13 h. ago EastEnders characters accuse Chrissie Watts of Christmas Day killing

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13 h. ago EastEnders Anthony Trueman star breaks silence after being killed off on Christmas Day

EastEnders legend Nicholas Bailey has been killed off after 25 years, with his character Anthony Trueman dying in an explosive Christmas Day episode

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15 h. ago Tragedy as man and his service dog killed in Lancashire canal barge blaze

A man and his service dog have tragically been killed on Christmas Day in a canal barge fire near Crooke Marina, Lancashire - this is a breaking story

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18 h. ago Major EastEnders star looks unrecognisable 14 years after leaving soap as he sports moustache and glasses

The star played a crucial role as one of the suspects in the whodunit episode Who Killed Archie Mitchell?, which aired on Christmas 2009.

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18 h. ago Suspected drunk driver accused of plowing into Navajo Nation Christmas parade and killing a 3

Under Navajo law, the suspect faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison

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20 h. ago Five members of same family tragically killed in Brazil Christmas Eve crash

A couple, their two children and the woman's sister died in a horror Christmas Eve car crash in Brazil after their vehicle collided with a BMW and burst into flames

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20 h. ago Man posing as Santa shoots girl in face then kills nine in Christmas massacre

Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, dressed as Father Christmas before committing the massacre.

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21 h. ago Five members of the same family including two children killed in Christmas Eve car crash

Luís Carlos de Souza Pinheiro, 36, and Paula Daniela Martins, 45, their children aged 12 and four, and Paula's sister Dulcinéia Lozano died after a car crash on Christmas Eve

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21 h. ago Man and dog killed as fire crews spend 13 hours battling Christmas Day barge blaze

A police investigation is underway

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22 h. ago Christmas Day LA shooting sees boy, 16, killed as four rushed to hospital

A shooting on Christmas Day has seen a 16-year-old killed after gunfire erupted in Antelope Valley, LA, as Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed four more were injured

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25 h. ago Man dressed as Santa shoots girl, 8, in face then kills nine in Christmas massacre

As Bruce Jeffrey Pardo unleashed a barrage of gunfire, relatives smashed through windows, hid behind furniture or ran upstairs. He then sprayed the room with accelerant, using a device made of two pressurised tanks, and within seconds, the house was ablaze

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35 h. ago 'Merry Christmas to all, including dead terrorists': Donald Trump announces Christmas Day ISIS strikes in Nigeria

US President Donald Trump declared via Truth Social that America launched Christmas Day strikes against ISIS terrorists in Nigeria who have been killing Christians

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35 h. ago Boy, 3, left an orphan at Christmas as parents and sibling killed on way home from party

A family of four were driving home from a Christmas party in Texas when they were involved in a head-on collision with a suspected drunk driver, killing three members of the family

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35 h. ago Trump launches Christmas Day strike on ISIS in Nigeria over ‘slaughter of Christians’ and warns of more to come

DONALD Trump said the US forces launched "powerful and deadly" strikes against ISIS in Nigeria over the persecution of Christians. The commander in chief said that the Department of War executed "numerous perfect strikes" on Christmas Day - and vowed more attacks if the jihadists "continued killing Christians in the country. Trump wrote on Truth...

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37 h. ago EastEnders' Christmas Special kicks off with brutal murder as villain is killed off after Queen Vic showdown

The BBC soap's first festive episode aired on Thursday night and revealed a huge bombshell for Zoe Slater, who discovered that both of her children survived birth and were still alive.

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49 h. ago Five dead in horror Christmas Eve helicopter crash on Africa's highest mountain

The helicopter crashed on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania on Christmas Eve, killing five people, including two foreigners who had been picked up in a medical evacuation

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49 h. ago Ukraine Russia war latest: Moscow launches 130 drones in Christmas night attack killing at least two

Vladimir Putin’s assaults on Ukraine have continued despite US and European efforts to seal a peace deal

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49 h. ago Brooklyn declares Nicola is ‘my everything’ as David dons Santa hats with Romeo & Cruz after estranged son’s ‘insult’

DAVID Beckham and his sons Romeo and Cruz have posed in Santa hats after eldest son Brooklyn’s hurtful insult as the family feud wages on. Matriarch Victoria Beckham took to her Instagram stories on Christmas Eve to share a picture of dad David standing in between sons Romeo and Cruz as the trio donned Father...

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53 h. ago ‘Wouldn’t it be lovely if I could shut up?’ Meet Lola Petticrew, TV’s most fearless actor

The award-winning star of Say Nothing and Trespasses refuses to play the fame game when they can fight government inaction. They open up on making amazing TV and why morals matter more than nice handbagsFew people are less daunted about the prospect of turning 30 than Lola Petticrew. “I used to be so afraid of getting old, and now I just think it’s the best thing ever,” they say. “I feel like I’m just coming into myself. And it feels fucking amazing. I think it’s such a fantastic thing to age – all the shit starts falling away and what you care about becomes more concentrated. I know what I want my life to be now, and I’m pretty stern on it. I don’t have to care about anything else.”They’re telling me this over Zoom from New York, where Petticrew is shooting Furious, the new show by Elizabeth Meriwether (New Girl, Dying for Sex). Petticrew plays a character who was sex-trafficked as a child and is now out for revenge, tailed by an FBI agent played by Emmy Rossum. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Mystery of five children 'killed' in Christmas Eve house fire whose bodies were never found

It started out as a joyous Christmas Eve at the Sodder home on December 24, 1945. Until a devastating house fire broke out and five of their children mysteriously perished.

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