8 h. ago At least 94 dead in Hong Kong housing blaze as rescue efforts continue for those still trapped

The fire was the worst in Hong Kong's recent history and has sparked a need to inspect renovation work to ensure materials used meet safety standards

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19 h. ago I'm a Celebrity fans 'heaving' as gruesome trial branded 'worst in show history'

I'm A Celebrity viewers were left 'heaving' as they branded a gruesome fish eye trial the 'worst in the history of the show' during Wednesday night's episode

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29 h. ago Donald Trump labels White House shooter an 'animal' as he takes brutal swipe at Biden

Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on Joe Biden following the identification of the suspected shooter of two guards by the White House, who he labelled the 'worst in the history of our country'

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3 d. ago I’m A Celebrity fans stunned as Aitch shrugs off worst challenge in show’s history

VIEWERS of I'm A Celebrity were absolutely stunned by how Aitch made easy work of the latest bushtucker trial. The Manchester-born rapper, 25, took part in what fans are branding as the "worst bushtucker trial in history" on I'm A Celeb, called "night night, sleep tight". Heading down to face his third trial of the...

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1 week ago Russell Tovey on pride, sexual power and politics: ‘The Green party slogan – make hope normal again – is what we need’

One of the most prolific and popular actors of his generation, he reflects on therapy, homophobia, why he suspects now is the worst time in history for trans people, and his secret life as a geekRussell Tovey’s best characters often seem to have it all together, typically as a barrier to further interrogation. Take his recent projects: in surreal BBC sitcom Juice, Tovey plays Guy, a buttoned-up therapist with a seemingly perfect life, hobbled by an aversion to recklessness. Then there’s the closeted Andrew Waters in award-winning American indie film Plainclothes, a well-respected married man of faith who secretly cruises New York shopping mall toilets. Even in the forthcoming Doctor Who spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea, Tovey’s character, Barclay, is an ordinary office clerk who is swept up into a planet-saving mission while trying to keep his family from falling apart. In each performance, Tovey anchors his characters with a beguiling mix of strength, empathy and vuln...

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1 week ago London businessman jailed for life after filming his sex attacks on women

Chao Xu, 33, may be one of worst sex offenders in British criminal history, police fearA businessman has been jailed for life for drugging women then subjecting them to sexual attacks which he recorded for his pleasure, as well as committing hundreds of other sexual offences.The Metropolitan police fear Chao Xu, 33, may be one of the worst sex offenders in British criminal history. The judge said his offending was “calculated and planned” and he posed a high risk to women. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago British state supplied victims to ‘worst sex offender in history’ as abuse continued unchecked at notorious detention centre

Investigation finds the ‘silence of many’ allowed widespread physical and sexual abuse to continue at Medomsley Detention Centre - as watchdog says victims deserve public apology

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2 w. ago SNP seize control of Stirling Council as opponents savage power

The new leader of Stirling Council has promised to tackle issues including anti-social behaviour and housing - but the Labour opposition have branded it the "worst start to any political administration in council history".

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2 w. ago Man suffered 'worst execution in history' with watchers sickened by agonising method

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Accounts of the most terrible execution in history continue to haunt centuries after they took place.

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2 w. ago Man suffered 'worst execution in history' with watchers sickened by barbaric method

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Accounts of the most terrible execution in history continue to haunt, with the condemned left 'roaring' in agony for two long hours of torment

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3 w. ago 'Worst serial killer' in history dies after slaughtering 13, including his own kids

One of America's most notorious mass murderers has died in prison after cheating death for a horrifying racism-fuelled bloodbath back in 1982, where he killed 13

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3 w. ago 'Worst mass murderer' in history dies after slaughtering 13, including his own kids

One of America's most notorious mass murderers has died in prison after cheating death for a horrifying racism-fuelled bloodbath back in 1982, where he killed 13

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3 w. ago ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisisIn 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage ($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains. Cities instituted water restrictions. That summer, unrelentingly hot temperatures killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and Yellowstone national park suffered the worst wildfire in its history.Amid the disaster, George HW Bush, then Ronald Reagan’s vice-president, met with farmers in Michigan reeling from crop losses. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, consoled them: if elected, he would be the environmental president. He acknowledged the reality of intensifying heatwaves – the “greenhouse effect”, to use the scientific parlance of the day – with blunt clarity: the burning of fossil fuels contr...

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3 w. ago Where does a western chemical plant that contaminated drinking water go next? To India

Miteni factory closed after water pollution scandal but machinery and patents were bought and rebuilt by Indian companyThe thick green jungle and rust-red hills of Lote, on India’s west coast, give way to a small hill where a factory looms against the sky.The factory is almost brand new, but its machinery is not: it comes from the former Miteni factory in Vicenza, Italy. Miteni closed down in 2018 after one of the worst environmental scandals in the country’s recent history: after decades of producing Pfas forever chemicals, the company’s management was brought to trial for contaminating water resources in an area where 350,000 people live. In June, its former executives were found guilty at the Vicenza court of assizes of causing environmental pollution and other charges and given prison sentences, which they are expected to appeal against. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’

Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuelsHarrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.In a blistering attack upon the president, Ford told the Guardian that Trump “doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me. The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.” Continue reading...

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