23 h. ago Iranian minister admits airstrikes caused 'excessive and serious' damage to its nuke facilities

Ayatollah Khamenei insisted the attacks had done 'nothing significant' to Iran's nuclear sites in an address that also saw him claim the Islamic Republic had 'defeated Israel' and dealt the US a 'slap'

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24 h. ago Iranian minister admits US airstrikes caused 'excessive and serious' damage to its nuke facilities

Ayatollah Khamenei insisted the attacks had done 'nothing significant' to Iran's nuclear sites in an address that also saw him claim the Islamic Republic had 'defeated Israel' and dealt the US a 'slap'

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4 d. ago Crufts gundog trainer allowed three dogs to bake to death after leaving them in Land Rover for seven hours on hot summer day, court told

Andrew Claridge-Fleming, 57, abandoned the dogs in crates in his Land Rover Discovery at a farm in Hampshire - and has now admitted causing unnecessary suffering.

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1 week ago 16 and Pregnant star Whitney Purvis misses son's funeral as cause of death is confirmed

A former star of 16 and Pregnant has claimed they were shut out of their son's funeral, but their ex and the child's dad has claimed she was invited as he revealed their son's cause of death

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1 week ago My unexpected Pride icon: as a bullied teenager, I found safety in slasher films

Watching mild-mannered schoolgirls overcome serial killers such as Freddy Krueger and emerge as survivors spoke to my younger self in a way no other films couldI have always been morbidly obsessed with the horror film genre. As a small child, I’d gaze up at the posters of Freddy Krueger or Pinhead in our local video rental shop with a curious mix of fear and desire. I wanted to be scared, and I also did not. I was 11 when Channel 4 screened A Nightmare on Elm Street. My poor mum, assuming it couldn’t be that bad if it was on TV, let me record it. I watched through my fingers, drunk on anxiety, the anticipation of the kills almost unbearable. There is, I would argue, something quite queer about this complicated urge. Horror is titillating.The golden age of the slasher movie was the 1970s and 80s. I’m sure film-makers were inspired by the cultural austerity of the Reagan era, the Moral Majority and the unfolding Aids crisis. But, as a child, I was blissfully unaware of those things or...

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1 week ago Chatty Man Alan Carr shares intimate body part that mosquitoes targeted on hols

The TV host revealed where he had been bitten during a trip to the Caribbean to Paul Hollywood which, in turn, caused the Bake Off host to admit he was worried about an upcoming holiday in St Lucia for the same reason

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2 w. ago Federal worker charged with capital murder in girlfriend’s forced abortion case

Police said the man put crushed-up abortion pills in his pregnant girlfriend’s drink leading to the death of her six-week-old fetus.

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2 w. ago Tory feuding fears as frontbenchers moan about Robert Jenrick interfering in their policy areas

Insiders have admitted that the shadow justice secretary's increasingly punchy interventions are causing tensions with colleagues.

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3 w. ago Man admits causing death of pregnant woman's unborn child in horror crash

Ashir Shahid struck a pregnant woman whose baby later died in hospital

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3 w. ago Mother who starved boy, 3, on extreme vegan diet admits her beliefs caused his death

A report revealed she now wished she had done more research about diet and healthcare

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3 w. ago Mother who starved boy, 3, on vegan diet admits her beliefs caused his death

A report revealed she now wished she had done more research about diet and healthcare

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3 w. ago Helen Flanagan's 'nightmare' return from Scotland following family trip to Glasgow

The Corrie star, 34, has admitted that her ban from driving has caused her chaos as she struggles to juggle life again as a single mum to her three kids Matilda, nine, Delilah, six, and four-year-old son Charlie.

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3 w. ago 16 and Pregnant star says ‘life is so cruel’ after death of 16

Young mother welcomed her son on the MTV reality show and said the devastating death was her ‘worst nightmare’ come true

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3 w. ago James Haskell admits what REALLY caused his marriage with Chloe Madeley to break down after 'dark and painful' final year

James Haskell's wife, Chloe Madeley, described their final year of marriage as 'dark and painful'. Now, the former England rugby star has admitted his love of boozing contributed to the demise of their union.

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3 w. ago Pregnant mum dragged to her death by crocodile while cooking in kitchen

Munirah, 28, was eight months pregnant when she was taken by the ferocious predator after a nearby river burst its banks and flooded her stilt home in Indonesia

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3 w. ago Pregnant reality star's tragic last Instagram post before horror gun attack

Teodora Marcu was shot dead in the street while holding her toddler in her arms. The reality TV star was 26 weeks pregnant at the time of her death

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3 w. ago How pregnant Rihanna is coping with the devastating death of her dad

Rihanna , who is currently pregnant with her third child, is reportedly struggling with the abrupt and heart-wrenching loss of her father Ronald Fenty.

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4 w. ago As Ice deports children, what futures do we lose? | Ariel Dorfman

I was forced to flee my homeland as a child; so were my own children. So the horror can be grasped by our celebrity-driven society: are we removing the next Mozart?Two children – a nine-year old boy and his six-year old sister – are playing at “house”, pretending to be their father and mother. Absorbed in the game, they repeat the words their parents have been whispering to each other when they thought their progeny were not listening.Playing like innocent children all over the world play and have played since the beginning of history. But, here and now, in America, the words some endangered children may be exchanging are far from innocent.Ariel Dorfman, an emeritus distinguished professor of literature at Duke University, is the Chilean-American author of the play Death and the Maiden and, more recently, the novels The Suicide Museum and Allegro. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Child and two others killed in horror M5 crash as motorway closes both ways

The M5 motorway has been closed in both directions following a horror crash in the early hours of this morning, which has left three people dead, including a child

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4 w. ago Heavily pregnant woman is dragged to her death by crocodile after it swam into her flooded home

Her sister rushed out of the room to find a weapon with which to beat the huge animal, but it had already dragged Munirah into the water by the time she returned.

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