45 h. ago Retired detective found dead in hoarding conditions in Connecticut, months after she went missing

A retired Connecticut police detective who went missing last year was found seven months later buried under debris in hoarding conditions in her home

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50 h. ago Nudist resort resident accused of beating elderly neighbors to death with rake and hammer had ‘snapped’ over hot dog, prosecutors say

The dismembered remains of Daniel Menard, 79, and Stephanie Menard, 73, were discovered buried beneath Michael Royce Sparks’s home

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4 d. ago Dig begins for the remains of 800 children believed to have been buried at Irish 'mother and baby home' where bodies 'were dumped into sewage tank called The Pit'

Pre-excavation work began on Monday ahead of a full-scale dig to try to identify hundreds of children who died at the home in Tuam, Co Galway between 1925 and 1961

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5 d. ago Man dead and girl, 8, in hospital after massive flat blaze destroys top floor and roof

Around 40 people were evacuated from their homes due to the fire, which has left one man dead.

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2 w. ago Operation Spiderweb: Satellite images show Russian bombers destroyed in massive Ukrainian drone attack

Satellite imagery confirm extensive damage to Russian aircraft on the Belaya airfield in Russia’s Irkutsk

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2 w. ago Operation Spiderweb: Satellite imagery shows Russian bombers destroyed in massive Ukrainian drone attack

Satellite imagery confirm extensive damage to Russian aircraft on the Belaya airfield in Russia’s Irkutsk

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2 w. ago ‘This is ground zero for Blatten’: the tiny Swiss village engulfed by a mountain

‘The memories preserved in countless books, photo albums, documentation – everything is gone,’ says village’s mayorFor weeks the weight had sat above the village, nine million tonnes of rock precariously resting on an ancient slab of ice. A chunk of Kleines Nesthorn mountain’s peak had crumbled, and its rubble hung over the silent, empty streets of Blatten, held back only by the glacier. The ice groaned beneath the pressure.On Wednesday afternoon, in an instant, it gave way. The ice cracked, then crumbled. The entire mass descended into the valley below, obliterating the village that had been there for more than 800 years. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘As we explored, we noticed this huge cow’: Jennifer Newitt’s best phone picture

High above a Swiss mountain village, an American holidaymaker found herself enchanted It was the last day of Jennifer Newitt’s holiday in the Swiss Alps, and she and her husband were hankering after one more excursion before their flight home to the US. High above Wengen, the village they were staying in, they noticed the Grindelwald–Männlichen mountain gondola cableway. Despite pouring rain, sunshine was forecast for later in the day, so they decided to give it a go.“The rain stopped shortly after we arrived at the small cable car station, and we began the 15-minute walk to the summit. Because of the conditions, we had the mountain to ourselves for a while. As we explored, we noticed this huge cow.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Tina, come home’ – husband’s appeal to wife who was buried in their house

Richard Satchwell made a number of media appeals after claiming his wife Tina had gone missing.

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3 w. ago Man remains missing after a Swiss glacier collapsed and destroyed 90% of an Alpine village

A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before

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3 w. ago Astonishing new footage shows the moment Swiss village is buried by falling glacier, obliterating houses

Video shows a huge cloud of ice and scree spewing over the Swiss village of Blatten on Wednesday, dwarfing tiny Alpine lodges as a chunk of the Birch glacier broke off

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3 w. ago Terrifying video captures moment massive glacier crashes down mountain and buries village

The shocking video showed the moment part of a huge glacier smashed through a village after it raced down a mountainside in Switzerland - one person has been reported as missing

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3 w. ago Moment village is buried and homes destroyed as massive glacier crashes down Swiss mountain: Urgent search operation launched

At around 3:30 pm local time, a huge collapse occurred on the Birch Glacier, emergency services in the Wallis region said.

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3 w. ago Moment village is buried, with 'many homes' destroyed when massive glacier crashes down Swiss mountain

At around 3:30 pm local time, a huge collapse occurred on the Birch Glacier, emergency services in the Wallis region said.

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3 w. ago I dug up old items previous home owners buried in my garden... this is what I found but nobody can figure out what the last item is

Writing on Reddit , one account user from the UK shared pictures of 'rubbish' items that they had uncovered beneath their shed.

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