5 h. ago Mounting calls for the doomed Bondi footbridge to be destroyed

'Don't let it become a monument,' Bondi residents warn as hordes of mourners flock to the site of Australia's worst mass shooting in decades.

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25 h. ago G7 calls for Jimmy Lai’s immediate release as pressure mounts on China

Joint statement expresses concern from likes of US, UK, Japan and Germany at ‘deteriorating rights, freedoms and autonomy in Hong Kong’

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3 d. ago Aussies call for Bondi Beach hero to be named Australian of the Year after he bravely disarmed one of the gunmen

Calls are mounting for the humble hero who bravely disarmed one of the Bondi Beach gunmen on Sunday to be named Australian of the Year.

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3 d. ago Mountain rescue teams are being inundated with callouts after influencers 'risk their lives' to take on daredevil routes

Rescue volunteers from Britain's busiest mountain rescue team have warned that callouts keeps going up 'exponentially', teams 'will not be able to respond' to every plea for help.

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1 week ago ‘It has to be genuine’: older influencers drive growth on social media

As midlife audiences turn to digital media, the 55 to 64 age bracket is an increasingly important demographicIn 2022, Caroline Idiens was on holiday halfway up an Italian mountain when her brother called to tell her to check her Instagram account. “I said, ‘I haven’t got any wifi. And he said: ‘Every time you refresh, it’s adding 500 followers.’ So I had to try to get to the top of the hill with the phone to check for myself.”A personal trainer from Berkshire who began posting her fitness classes online at the start of lockdown in 2020, Idiens, 53, had already built a respectable following. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago British teenager goes missing on hike near Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania

18-year-old George Smyth made call to Romania emergency services after getting into difficulty on mountain trek

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2 w. ago Calls to save cradle of modern football as fears mount over original Hampden site

Trust backs plans to safeguard future of Glasgow site

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2 w. ago BREAKING: Brit teen George Smyth missing in mountains after desperate call for help

George Smyth, 18, has disappeared in the Romanian mountains after making a desperate call for help - this is a breaking story

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2 w. ago Race against time to find British teenage hiker missing in Romanian mountains after he made desperate call for help

His mother, Jo Smyth, has now flown to Romania after the alert was issued for her son George, saying he was exhausted and suffering from hypothermia.

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2 w. ago 'Cryptic alliance means Andrew can hide from US prosecution under Donald Trump'

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor was called upon by the US Congress to testify regarding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein - but the former prince missed the deadline to respond

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2 w. ago Pressure mounts on Labour Government to call for release of two British businessmen 'forgotten' for 17 years in a UAE jail

Two leading human rights lawyers have written to Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper calling on her to personally intervene in the cases of Ryan Cornelius, 71, and Charles Ridley 66.

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3 w. ago Jeffrey Epstein 'planned for hitman to kill Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson'

Andrew Lownie, who wrote a book about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson called Entitled, claimed Epstein spoke to a 'hitman' who was a former British SAS member

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3 w. ago Mountain lovers called to help save 250 miles of path through Scotland’s treasured peaks

A major campaign is underway to protect Scotland’s mountains for future generations.

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3 w. ago Shocked US driver calls 911: ‘I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield’

Motorist told dispatcher ‘you may not believe me’ and said windshield was shattered while driving on North Carolina highwayA motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains national park.In a call to 911, the unidentified driver on US Route 74 in Swain county, near Bryson City, told a dispatcher that a bald eagle dropped the cat. Bryson City is about 65 miles south-west of Asheville. Continue reading...

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