustling city in north-east Los Angeles county.“It feels parrot-y,” says Diego Blanco, a research assistant at Occidental College’s Moore zoology lab, nodding to the verdant flora that surrounds us: tall trees and ornamental bushes with berries. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Fantastic Ford steers battling England past All Blacks in Twickenham thriller

England 33-19 New ZealandBorthwick’s side clinch a perfect 10 of successive winsA perfect 10 wins in a row is a reliable indicator of a team on the rise. What England really craved, though, was a statement victory to underline just how far they have come in the past 18 months or so. And on a dull grey November afternoon they finally secured it, beating a disappointed New Zealand for the first time in south-west London for 13 long years.They deserved it, too, storming back from 12-0 down to claim the kind of result that rewards all the painstaking hard work of both the players and the management. There were four English tries in all, including two in the final half hour from Fraser Dingwall and Tom Roebuck, as Steve Borthwick’s team become only the ninth England side to cut the All Blacks down to size. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Beloved music star Todd Snider dies at 59 after violent assault

He recorded 14 studio albums and his songs included Alright Guy and Talking Reality Television Blues, covered by Sir Tom Jones.

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4 h. ago Boy dies at nursery after he was 'strangled by his own jumper'

An air ambulance was dispatched but the boy was pronounced dead at the scene before it arrived.

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5 h. ago Boy, 2, dies being 'strangled by his jumper' at nursery as locals grieve at gates

Leonardo Ricci was found by his playschool carers in Bibbiena, near Arezzo, central Italy. Locals were seen weeping outside the gates and a manslaughter probe has now been launched

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5 h. ago The full list of flood warnings currently in place in Wales as new ones issued

Four 'danger to live' severe flood warnings remain in place in Wales

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6 h. ago Sydney Hardeman dead at 25: Beloved Beyonce fan who went viral for concert reaction dies by suicide

Sydney Hardeman, the young woman whose stunned reaction to Beyoncé's 2018 Coachella performance went viral, has died by suicide at age 25.

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6 h. ago Mysterious Albanians, missing £7,000 cash and a call from a dead man's phone: British mother's search for truth after her son, 35, died in Spain as police close case

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Dryden, 35, died at his home in Mojacar on the Costa Almeria after leaving his workplace to meet two people in the afternoon of July 21, 2024.

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6 h. ago Tributes paid to ‘fearless and funny’ Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who has died aged 56

Cooke, who worked for the Observer for 25 years and was described as its ‘backbone’, was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year Tributes have been paid to the journalist and critic Rachel Cooke after her death from cancer.Cooke, 56, was diagnosed with the illness earlier this year and died on Friday. She worked for the Observer for 25 years, where she was described as “the backbone of the paper”. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Mum went to work at car dealership and 'left baby to die in hot car outside'

Temperatures reached 31C during the day of the baby's death in Georgia, USA

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7 h. ago Putin launches strike on apartment block home to Chernobyl survivors killing widow

Vladimir Putin's latest savage attack on Kyiv saw a missile hit an apartment block housing Chernobyl survivors killing Natalia Khodemchuk, 62, whose husband had died in the nuclear disaster

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7 h. ago ‘Hugely missed’: Tributes paid to Observer journalist Rachel Cooke

Cooke, 56, who worked for the Observer for 25 years, was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and died on FridayTributes have been paid to the journalist and critic Rachel Cooke after her death from cancer.Cooke, 56, was diagnosed with the illness earlier this year and died on Friday. She worked for the Observer for 25 years, where she was described as “the backbone of the paper”. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Rory McIlroy on course for ‘amazing’ end to season after late birdies in Dubai

The Northern Irishman is in pole position to win another title and the Race to Dubai crown.

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