12 m. ago Legendary singer Connie Francis dies aged 87 following recent hospital admission

The legendary pop and country singer's death was confirmed by her friend Ron Roberts on Thursday, just weeks after Connie was admitted to hospital in Florida.

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17 m. ago Drone footage shows Israel’s huge missile strike on Syria’s military HQ

Israel has released drone footage of a huge missile strike on Syria’s military HQ on Wednesday (16 July).

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23 m. ago US Senate backs $9bn in cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid

NPR and PBS would lose federal funding under measure that now goes back to House of Representatives

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32 m. ago Alaska tsunami warning sends community scrambling for high ground after 7.3 magnitude earthquake

A tsunami warning in Alaska has forced local communities to evacuate to higher ground following a 7.3 magnitude earthquake.

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56 m. ago Liam Payne's heartbroken sister sends message nine months afer 'lives changed forever'

The later One Direction star's sister, Nicola, spoke out nine months after her brother's tragic death

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61 m. ago Coronation Street Billy's death 'confirmed' as someone on cobbles is 'set to kill him off'

Coronation Street fans have been left convinced they know who will murder Billy Mayhew in an 'explosive' exit storyline

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80 m. ago Joaquin Phoenix apologises for ‘horrible’ David Letterman interview: ‘I’ll never do it again’

Oscar winner appeared in character from ‘I’m Still Here’, leading many to believe he was having a mental breakdown

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1 hour ago Moment man dumps rats outside Sheffield mosque in hate crime

This is the shocking moment a man releases rats outside a mosque in Sheffield as part of a series of racially motivated hate crimes.

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1 hour ago ‘I can’t believe not everyone catastrophises!’: Liz Stokes of Kiwi band the Beths on anxiety, ambition and being anti

The New Zealand indie band have had a charmed rise – but behind the scenes, their frontperson was dealing with Graves’ disease and depression. Digging deep helped her realise not everything can be fixedIn January 2023, as flash floods hit Auckland, New Zealand, Oakley Creek was destroyed: trees upturned, bridges ripped out and dragged downstream, the riverbank collapsed. Like many locals, Liz Stokes, songwriter and guitarist in indie four-piece the Beths, had walked there often during the pandemic. “It’s jarring to see this place that’s never going to be the way it was, the way you remembered it,” she says over video in late June.She catches herself. “I say the creek was destroyed, but the creek did the destroying also. It’s just nature. It was interesting seeing change happen very quickly in real time.” Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Mural 'immortalising' Diogo Jota painted on a pub in Liverpool following tragic death

A street mural dedicated to the late Diogo Jota has been painted in the Anfield area after the Liverpool forward's tragic death earlier this month

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3 h. ago Inside horror house where grandparents beat a toddler to death: Despicable abuse and starvation was missed by social services, daughter reveals

Harrowing video footage, filmed just ten days before Ethan's death, shows him walking with a strange, knock-kneed gait and falling over, barely able to hold up his own head.

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4 h. ago Killer inmates on America's harshest death row get rare privileges and incredible new perk

The program allows the selected prisoners to spend several hours a day outside their cells and allows them to enjoy communal meals, TV time, prayer circles and - for the first time in decades - direct human contact

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4 h. ago Humble peasants or an odyssey of sex and death? The Millet masterpiece that electrified modern art

Van Gogh saw compassion for the rural worker; Dalí saw phalluses and a child’s grave. As The Angelus comes to the UK, our critic celebrates a painting so deep it could even induce hallucinationsIt was Salvador Dalí who turned a small, intense rural scene called The Angelus, painted by Jean-François Millet in 1857-59 and hugely popular in its day, into a totem of modern art.In the original, a pious peasant couple have heard the Angelus bell from a distant church, the Catholic call to prayer, and paused their work digging potatoes to lower their heads and pray. But from Dalí’s writings, we know he saw far more in the painting, from obscene sex to family tragedy. In one of his many versions of it, Atavism at Twilight, the couple sprout agricultural implements from their bodies. In his surreal drawings these good country people become mouldering, mummified husks, or are transformed into fossils by time and sadness. Now that the original painting is being lent by the Musée d’Orsay to the...

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7 h. ago Dramatic footage shows a shoplifter being chased by police and threatening to jump from the side of a pier

Michael Thompson was spotted in Chatham by police and then chased towards Sun Pier before he tried to climb over the set of railings near the river.

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7 h. ago America's harshest death row grants killer inmates incredible new perk

Rodolfo 'Rudy' Alvarez Medrano, 45, a Texas death row inmate, is among a select group of about a dozen prisoners chosen for a groundbreaking program.

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7 h. ago 'You're my Wonderwall!': Oasis fans ignore security and climb barrier to try and see band play gig at Heaton Park

Oasis fans climbed the newly erected fence on "Gallagher hill" so they can catch a glimpse of Oasis from the Hill when they play at Heaton Park this evening.

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8 h. ago Revealed: Five patient deaths were linked to junior doctors' strikes

An audit shows strikes by the BMA in 2023 and 2024 were raised in five Prevention of Future Death Reports issued by coroners.

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8 h. ago My mother gave me away to the cleaner's sister at six weeks old. She never wanted me

For the past few weeks, I have been wearing a necklace that was a gift from my mother, Juliet, on my wedding day.

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8 h. ago We're fed up of YouTubers coming to our town and ridiculing us for being 'the world's fattest' place to live... we're not a freak show!

Eighty per cent of the residents of Ebbw Vale in South Wales are classed as obese from living on high calorie takeaways.

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8 h. ago Inside horror house where grandparents beat a toddler to death: Despicable abuse and starvation missed by social services, as daughter reveals

Harrowing video footage, filmed just ten days before Ethan's death, shows him walking with a strange, knock-kneed gait and falling over, barely able to hold up his own head.

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