11 h. ago 'Laos shots killed my best friend and I almost died too, we had no idea what was wrong'

Bethany Clarke, 27, and her best friend Simone White, 28, met in Laos, Southeast Asia, for the trip of a lifetime, but after consuming vodka shots that are thought to have been tainted with methanol, it ended in tragedy

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59 h. ago British tourist, 34, is killed and his friend critically injured in horror motorbike crash in Bali

The holidaymakers were riding home from a night out in Buleleng Regency on the Indonesian island when they collided with a six-wheeler truck

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6 d. ago Sabalenka ousts former doubles partner Mertens to reach Wimbledon quarter

World No 1 forced to work hard for 6-4, 7-6 victory Siegemund next up after win over Solana SierraTennis players often say it’s hard to play against a friend, the killer instinct never quite as easy to call on as it might be against someone else. Aryna Sabalenka, the world No 1, has rarely had that problem, but she was pushed hard by her former doubles partner Elise Mertens before ­winning through 6-4, 7-6 (4) to reach the quarter-finals.Mertens had won just two sets in their past nine matches but played as good a match as she has ever done at Wimbledon, and still came out on the wrong side. Sabalenka hit 36 winners and made just 18 unforced errors, coming from 3-1 down in the second set to set up a quarter-final against Laura Siegemund of Germany. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Harvey Willgoose's best friend told police after schoolboy's death that his killer, 15, was 'always carrying a weapon'

Harvey Willgoose, 15, suffered fatal injuries when another pupil stabbed him on their lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield on February 3.

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8 d. ago Sophia Hutchins dead at 29: Caitlyn Jenner's friend killed in horror ATV accident near reality star's Malibu home

Caitlyn Jenner's longtime friend Sophia Hutchins has died at 29 following a horror ATV accident near the reality star's Malibu home.

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9 d. ago British tourist and her friend are killed by charging elephant during safari trip

Eastern Province Police Commissioner Robertson Mweemba said the victims were attacked by a female elephant that was with a calf at South Luangwa National Park.

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1 week ago British woman, 43, is killed in Costa del Sol jet ski crash after being hit by speedboat driven by friend 'who then failed a breath test'

A British woman has been killed in a jet ski accident on the Costa del Sol.

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2 w. ago Neighbour 'who was paid £1,500 to hire a hitman to kill his friend's wife blew the cash on holiday to Benidorm'

Paul Lewis, 54, from Swansea is accused of handing over the cash to Dominique Saunders, 35, to arrange the murder of his ex-wife, Joanne Atkinson-Lewis.

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3 w. ago Teenager jailed for killing school friend in east London park

The teen was found guilty of the manslaughter of 15-year-old Pharrell Garica

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3 w. ago I’m A Celeb star Scarlette Douglas reveals she narrowly avoided doomed flight that killed close friend

The A Place in the Sun host admitted that air travel still fills her with fear

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3 w. ago A Place In The Sun star Scarlette Douglas reveals she was meant to be on fatal plane crash that killed 228 people including her close friend

Scarlette revealed she was meant to be on a doomed Air France flight which tragically crashed and killed more than 200 people - including her close friend.

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3 w. ago A Place in the Sun star Scarlette Douglas was meant to be on plane which crashed and killed her friend

Former I'm A Celebrity star Scarlette opened up about her fear of flying after she was supposed to be on the doomed Air France flight.

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3 w. ago Lillie Clack: Distraught friend tells of terror before 100mph car crash that killed ‘popular princess’

Drunk driver Charlie Hilton, 25, was being chased by police before his Mercedes hit a tree and burst into flames in south London

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3 w. ago How the right spread ‘brutal and cruel’ misinformation after Minnesota lawmaker killings

The rightwing media ecosystem spins up narratives to serve their agendas after tragic events, regardless of accuracyTina Smith, a Minnesota senator confronted Mike Lee, a Utah senator, on Monday to tell him directly that his social media posts fueled ongoing misinformation about a shooting that killed her friend.Lee’s posts, which advanced conspiracies that a Minnesota assassin was a “Marxist” and blamed the state’s governor for Melissa Hortman’s death, were among many threads of false or speculative claims swirling online after the killings. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago NATALIE LISBONA: As sirens wail I text a friend in her shelter. She tells me a missile has just killed seven... it could easily have been us

A day of strikes which begins in the early hours of Sunday morning...with the hideous, piercing shriek...that means a fresh Iranian attack is imminent, writes Natalie Lisbona (left) in Central Israel

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3 w. ago Gunman on loose after killer in TERRIFYING Halloween mask launches political assassinations and friend reveals who he voted for

Terrifying new images show the suspect behind Saturday's 'politically motivated assassinations' wearing a creepy Halloween-style mask while launching his killing spree.

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4 w. ago 'Iced coffee killer' smiled as best friend drank cyanide and died in brutal death

Murderer Jessica Wongso was said to be so jealous of her pal Wayan Salihin, who had just got married, that she exacted a deadly revenge. Her sickening act was caught on CCTV

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4 w. ago Air India victim, 4, mourned as her friend 'keeps asking when she'll come home'

Akeel Nanabawa, his wife Hanaa Vorajee and daughter Sara were tragically killed onboard the Air India flight 171 - a close friend of the family has revealed that little Sara was just about to turn five

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last month Confessions of a Parent Killer review – a grisly tale of the murderer who lived with her mum and dad’s corpses

This look at Virginia McCullough tells a deeply strange story. Unfortunately, it also leaves the viewer in suspense about her motive for so long it feels horrifically manipulativeWell, what do you think a 90-minute documentary entitled Confessions of a Parent Killer is going to be about? That’s right, well done! It’s the story of a murder by an (adult) child of her parents. Virginia – Ginny – McCullough killed her mother, Lois, and father, John, and confessed immediately to police when they raided her home in 2023 that she had done so four years previously. The twist was that she had been living with their bodies ever since. “She was weird at school,” says a childhood friend. “But not ‘kill your parents and hide the bodies’ weird.”You can probably tell from such unimpeachably phlegmatic commentary that this case occurred in England. Great Baddow, Essex, to be exact, and the film paints a portrait of quintessential small-town, almost-rural life in these sceptred isles that has gone u...

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