16 h. ago Murderer who shot dead Met sergeant Matt Ratana loses conviction and sentence appeal bids

De Zoysa was previously told he would die behind bars

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23 h. ago Michelle Obama reveals Barack's brutal three words after her mom died

As Michelle Obama and her brother, Craig Robinson, discussed their mother's death, Obama revealed the three brutal words her husband told her.

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44 h. ago Killer who sliced victim's throat and smacked inmate with pool cue dies behind bars

Kirk McIntyre, 56, was given a 20-year sentence in 2018 after being convicted of the 2017 murder of Frederick McGettigan in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire

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4 d. ago Teach youngsters about bootleg alcohol in schools... if we'd known the dangers, my friend might still be alive

Simone White, 28, was one of six tourists who died after a mass methanol poisoning at a hostel bar in Vang Vieng, Laos, last November.

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7 d. ago Scots charity chief 'inspired' by Pope Francis's dedication to children in poverty

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow met the late pontiff just weeks before he died and said the religious leader was an inspiration.

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7 d. ago Scots killer who brutally slit victim's throat and battered inmate with pool cue dies in jail

Kirk McIntyre, 56, died at HMP Shotts in North Lanarkshire on April 25.

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7 d. ago Scots dad dies from brain tumour after being told bizarre symptoms were 'stress

Barry Fair, 44, sadly died on April 23, 2024.

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8 d. ago Britain's Got Talent finalist says his lovemaking is 'fast, energetic, maybe a bit passionate' as he denies raping two women

Andrew Johnston, 30, who shot to fame on the show as a choirboy who came third in the final, allegedly gripped both his victims by the throat and refused to wear a condom.

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8 d. ago Paedophile scoutmaster who fled to Thailand and spent decades on the run will die behind bars after being jailed for 46 years

Richard Burrows, 81, 'ruined countless lives' as he systematically abused 24 boys across Cheshire and the Midlands between 1968 and 1995, a judge said today.

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8 d. ago Teenage 'hitman' is arrested after Swedish barber shop 'executions' saw three shot dead as they were having their hair cut amid spiralling gang violence in the country

Swedish police have arrested a teenager following a deadly barber shop shooting that saw three people die as they got their hair cut. 

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2 w. ago BGT star accused of 'gripping victim by throat' as he raped two women in months

Former Britain's Got Talent star Andrew Johnston, 30, was studying at the Royal Academy of Music when he allegedly raped two women in months apart, a court heard

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2 w. ago Britain's Got Talent finalist raped two women, grabbed them by the neck and refused to wear a condom, court hears

Andrew Johnston, 30, allegedly gripped his victims' by the throat during sex and refused to wear a condom.

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2 w. ago Britain's Got Talent finalist raped two women while he studied opera at the prestigious Royal Academy of Music, court hears

Andrew Johnston, 30, allegedly gripped his victims' by the throat during sex and refused to wear a condom.

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2 w. ago Scots killer who boasted prison was 'doddle' dies of drug overdose behind bars

Brendan Reilly, 34, was being held at HMP Kilmarnock where he was discovered unresponsive in his cell.

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2 w. ago ‘Touching the soul is all that matters!’ The outrageous genius of Barrie Kosky and his Wagner phantasmagoria

He put Carmen in a gorilla suit and had Das Rheingold’s Erda represented by an 82-year-old naked woman. What are the the director’s plans for his edge-of-the-seat Die Walküre?From the Muppet Show to Kafka, Yiddish theatre to Vivaldi, pop music to Wagner – Barrie Kosky’s enthusiasms ricochet at a speed that leaves you dizzy as well as, in their rampant variety, a touch envious. This 58-year-old Australian theatre and opera director sees all art, all life, as one. His love of clowns, cabaret and musicals is as intense as his passion for theatre and grand opera. “Whether it touches the soul is all that matters,” he says, his loquacious personality expanding into a small side office at the Royal Opera House in London before a rehearsal. His new staging of Die Walküre, the second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle, openson 1 May .Kosky was born in Melbourne but has been based in Berlin for the past 20 years, where he was artistic director of the Komische Oper and still has an association there...

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2 w. ago Hiking couple swept to deaths in massive freak flood waterfall horror

Thassia de Almeida and Leone Barbosa died after they were swept away in a current caused by a storm surge at the Serra do Intendente State Park in Minas Gerais, Brazil

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2 w. ago Girl, 6, meets horrific fate after vanishing while playing outside her home... a year since sister was killed

Gracelynn Vick, 6, was reported missing on April 13 when her family could not find her for hours after she went to play in their Saucier farm's yard.

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2 w. ago Ross Kemp's Barbara Windsor discovery that made him immediately call her husband

Ross Kemp starred in EastEnders alongside Dame Barbara Windsor as loveable thug, Grant Mitchell, before the actress sadly died aged 83 from Alzheimer's

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2 w. ago Barry Hoban, British cycling legend and Tour de France icon, dies aged 85

Yorkshire-born cyclist won eight stages of Tour de FranceFamously beat Eddy Merckx at Gent-Wevelgem in 1974The pioneering British road sprinter and Classics rider Barry Hoban has died at the age of 85. Hoban was for many years the UK record holder for stage wins in the Tour de France notching up a tally of eight during his 17-year professional racing career, a total bettered only by the greatest sprinter of them all, Mark Cavendish, in 2009.Hoban’s first stage victory in the Tour, in 1967, was not one he cared to remember – or that he felt was really a win – as it came the day after the sudden death of his friend and rival Tom Simpson on Mont Ventoux; he was “permitted” to escape and cross the line first by the grieving peloton. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Barry Hoban dies aged 85 as tributes pour in for British cycling and Tour de France icon

Barry Hoban has died aged 85 following a successful career in cycling that saw him win eight stages of Tour De France and he remains the only British rider to win Gent-Wevelgem

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