26 m. ago IT consultant jailed after flying from UK to Syria in bid to die for Jihad

Isa Giga, 32, was jailed after he quit his job and travelled to Syria to 'fight for jihad' when the country was in the middle of a deadly civil war

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30 m. ago What REALLY killed Napoleon's army as they fled from Russia: Study of soldiers' teeth finds two deadly pathogens that 'ravaged French troops amid doomed invasion'

The French emperor's failed invasion of Russia in 1812 left more than 500,000 troops dead, with many long believed to have died from a mixture of the cold, starvation and disease.

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42 m. ago Woman jailed after screaming 'I want to kill her' as she attacked own mum in hospital

Medical staff at Doncaster Royal Infirmary heard Susan Hardwick, 65, cry 'I want to kill her,' as they struggled to stop her pushing a pillow over her mother’s face

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44 m. ago Napoleon’s soldiers who died in Russian retreat had unexpected diseases, study finds

Bacteria for paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever found in DNA from teeth of troops buried in mass graveWhen Napoleon ordered his army to retreat from Russia in October 1812, disaster ensued. Starving, cold, exhausted and struggling with sickness, an estimated 300,000 soldiers died.Researchers now say they have identified two unexpected diseases among soldiers who died in the retreat – paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever – which provide fresh insights into their plight. Continue reading...

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64 m. ago Bodies in suitcases killer gets life after singing and dancing following double murder

Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, has been sentenced to life with a minimum of 42 years in jail.

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65 m. ago Who is Ghetts? London grime star charged after 'hit and run' victim dies

UK grime star Ghetts, real name Justin Clarke-Samuel, has been charged following a fatal hit-and-run incident in east London, leaving a 20-year-old victim dead

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77 m. ago 'You'll have to clean the toilets yourself,' Jeremy Clarkson warned peer planning to open a charity pub

Baroness Monckton is about to launch a pub in Brighton with her charity Team Domenica, which supports young people with learning disabilities

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81 m. ago The harrowing true story behind Netflix's The Monster Of Florence as crime drama about Italy's most notorious serial killer rockets up the charts

The four-episode Italian drama, directed by Stefano Sollima, hit the streaming service on October 22 2025.

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81 m. ago Boy, 12, dies after 'TikTok challenge' tragedy in his bedroom

Oliver Gorman, 12, was found unresponsive in his bedroom, just hours after arriving from a holiday in Wales

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88 m. ago Loose Women's Charlene White says she has spent 'many hours' trying to understand why her father took his own life as heartbroken star says 'final goodbye' at funeral

The Loose Women star took to Instagram on Friday as she revealed the family said a final goodbye to her dad Denniston this week with two services and a huge wake.

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92 m. ago Double killer who murdered couple and tried to dump bodies from Clifton Suspension Bridge jailed for life

Yostin Mosquera to serve minimum of 42 years in prison for murder of couple in bid to steal their west London home and savings

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1 hour ago She took chickens that were going to die in a factory farm. Was it a rescue or a crime?

Zoe Rosenberg, a California student, is on trial over a tactic that animal rights activists consider a moral imperative. Critics say its a threat to the food supplyOn a Monday afternoon in late September, Zoe Rosenberg, a 23-year-old University of California, Berkeley, student, emerged from a courtroom in Santa Rosa, California. Flanked by her lawyers, she moved briskly through the courthouse corridors, past more than 100 prospective jurors.Pinned to her black blazer was a tiny silver chicken, glinting on the lapel. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Double killer who murdered couple and tried dump bodies from Clifton Suspension Bridge jailed for life

Yostin Mosquera to serve minimum of 42 years in prison for murder of couple in bid to steal their west London home and savings

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1 hour ago Moment emergency services have to push Indian President’s helicopter after it lands on freshly poured concrete

This is the moment emergency services have to push the Indian President’s helicopter off freshly poured concrete after its landing on a new helipad.

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2 h. ago Wall Street hits record highs after US inflation report fuels interest rate cut hopes – business live

US consumer prices rose by less than expected last month, as markets digest breakdown of trade talks with CanadaUS prices rose at a 3% annual rate in September, slightly beating forecastsNewsflash: Conditions appear to be improving in the UK economy this month.The latest poll of purchasing managers at British firms has found that growth is picking up after the lull in September, partly helped by the resumption of manufacturing at Jaguar Land Rover after its recent cyber attack.“October’s flash UK PMI survey brings hope that September was a low point for the economy from which business conditions are starting to improve.Output has picked up, with a particularly welcome return to growth for manufacturing for the first time in over a year accompanied by an upturn in demand for services, notably among consumers. Business confidence has also brightened slightly, job losses have moderated, and inflationary pressures are coming back to levels consistent with the Bank of England’s 2% target...

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2 h. ago Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution

The experimental annex of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its homeSomething is rotten in Swedish theatre. In front of Elverket – a former power station that for much of the last 30 years has been at the centre of Stockholm’s experimental dramatic output – posters proclaim that theatre is dead. Inside the former turbine hall, either side of a red chandelier-lit platform surrounded by contorted bodies, Hamlet and Ophelia, brilliantly played by Gustav Lindh and Gizem Erdogan, are furiously channelling the rage of a generation, loudly hitting the walls with bars. In the play’s final seconds, gravediggers give way to builders dressed in high-vis come in to cover the stage in tarpaulin and start work.This adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, not so cryptically subtitled The Death of Theatre, is the venue’s last ever theatre production before it is shut down. Dramaten, the roy...

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2 h. ago Killer who murdered couple and dumped their bodies in suitcases on Clifton Suspension Bridge jailed

Yostin Andres Mosquera was filmed dancing and singing in the aftermath of the attack

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2 h. ago Colombian killer who murdered couple and dumped their dismembered bodies in suitcases at Clifton Suspension Bridge is jailed for at least 42 years

Yostin Mosquera, pictured while attempting to dispose of the remains of his victims in suitcases at Clifton Suspension Bridge, was handed two life sentences for murder in court today.

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2 h. ago Man who murdered couple and dumped bodies in suitcases given 42 years

Yostin Andres Mosquera was sentenced on Friday afternoon for the murders of partners Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth

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2 h. ago Huge haul of illegal weight loss jabs seized in record raid at UK factory

The operation on the outskirts of Nottingham also uncovered tens of thousands of empty pens and raw chemicals

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