4 h. ago ‘People here are as strong as concrete’: the stunning architecture of war

A new architectural guidebook was written as a love letter to the Ukrainian city – then Russia started bombing it. How will this home to Tetris-like offices and daring curved cinemas be rebuilt?When the Derzhprom building erupted on to the Kharkiv skyline in the 1920s, it must have seemed like an impossibly futuristic vision. Standing like a gleaming white concrete castle, it curves around the circular plaza of Freedom Square in the city’s centre.Built as the state industry headquarters of what was then the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, it looks like a three-dimensional game of Tetris, a mighty nest of chunky oblong forms stacked, rotated and interlocked to form a colossal administrative pile. Striding across three city blocks, and towering almost 60m high, it was the tallest office building in Europe for several years, its humungous floor plates connected high up in the air by thrilling sci-fi skybridges. It was far ahead of its time, prefiguring the brawny br...

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4 h. ago Killer in the nest: how young storks are being strangled by plastic

Researchers in Europe found everyday plastics, especially farmers’ baler twine, being used by the birds as a building material and entangling their young. It is a problem that affects other species too, say experts in the US, UK and ArgentinaOn a late spring morning in the farmlands of southern Portugal, Dr Marta Acácio set her ladder against a tree and began to climb. Four metres up, she reached the giant white stork nest that was her goal. She knew from telescopic camera shots there was a healthy looking chick inside – and now she wanted to ring it.But when Acácio, an ecologist from University of Montpellier in France, tried to scoop up the chick, it would not come away: it was tethered to the nest by a piece of plastic baler twine. She turned the chick over and recoiled: its belly was a mass of maggots. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Family's fury as Scots child killer goes free after almost 50 years

Alexander Miller killed the brother and sister and was held for 49 years in secure mental facilities.

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7 h. ago Peter Falconio killer Bradley John Murdoch just 'a couple of days' from death

Peter Falconio's killer has entered his final days of life as the convicted murderer is 'in and out of consciousness, very groggy and 'not comprehensible'.

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14 h. ago Serial killer Ian Brady 'wrote twisted autobiography' which may help find victim

Moors Murderer Ian Brady allegedly wrote a sickening account of his killing spree - which included details of his first brutal murder, it has been claimed by a victim's family member

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20 h. ago Dead body found with gold teeth 'could be Russia's most prolific serial killer'

Police in Russia have found the dead body of a man with mouthful of gold teeth - matching the description of what could be the country's most prolific serial killer

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21 h. ago How to make perfect bún chả – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect

Smoky, succulent pork patties, rice noodles, fistfuls of herbs and a super-savoury dipping sauce: is there a perfect way to cook possibly the perfect noodle dish? Let’s find out When I visited Hanoi a decade ago, I was living in Hackney, east London, an area with a large Vietnamese community, so I felt, if not quite an expert, at least a little familiar with the cuisine. But it turned out no number of nights out on Kingsland Road could prepare me for the assault on the senses that was my first meal in the city, crouched on a plastic stool by the roadside and enjoying what Uyen Luu describes as “the irresistible sweet, treacly smell of barbecued patties and caramelised pork”, all mingled with traffic fumes.The stall in question served one thing only: bún chả, a northern speciality of juicy chargrilled pork, cold, slippery rice noodles, sweet yet deeply savoury nước chấm dipping sauce and fistfuls of aromatic herbs. “About as typical and unique a Hanoi dish as there is,” as Anthony Bo...

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22 h. ago Thug caught on camera strangling, slapping and shoving his girlfriend in drunken rages

WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE. Ryan Grundy, 35, from Newcastle, became violent towards his partner Gemma Laidler, 40, shortly after they first met in 2021.

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23 h. ago Local postman, 49, waited five years for terminal cancer diagnosis after GP dismissed rare killer tumour as 'ingrown hair'

A local postman from Milton Keynes was diagnosed with stage four incurable cancer after doctors dismissed it for an infected hair follicle.

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28 h. ago Never plant 'silent killer' flower in garden despite its beautiful colours

British gardeners have been advised to reconsider planting this popular blossom beloved for its bright petals over fears it may wilt during the UK's extreme heat

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35 h. ago Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses

The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic

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37 h. ago 'Killer' teen's chilling comments are revealed after she was charged with murdering her mother and stepfather

Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, had curated a chilling portrait of grief on social media for months after allegedly shooting her mother Kristin and stepfather James Brock dead back in February.

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37 h. ago Mushroom killer Erin Patterson locked up with toxic lesbian inmates

Erin Patterson, 50, killed three of her relatives with a deadly death cap mushroom-laced beef Wellington and has somehow already landed a job in the prison kitchen

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42 h. ago Would you pay £78 for the new ring that means you never need to remember your debit card again?

No need to flash the plastic with one of these on your finger. Michael Odell tries the latest way to pay.

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50 h. ago 'It me feel I'd gone one up on 007': Michael Odell tries out a contactless payment ring

No need to flash the plastic with one of these on your finger. Michael Odell tries the latest way to pay

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52 h. ago 'I tried the viral Flying Dutchman burger which comes with plastic gloves and it was immediately obvious why'

'This is meat, cheese, onion and not much else'

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58 h. ago The equestrian trio who covered for a killer: Beautiful, young Katie was raped and murdered by her sister's jockey boyfriend, then betrayed by 'friends'... now one confesses her shame

Jonathan Creswell charmed everyone he met, and if anybody suspected that his wide smile and knowing strut masked a profoundly sinister side, then they said nothing.

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61 h. ago London father allegedly strangles girlfriend, child calls 911

London father allegedly strangles girlfriend, child calls 911  FOX 56 News

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63 h. ago Remorseless serial rapist SMILES as he is jailed for 22 years after strangling women he sexually abused and controlled

Amateur American Football player George De Bathe, 25, from Chichester, raped and abused five young women before blaming their injuries on rough sex.

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64 h. ago Meat cleaver killer who brutally murdered sex worker is granted private parole hearing because HE fears facing her grieving mother

Stephen Wynne, 47, murdered 27-year-old mum-of-three Chantel Taylor, a sex worker, by striking her in the neck and then dismembering her body with a saw.

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