44 m. ago Daredevil Felix Baumgartner 'died before he hit the ground' near children playing in hotel pool

Felix Baumgartner was killed while paragliding in Italy after suffering a cardiac arrest mid-air, with his paraglider crashing into a swimming pool at a resort

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67 m. ago UK town faces 'ketamine crisis' with soaring usage and 'bladder epidemic'

The drug, which comes as a clear liquid or a white or off-white powder, was originally developed as a powerful anaesthetic during the Vietnam war but has now become popular for recreational use

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2 h. ago ‘Our silence didn’t protect him’: daughter pleads for father on death row in Iran

Arrested in 2023 after helping those injured during Women, Life, Freedom protests, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri has been subjected to torture and a forced confession, say family and campaignersIn late October 2022, as protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody swept across Iran, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, a father of three, was racing through alleyways in the city of Bukan, in western Iran, carrying medical supplies to secret clinics where doctors treated injured demonstrators in defiance of the state.Many of the wounded were too afraid to seek hospital care after reports of secret police patrolling wards, interrogating patients and detaining injured protesters. By helping, Babamiri, a 47-year-old fruit and vegetable farmer, did not see himself as a revolutionary but simply as someone doing what was right, says his daughter, Zhino. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago I tried ketamine and it left me with marshmallow face and wearing nappies

Jack Curran, 29, first tried the illegal class B drug at 16 when his friends started experimenting with substances - and it ruined his life

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6 h. ago Police to use facial recognition cameras at Notting Hill Carnival in new crackdown on violence

Visitors to Europe's biggest street party will be scanned for wanted knife offenders, rapists, robbers and those suspected of serious violent crimes.

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7 h. ago How a Thai woman boasted about being showered in luxury gifts just hours before being arrested 'for filming herself having sex with monks to blackmail them out of MILLIONS'

Wilawan Emsawat, 35, known as Sika Golf, is accused of blackmailing some of the country's most senior monks by threatening to publicise photos and videos of them having sex with her.

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8 h. ago Wife of embattled Louisiana police chief charged in immigration visa fraud scheme also arrested

The wife of a Louisiana police chief, who was charged amid a sweeping federal investigation into an immigration visa fraud scheme, was also arrested on Thursday

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8 h. ago Former Voice of America employee arrested for threats against Marjorie Taylor Greene and her family

The alleged crimes occurred before President Donald Trump’s return to office

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10 h. ago Maryland man charged with threatening Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her family

A Maryland man has been arrested on charges that he made threatening calls to the Georgia offices of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

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11 h. ago Greater Manchester apprentice firefighter brags on a podcast that he was a drug cartel hitman who has killed 'more than 70 people'

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service commenced an investigation within 20 minutes of being alerted to the man's claims

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12 h. ago Moment police storm homes and arrest three men in child sexual exploitation probe

Properties were raided in Salford, Longsight and Oldham

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12 h. ago Almost 3,000lbs of cocaine discovered on ship headed for Spain

Almost 3,000lbs (1,300kg) of cocaine was seized on a container ship bound for Málaga, Spanish officials have said.

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12 h. ago Homeland security officials defend immigration court arrests after being sued

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is defending its policy of having Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrest people at their immigration court hearings after a group of immigrants and advocates filed a class-action lawsuit that seeks to stop the practice

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13 h. ago I didn't realise I was fighting police officers and I feared they'd beat me to death, Manchester Airport 'attacker' tells court

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, was filmed hitting two policewomen and a male officer who were trying to detain him for headbutting a passenger at a Starbucks café minutes earlier.

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13 h. ago Gregg Wallace's football hooligan history, special Millwall tattoo and arrest for assault

Gregg Wallace has stepped back from BBC show MasterChef following an investigation into historical allegations of misconduct, with the presenter previously being vocal about his hooligan past

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14 h. ago White House touts staggering decline in illegal migrant crossings at 'most dangerous' point in Panama

Activity at a deadly jungle choke point where thousands of migrants bound for America routinely imperiled themselves has come to a halt under Trump's border crackdown.

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14 h. ago Police arrest teen in connection with a paddleboarder's killing in a pond in rural Maine

Police in Maine say they have arrested a 17-year-old state resident in connection with the killing of a paddleboarder who went missing on a rural pond

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14 h. ago Drug dealer caught with £6,000 worth of cocaine in Paisley "given a chance"

Cops snared Charles Caldwell using ‘counter surveillance’ moves while officers followed his car.

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14 h. ago Record 8,000 US students have applied to UK universities amid Trump’s college crackdown

It marks a nearly 14 percent rise on the previous year and the highest total since records began

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15 h. ago Woman's chilling Facebook post weeks before she 'got lover to murder her Berkeley professor ex

Nadia Michelidaki, 43, and her boyfriend Christos Dounias, 35, were arrested this week for the shooting murder of UC Berkeley professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski.

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