23 h. ago US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive

Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%The world is on track for disastrous global heating – but this will create profits for some air conditioning companies, according to forecasts by leading Wall Street financial institutions.Recent reports by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and the Institute of International Finance all make clear the finance sector considers the Paris climate agreement limiting global temperatures, signed a decade ago by nearly 200 nations, is effectively dead and investors should plan accordingly. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Mother arrested after dead baby found inside Marks and Spencer bag outside London church

The mother, in her 30s, remains in hospital as detectives investigate how the baby boy died

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3 d. ago Mother arrested after dead baby found inside bag outside London church

The mother, in her 30s, remains in hospital as detectives investigate how the baby boy died

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3 d. ago Heavy hand of the law: Couple arrested for criticising their daughter's school on WhatsApp and a forager is warned over mushrooms... while robbers are on the loose

It comes after officers handed out a warning letter to a woman for alleged mushroom picking and a mother and father were arrested for criticising their daughter's school over WhatsApp.

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3 d. ago Heavy hand of the law: Couple arrested for criticising their daughter's school on WhatsApp and a forager is warned over mushrooms... while robbers are on the lose

It comes after officers handed out a warning letter to a woman for alleged mushroom picking and a mother and father were arrested for criticising their daughter's school over WhatsApp.

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3 d. ago Baulkham Hills stabbing: woman arrested and three children in hospital after alleged attack in Sydney suburb

Two girls, boy in stable condition and 46-year-old woman under guard in hospital after alleged attack in Baulkham HillsElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA mother has been arrested after she allegedly stabbed her three children multiple times in their home in Sydney’s north-west.New South Wales police Det Supt Naomi Moore said on Monday that the children’s father woke to yells in their Baulkham Hills home, and secured the kitchen knife from his partner. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Heavy hand of the law: Couple arrested for criticising their daughter's school on WhatsApp and a forager is warned over mushrooms... while robbers are on the lose

It comes after officers handed out a warning letter to a woman for alleged mushroom picking and a mother and father were arrested for criticising their daughter's school over WhatsApp.

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5 d. ago Connecticut woman accused of holding stepson captive for 20 years pleads not guilty

The 32-year-old paints a picture of two decades of severe abuse, while his stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, denies all wrongdoing, writes Josh Marcus

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7 d. ago Mother arrested after leaving toddler in freezing cold car while she went on 'romantic rendezvous'

Lillian Johnson, 38, was charged with first-degree child endangerment after she allegedly left her 20-month-old child 'abandoned in a car' parked car outside a bar and hotel in Healy, Alaska.

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8 d. ago Man arrested after his mother, 92, found living in ‘deplorable’ conditions with 38 cats

The animals were taken in by nearby rescue facilities

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9 d. ago What happens when the US declares war on your parents? The Black Panther cubs know

The Black Panthers shook America awake before the party was eviscerated by the US government. Their children paid a steep price, but also emerged with unassailable pride and burning lessons for todayFred Hampton Jr was days away from taking his first breath when his father was assassinated. Still in his mother’s womb, he would have sensed the shots fired by police into his parents’ bedroom at the back of 2337 Monroe Street, Chicago.He would have absorbed the muffled screams, felt the adrenaline rushing through his mother’s veins, been jolted by her violent arrest. Could he also have somehow sensed the moment of his father’s death? Continue reading...

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1 week ago A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her

Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through ‘one of the most dehumanizing’ experiences of her life as a new front opens in the silencing of pro-Palestinian voicesUmaymah Mohammad has wanted to be a doctor for as long as she remembers. She traces her ambition to the story of her mother, one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel to Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and who contracted polio as a toddler. Despite living with the debilitating disease, Mohammad’s mother went on to raise five children and obtain a graduate degree in the US.It’s the story of a woman who “overcame unbearable medical circumstances”, Mohammad said. It also taught the Palestinian American about “the sociological determinants of health”, she said, as Mohammad believes displacement contributed to her mother catching the disease, due to the poor sanitary conditions entire communities of Palestinian refugees faced at the time. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sick mum, 30, arrested for forcing own son to wear electric shock dog collar

The child came to school with visible marks on his body from an electric shock collar, leading to the arrest of his mother and grandmother

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1 week ago Britain's oldest rescue cat saved from horrific conditions seeks new home in Scotland

Cleo, the oldest rescue cat in the UK, was saved from horrific hoarding conditions.

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1 week ago Daughter arrested after elderly mother with dementia killed by dog attack

Jessica Hoff had a total of 54 dogs and seven birds in her possession, according to sheriff’s deputies

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1 week ago Mother of baby Callum told her husband 'it is what it is, I f*****g did it' after she was arrested for suffocating newborn to death

A near three-decade quest to identify a newborn baby whose body was left in woodland was finally solved after the infant's DNA matched with his brother, a court heard.

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1 week ago The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba review – playing for their lives

The remarkable story of conductor Alma Rosé and the musicians who survived the Holocaust by performing amid horrific conditionsWhen 13-year-old Pearl Pufeles disembarked from the cattle car at Auschwitz in March 1944, she was surprised to hear the strains of Dvořák and Smetana wafting towards her. “Gosh,” thought the Czechoslovakian schoolgirl, “this can’t be that bad if they play music here.” But it was that bad and, indeed, so much worse. Pearl and her twin sister Helen were swiftly selected as laboratory fodder for Dr Josef Mengele’s grotesque medical experiments.It isn’t clear which orchestra Pearl had heard that day. Auschwitz was a 15 sq mile complex with multiple sub-camps and there were at least six “official” orchestras staffed by prisoners who had been funnelled into southern Poland from all over Europe. Some of these orchestras concentrated on the classical repertoire, albeit without the Jewish composers Mendelssohn and Mahler. Others specialised in Sunday ...

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2 w. ago Nicholas Prosper gives emotionless police interview after murdering family

Nicholas Prosper gave an emotionless “no comment” interview to police after he was arrested for the murders of his mother, Juliana Falcon, 48, and his younger siblings, Giselle, 13, and Kyle, 16, in Luton in September 2024.

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2 w. ago Special needs teacher exposed for abusing pupil, 15, after mum made horror discovery

Special needs teacher Christina Formella, from Illinois, USA, has been accused of molesting a 15-year-old pupil in a classroom. She was arrested after the boy's mother went on his new phone

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2 w. ago UN human rights chief voices horror at Israel’s new Gaza strikes

Volker Türk calls for immediate end to violence and unconditional release of hostagesMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe UN’s human rights chief has voiced horror at Israel’s resumption of airstrikes on Gaza that have killed at least 404 people, saying further misery was being inflicted on people “already suffering catastrophic conditions”.In a statement on Tuesday Volker Türk said he was horrified by Monday night’s airstrikes and shelling in Gaza. The decision to resume shelling in effect ended the fragile ceasefire that has paused the violence in the devastated Gaza Strip since mid-January. Palestinian authorities reported 404 deaths by about noon local time, nine and a half hours after the strikes began. Continue reading...

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