8 h. ago Sutton Park death: Tragedy as body of teenage boy is pulled out of lake

West Midlands Police and West Midlands Fire Service led a huge rescue operation in Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield after a teenage boy got into difficulty in Powell's Pool

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21 h. ago 31 workers rescued after huge tunnel collapses in Los Angeles with them still inside

A portion of a huge industrial tunnel under construction in Los Angeles collapsed Wednesday

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28 h. ago 31 workers rescued after huge tunnel collapses in Los Angeles

A portion of a huge industrial tunnel under construction in Los Angeles collapsed Wednesday

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28 h. ago Tunnel collapse traps dozens underground and sparks major rescue mission in Wilmington, Los Angeles

More than two dozen people were miraculously rescued from after a tunnel collapsed in the Los Angeles suburb of Wilmington on Wednesday night.

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28 h. ago Major tunnel collapses and traps workers underground as huge rescue mission launched

A tunnel in Los Angeles has collapsed, reportedly trapping as many as 31 workers underground at the Los Angeles County Sanitation District site, as a major rescue operation is in full swing

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29 h. ago LA tunnel collapses trapping workers as rescue mission begins

Over 100 firefighters have been deployed to an industrial tunnel has caved in

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30 h. ago Part of a Los Angeles tunnel collapses, possibly trapping workers inside

A portion of a huge industrial tunnel under construction in Los Angeles collapsed Wednesday and up to 15 workers may have been trapped

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30 h. ago LA tunnel collapse LIVE: Workers trapped as shaft at construction site caves in

More than 100 firefighters have been deployed to Wilmington, Los Angeles, where an industrial tunnel - thought to be linked to the huge Los Angeles County Sanitation District operation - has caved in

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68 h. ago Johnny Vegas vows to 'be buried' with antique he refused to sell on new TV show

Little Shop of Antiques will follow the comic's mission to launch a new business

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3 d. ago Major UK tunnel on the verge of tolls to plug huge £820k funding gap

Debate has broken out following proposals to charge UK motorists for driving through a 61-year-old tunnel that attracts 25 million drivers, cyclists and pedestrians every year

Economics

6 d. ago ESA prepares mission to intercept 'mysterious visitors' as rare interstellar comet spotted

The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its bold "Comet Interceptor" Mission after 3I/ATLAS became the third interstellar object ever spotted

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7 d. ago Labour peer Lord David Lipsey found dead after police discover body in river

Officers confirmed the body of Lord Lipsey was pulled from the river on July 1 following a huge multi-agency rescue mission.

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8 d. ago US researchers launch new mission to solve mystery of Amelia Earhart’s fate

Researchers to follow fresh clues that suggest pioneering aviator may have crash-landed on remote Pacific islandA new mission to locate Amelia Earhart’s long-missing plane is being launched, researchers announced on Wednesday, following fresh clues that suggest she may have crash-landed on a remote island in the South Pacific.A satellite image may show part of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E protruding from the sand on Nikumaroro, an isolated island in Kiribati about 1,000 miles from Fiji, according to Richard Pettigrew, head of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, a non-profit based in Oregon. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Pictured: Girl, seven, who died after tree 'held up by metal poles' collapsed on top of her in park

Little Leonna Ruka, from Dagenham in east London, had been visiting family in Southend-on-Sea when she and several other children were trapped underneath a tree that partially collapsed.

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1 week ago How children's social worker, 27, led a double life running underground drug and gun network... and made vulnerable kids DELIVER for her

London social worker Chloe Scott, 27, boasted a dazzling CV centred around her experience in family safeguarding, protecting youngsters from harm.

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2 w. ago India, Poland and Hungary make spaceflight comeback with ISS mission

Countries send their first astronauts in decades into space on Axiom Mission 4, along with US commanderA US commercial mission carrying crew from India, Poland and Hungary blasted off to the International Space Station on Wednesday, taking astronauts from these countries to space for the first time in decades.Axiom Mission 4, or Ax-4, launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2.31am local time with a brand-new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US bombs Iran LIVE: Raging Iran fires missiles as Trump launches nuke bunker bomb mission

The US has officially launched an attack on Iran, with Donald Trump claiming he carried out a successful strike on three nuclear sites in the country as tensions rise in the middle east

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2 w. ago Fearful of Iranian missiles, many sleep in Israel's underground train stations

Families with young kids, foreign workers, and young professionals are seeking shelter in underground train stations in Israel

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2 w. ago Gary Neville launches mission to improve the UK's worst football pitches

The Best Worst Pitch initiative will provide line painting and pitch maintenance equipment, as well as maintenance training to 50 UK grassroots clubs

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3 w. ago First picture shows lorry that sparked 'major incident' in tunnel amid huge closure

The large vehicle was destroyed in the fire on the A55 Conwy Tunnel

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