5 d. ago Revealed: The huge surge in homeless people sleeping rough on streets that has swept the UK

Almost 300,000 people are now facing the 'worst' forms of homelessness amid a staggering 20 per cent rise in rough sleeping in just two years, according to the Crisis.

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5 d. ago Labour's early prisoner release scheme is fuelling 'shocking' rise in homelessness as rough sleepers surge by 20%

Almost 300,000 people are now facing the 'worst' forms of homelessness amid a staggering 20 per cent rise in rough sleeping in just two years, according to the Crisis.

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6 d. ago I saw Harold Shipman days before his suicide – he STILL thought he was untouchable, chilling behaviour proved it

HAROLD Shipman still "felt he was untouchable" before he took his own life, says a lawyer who encountered the prolific serial killer days before his death. Marcus Johnstone brushed shoulders with the ghoulish doctor - who murdered at least 250 people over 30 years - just prior to his death at HMP Wakefield, and says...

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1 week ago Children in Britain are being ‘fed to death’, TV doctor warns

Food often perceived as ‘healthy’, like yoghurt and cereal, can lead to people far exceeding their recommended calorie intake

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1 week ago A decade after Brazil’s deadly dam collapse, Indigenous peoples demand justice on the eve of COP30

Ten years after Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, the Indigenous Krenak people are still mourning what they call “the death of the river.”

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1 week ago Top TV doctor warns big food companies are ‘feeding our kids to death’

Professor Chris van Tulleken said people are ‘essentially forced to eat unhealthy food’.

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1 week ago Dick Cheney’s cardiologist talks cause of death and how the former vice president faced myriad of health issues

‘He was the most complicated patient I ever cared for,’ the doctor said of Dick Cheney

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1 week 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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1 week ago Country where people are best connected to nature revealed – as Britain is ranked one of the worst

Balancing spiritual evolution with technological development is key for countries to stay connected with nature, researchers say

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2 w. ago The worst cruise ship horror stories of people stranded at sea after woman left behind on island dies

Being abandoned while in remote surroundings is a terrifying ordeal. While cruise ships are technically allowed to leave passengers behind, it's still a frightening situation to be in.

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2 w. ago When the rains don’t come: how drought and endless dry seasons are changing life in Puntland – in pictures

October rains have been light across Somalia, a country which in recent years has found itself on the frontline of the climate crisis. The latest estimate is that 3.4 million people don’t have enough food. One of the worst affected areas is Puntland, where disappearing water sources, pasture and food supplies have forced many to abandon their way of life Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brazil: at least 60 reported killed in Rio’s worst day of violence amid police favela raids

Governor says city ‘at war’ after gunfights between troops and Red Command drug traffickers who reportedly used weaponised dronesAt least 60 people have reportedly been killed in Rio’s worst-ever day of violence as more than 2,500 officers and special forces stormed an area of favelas near Rio’s international airport that is considered the headquarters of one of Brazil’s most powerful organised crime groups.The predawn raid sparked intense gunfights in and around Alemão and Penha favelas, which are home to an estimated 300,000 people. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Heartbreaking decision after trainee doctor suffered 'worst death imaginable'

John Edward Jones tragically died in 2009 after becoming trapped in what is known as Nutty Putty Cave

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2 w. ago Chilling predicted number fatalities in Glasgow if nuclear attack launched on UK

A report has claimed that the UK could be vulnerable to a Russian nuclear attack, with up to a million people feared dead in the worst-case scenario in a number of UK towns and cities

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2 w. ago Trump cuts likely hindered warning process for Alaska storm that displaced hundreds, experts say

Reductions in weather balloon launches could have degraded forecasts that residents depend on to prepareA faltering federal response to one of the worst storms in Alaska’s history, which caused hundreds of people to become homeless, is drawing further scrutiny over the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle federal weather and climate protections.The powerful remnants of Typhoon Halong hit remote communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta of south-west Alaska on 12 October, inundating a vast low-lying area of tundra that is home to some of the most remote and inaccessible communities in the country. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump cuts probably hindered warning process for Alaska storm that displaced hundreds, experts say

Reductions in weather balloon launches could have degraded forecasts that residents depend on to prepareA faltering federal response to one of the worst storms in Alaska’s history, which caused hundreds of people to become homeless, is drawing further scrutiny over the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle federal weather and climate protections.The powerful remnants of Typhoon Halong hit remote communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta of south-west Alaska on 12 October, inundating a vast low-lying area of tundra that is home to some of the most remote and inaccessible communities in the country. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Woke' producers cut 'deaf, dumb and blind' line from The Who's Pinball Wizard in Live Aid West End musical

Fans have now accused the show's producers of 'wokery at its worst' and said people 'should boycott the show if the lyrics aren't reinstated'.

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3 w. ago Death of family doctor killed in crash on Fanshawe Park Rd. a 'profound loss'

Death of family doctor killed in crash on Fanshawe Park Rd. a 'profound loss'  CBC

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3 w. ago Disney is fighting in court to keep food test results under wraps in doctor’s family’s wrongful death lawsuit

Legal documents alleged that Disney even tried to keep the restaurant’s menu secret in the court battle

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3 w. ago 'I'm 'Doctor Death' and these are the worst ways people can die'

Australian forensic pathologist Roger Byard, known as 'Doctor Death', has been dealing with the macabre and morbid for decades - and has some grim advice

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