10 h. ago Boy, 11, killed by train on level crossing 'distracted by video on mobile phone'

Jaiden Shehata, 11, was watching videos on his mobile phone when he was hit by a Southern train travelling at 50mph, an investigation by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch found

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10 h. ago Tragic schoolboy, 11, was 'distracted' by video on his phone when he was hit by a train on level crossing

Jaiden Shehata had been walking to school when the tragic accident took place at around 8.03am on January 23 near Kenley, south London .

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12 h. ago Boy who died after being hit by train at crossing ‘was distracted by phone’

Jaiden Shehata was walking to school when the accident happened at about 8.03am on January 23.

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6 d. ago AWS outage live updates: Amazon Web Services goes down again leaving huge portion of the internet unusable

The reported outage comes after an AWS issue caused major websites to malfunction just over a week ago

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1 week ago Alaska Airlines LIVE: Huge delays as ALL planes halted at airports amid IT outage

Hundreds of thousands of Alaska Airlines passengers are stranded as the company, which operates flights across both the United States and Mexico, has suffered a technical glitch

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1 week ago Van driver was checking emails minutes before he killed 'loving' granddad in crash

Qabir Hussain, 54, had been using his mobile phone to check his emails just moments before he hit 85-year-old David Brooke as he crossed a road - killing the beloved granddad

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2 w. ago People woken up by beds becoming uncomfortably warm after huge internet outage

Amazon Web Services outage that took Snapchat and others offline also affected internet-enabled beds

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2 w. ago ‘I wanted to do something more meaningful’: the Chinese nationals fighting for Ukraine

Volunteers defy their government and public opinion in China to risk their lives for an adversary of Beijing’s main geopolitical partnerIn a war that has been characterised by merciless attacks on civilians, one of the worst took place on 8 July 2024. Russia missile strikes killed at least 43 people in cities across Ukraine in one of the deadliest days of the war last year. One of the most shocking blows was to the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv, which reduced the country’s largest paediatric clinic to rubble.Tim, 43, was delivering aid on the outskirts of Kyiv when he heard a missile fly overhead. A short while later, he saw the news on his phone that the children’s hospital had been hit. Along with a British friend, the Chinese national, who asked to be referred to by just his English name, rushed to the scene to help with the recovery efforts. “Seeing the severed limbs, some of them belonging to children, I started crying,” the father-of-two said, tears in his eyes...

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2 w. ago ‘I was doing nothing at home’: the Chinese nationals fighting for Ukraine

Volunteers defy their government and public opinion in China to risk their lives for an adversary of Beijing’s main geopolitical partnerIn a war that has been characterised by merciless attacks on civilians, one of the worst took place on 8 July 2024. Russia missile strikes killed at least 43 people in cities across Ukraine in one of the deadliest days of the war last year. One of the most shocking blows was to the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv, which reduced the country’s largest paediatric clinic to rubble.Tim, 43, was delivering aid on the outskirts of Kyiv when he heard a missile fly overhead. A short while later, he saw the news on his phone that the children’s hospital had been hit. Along with a British friend, the Chinese national, who asked to be referred to by just his English name, rushed to the scene to help with the recovery efforts. “Seeing the severed limbs, some of them belonging to children, I started crying,” the father-of-two said, tears in his eyes...

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2 w. ago Why was the internet down today? AWS explains Snapchat, Roblox, , Duolingo, Xbox outage

Major websites and mobile phone apps were hit by issues to start the working week 🚨🚨

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2 w. ago Huge Amazon internet outage leaves Snapchat, Reddit, banks and more not working: Latest updates

DownDetector has been flooded with huge spikes for many apps people use every day

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2 w. ago Internet down: AWS issues huge update on outage after internet hit by mass disruption

AWS has offered a major update on today’s (October 20) mass internet outage 🚨🚨🚨

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2 w. ago Huge internet outage leaves Snapchat, Ring doorbell, HMRC and more not working: Latest updates

DownDetector has been flooded with huge spikes for many apps people use every day

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2 w. ago Internet outage latest LIVE: Dozens of apps including Amazon, Zoom, Snapchat, HMRC and Lloyds Bank hit by online services crash

A huge internet outage has hit dozens of websites with banks, phone companies and major retailers among those affected.

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2 w. ago Huge internet outage: HUNDREDS of popular websites including Snapchat, Fortnite, and Duolingo are offline after Amazon Web Services goes down

An outage has taken down hundreds of popular websites including Snapchat, gaming platform Fortnite and languages app Duolingo.

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2 w. ago Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite and more go down in huge internet outage: Latest updates

DownDetector has been flooded with huge spikes for many apps people use every day

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2 w. ago Black Phone 2 review – hit horror sequel lumbers toward Elm Street

Ethan Hawke’s child-killing murderer returns from the dead to become a joke-free, low-rent Freddy Krueger in a follow-up that leaves us coldArriving as the re-activated Stephen King machine was still churning out adaptations, quality be damned, The Black Phone felt like a lazy fanboy tribute. With its 1970s small town setting, high school cast, psychic kids and gnarly neighbourhood villain, it was close to pastiche and, like the very worst of King’s stories, it was also inelegantly overstuffed.Funnily enough the call came from inside the family home, as it was based on a short story from King’s son Joe Hill, over-extended into a film that was a surprise $161m hit. It was the story of the Grabber, a sadistic killer of young boys who would revel in elongating the ritual of their deaths. While sexual abuse was never mentioned, there was something inescapably queer-coded about the character and the historical touchpoints/moral panics he was clearly supposed to refer to, reinforced by Et...

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2 w. ago The Inbetweeners star 'won't answer calls' from castmates as they plan huge reboot

One former The Inbetweeners actor seems to be avoiding his phone amid the huge reboot of the hit comedy series as his co-stars claim he doesn't answer their calls

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3 w. ago Vodafone confirms cause of huge internet outage amid angry demands for compensation

Customers vented their frustration on social media after Vodafone services went down for thousands yesterday

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3 w. ago Truck driver performing sex act behind wheel killed gran in crash

Coburn's vehicle veered across the road and hit a car while he was on his phone performing a sex act

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