55 h. ago Frantic search for woman in her 20s who gave birth then left newborn baby in hospital – as cops release CCTV

A FRANTIC search has been launched for a woman who left hospital after giving birth. Officers were called to the hospital in Romford, London, at around 5pm yesterday after receiving reports the woman had left the facility. Cops are becoming increasingly concerned for the woman's welfare as they desperately try to locate her. The baby...

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61 h. ago Woman told family she was going to NYE party before being raped, stabbed and burned alive

Two men received life sentences after pleading guilty to the brutal murder of Ashley Kline, a vulnerable 23-year-old woman with learning disabilities

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4 d. ago Pregnant woman sliced open, had baby cut out and then fled home holding her intestines in place

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: A woman escaped with her life when a woman who wanted her baby cut her open with a box cutter

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5 d. ago Pregnant woman slashed open in horrifying attack as she flees holding her intestines

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Brave mum-to-be escaped with her life after woman tried to cut unborn baby from her womb with box cutter

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6 d. ago Oklahoma man accused of shooting elderly neighbor dead during Christmas Day target practice

The woman was holding a baby when she was shot in the arm

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6 d. ago California woman delivers healthy baby after ‘essentially unheard of’ ectopic pregnancy

Suze Lopez found out she was pregnant only days before giving birth, due to fetus hiding behind 22lb ovarian cystA California family is celebrating their first holiday following the delivery of their latest child, a baby that had been growing outside of the mother’s womb.Suze Lopez, a 41-year-old emergency room nurse in Bakersfield, California, delivered baby Ryu via surgery in August, so the newborn is celebrating his first Christmas. He had been an ectopic pregnancy – when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the uterus – and was hidden behind a large ovarian cyst. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 'Confused' woman arrives at hospital carrying dead baby in backpack

Investigations are now underway to find out how a newborn baby discovered dead in a backpack died, with police having already taken one woman into custody

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7 d. ago 'Confused' woman shows up at hospital carrying dead baby in backpack

Investigations are now underway to find out how a newborn baby discovered dead in a backpack died, with police having already taken one woman into custody

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9 d. ago California woman gives birth to miracle baby boy – ‘The best gift ever’

Her pregnancy was an abdominal one, where the foetus grows in the abdomen rather than the uterus, a condition occurring in just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies

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9 d. ago Baby Reindeer star says woman ‘screamed in her face’ after watching Netflix show

‘In her defence she had just finished the series,’ said Jessica Gunning

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1 week ago Scots pensioner receives gift of sight for Christmas after life

David Watkins, 72, from Edinburgh had to sit in the dark and wear sunglasses all the time before he underwent surgery which has proved "miraculous" in just a few weeks.

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1 week ago Powerball jackpot jumps to $1.7 billion after another drawing with no big winner

The rollover means one lucky player could be in line to receive a life-changing windfall during the holiday season

Economics

1 week ago Man United youth star issues powerful message ahead of first Christmas since his father’s suicide

Rhys Bennett received the devastating news that his father had taken his own life in October

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1 week ago 'Britain's angriest man' who screamed abuse at female motorist after she beeped at him is jailed over fresh outburst at a mum and her newborn baby

Peter Abbott was cycling along a beach promenade when he got into an angry confrontation with a woman walking her new-born baby and her dog.

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1 week ago Johnson & Johnson owes $65.5 million to woman with cancer who used its baby powder

Earlier this month, a Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million to two women who claimed Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder caused their ovarian cancer

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1 week ago ‘There’s a sense of our freedoms becoming vulnerable’: novelist Alan Hollinghurst

A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty the author on a year of personal success and political changeIf there can be a downside to receiving a lifetime achievement award, it can surely only be the hint of closure it evokes. I put this as tactfully as I can to Alan Hollinghurst, this year’s winner of the David Cohen prize, which has previously recognised the contribution to literature of, among others, VS Naipaul, Doris Lessing and Edna O’Brien. It does have “a certain hint of the obituary about it”, he concedes, laughing. “So I’m very much doing what I can to take it as an incentive rather than a reward.”But there have been plenty of rewards recently. Hollinghurst was knighted in this year’s New Year honours list, a couple of months after the publication of his novel Our Evenings, the story of actor Dave Win’s journey from boarding school to the end of his life, which received rave reviews. In the Guardian, critic Alexandra ...

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2 w. ago Baby born on Scots bus after hero driver helped deliver child

The bus driver leapt into action to help deliver the baby when she heard a woman making worrying noises at the back of her McGill's 23 service

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2 w. ago Fury over 'paltry' sentence for killer who beat father to death after queue

Demiesh Williams, 30, was jailed for just five years for the fatal assault on Andrew Clark, 43, in Beckenham, south London

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2 w. ago South Shields school death tragedy as St Wilfrid's RC College left 'heartbroken'

A student at St Wilfrid's RC College in South Shields has tragically passed away following a medical emergency, despite the best efforts of emergency crews

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2 w. ago Moment woman suspected of kidnapping her baby 40 years ago is arrested

This is the moment police arrest a woman accused of kidnapping her child 40 years ago.

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