47 h. ago Afghanistan earthquake UPDATES: Entire villages destroyed as 6.0 tremor kills 622

The massive earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan and destroyed villages and shook buildings from the capital Kabul all the way toward Pakistan's capital Islamabad

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62 h. ago Alan Titchmarsh 'packed a bag' and left home after wife broke heartbreaking news

Alan Titchmarsh has revealed the heartbreaking moment he left home after his wife Alison broke devastating news about the sudden death of his father

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4 d. ago Wall Street panics as key inflation gauge suggests tariffs will wreak havoc on prices

Core inflation rose last month, sending Wall Street into a spiral.

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6 d. ago EastEnders star on devastating moment her husband left her and she was 'penniless'

EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison has detailed the 'solid detective work' she had to do to uncover her husband's affair before being left 'penniless'

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9 d. ago EastEnders star Cheryl Fergison reveals the devastating moment she found her husband in a 'dingy love nest' with another woman

The actress, best known for her role as hapless Heather Trott in the BBC soap, divorced first husband Jamshed Saddiqi in 2008 after his infidelity with another woman was exposed.

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1 week ago Moment devastating flood tears through village after massive glacial burst sends massive wall of debris hurtling down mountain

The clip, shot from a hillside opposite Talidas village in Ghizer, northern Pakistan, captures walls of muddy water smashing through fields and roads on Friday morning.

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1 week ago Moment massive landslide crashes into the sea in Santorini engulfing village with dust as tourists watch on

A huge section of land suddenly gave way in the clifftop village of Imerovigli on Sunday afternoon after intense construction activity made the ground unstable.

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2 w. ago Swansea City set for massive sponsorship deal as plans for fans' village emerge

The Swans chief was in attendance at the latest Fan Forum

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3 w. ago Exiled child returns to Miami’s Freedom Tower: ‘They massacred my teddy bear’

Having fled Castro’s Cuba at age five, Jorge Malagón Márquez honors the landmark reopening in SeptemberJorge Malagón Márquez’s first sighting of Miami’s iconic Freedom Tower, the so-called Ellis Island of the south for its role in processing more than half a million Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro’s communist revolution, was through a flood of tears.It was May 1967, and his family had just arrived from Havana on one of the first so-called Freedom flights ferrying refugees allowed to escape the dictator’s tightening grip on the island. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Leave it to nature’: how enticing insects to kill off pests helped cut reliance on pesticides

While working to stop bollworms destroying cotton crops, Dr Robert Mensah wondered whether other insects could provide a solutionWhile trying to come up with a pesticide solution to kill off bollworms, Dr Robert Mensah had his eureka moment.It was the 90s, and in Australia bollworms were devastating cotton farms, with the larvae of these moths chomping up the crops faster than farmers could eradicate them. The farmers were trapped in an arms race with the bollworms, applying more and more pesticide to combat an increasingly resistant species of pest – killing many beneficial insects in the process. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago About 100 people missing as flash flood tears through town in northern India

Large-scale search and rescue operation under way after at least four people killed in Himalayan regionA torrent of mud from a flash flood has smashed into a town in India’s Himalayan region, tearing down a mountain valley before demolishing buildings and killing at least four people, with about 100 others missing.Videos broadcast on Indian media showed a terrifying surge of muddy water sweeping away blocks of flats in the tourist region of Dharali in Uttarakhand state. Continue reading...

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