7 h. ago Gene Hackman's Santa Fe home up for sale for eye watering sum after couple found dead

The sprawling Southwestern-style mansion has been listed at $6.25 million a year after the couple were found dead in the home - with their deaths both ruled as natural causes

Events

9 h. ago Gene Hackman’s New Mexico estate being sold for more than $6M a year after actor and wife died there

Actor and his wife were found dead at their home in February 2025

Events

11 h. ago The family torn apart by suicide: How a teenager, his mother and sister all took their own lives...as police probe links to Canadian 'poison killer'

Harvey Allen, 18, was found dead at his home in Maidenhead, Berkshire, on August 31, 2022, having consumed toxic substances.

Events

27 h. ago Girl, 11, found decomposed after being ‘starved to death by mom & her boyfriend’ with just a single blueberry in stomach

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl who was allegedly starved to death by her own mother had just one blueberry in her stomach when she died, an autopsy has found. Jacqueline 'Mimi' Torres–Garcia's dead body was discovered in the basement of an abandoned Connecticut home on October 8. The young child was facing "severe malnourishment" when she died, according to a...

Events

31 h. ago Woman ‘overwhelmed’ by loneliness killed herself and disabled daughter, coroner says

Full-time carer Martina Karos and Eleni Edwards, eight, were found dead at home in SalfordA translator who became a full-time carer for her severely disabled eight-year-old daughter killed herself and her child after becoming “overwhelmed” by loneliness, a coroner concluded.Martina Karos, 40, and Eleni Edwards were found dead at their home in Salford, Greater Manchester, after police were called when the girl did not turn up at school on 23 September 2024.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

Events

40 h. ago Nazi bombs are taken out to sea and blown up after residents were forced out of their homes in the dead of night so WW2 devices could be moved

Bleary-eyed locals were seen wandering through Plymouth town centre in dressing gowns heading for community centres to sleep in overnight.

Events

40 h. ago Reno at London’s Kew greenhouse forces its residents to make like trees and leave

Reno at London’s Kew greenhouse forces its residents to make like trees and leave  The Globe and Mail

Politics

41 h. ago 'Quirky' teenager found dead at home after mum went out for an hour

The 15-year-old had been struggling with his mental health and receiving support from CAMHS and social services before his death in July 2024

Events

42 h. ago Hundreds of homes evacuated in middle of the night after WW2 bomb blown up at sea and school shut for another day

ONE of two WW2 bombs that caused thousands to be evacuated from their homes has been blown up - and the second will be detonated this morning. A major incident was declared in Devon yesterday, with schools and hotels closed and thousands of people evacuated. Bomb squads raced to a building site and a marina...

Events

43 h. ago 'Awesome' boy, 15, found dead at home after mum 'went out for an hour'

Zack Ellis was described by family as 'awesome, loving and quirky'

Events

51 h. ago Up to 2,500 homes evacuated after WWII bomb discovered in Devon

A 100-metre cordon was placed around Exmouth Marina, Devon after a 'very large' World War Two bomb was found - residents living with 600 metres were forced to stay elsewhere

Events

58 h. ago 'Overwhelmed and lonely' mum killed disabled daughter and then took her own life

Martina Karos, 40, and eight-year-old Eleni Edwards were found dead at their home after emergency services forced entry to the property when Eleni's school raised the alarm

Events

59 h. ago 'Extremely lonely' mum killed disabled daughter, 8, before taking her own life

Martina Karos, 40, and her disabled daughter Eleni Edwards, 8, were found dead at their home in Salford, Greater Manchester in 2024 after Eleni failed to attend school

Events

60 h. ago Yet another senior Putin figure is mysteriously found dead in Moscow as former Kremlin official ‘takes his own life’

PUTIN'S former minster and IT guru was shot dead at his home, in the latest mystery death linked to Moscow power structures. Alexey Sklyar, 50, who also served as vice-president of the Russian Export Centre, was found in his Moscow mansion. When emergency services arrived at the scene, the door to the property was open...

Politics

67 h. ago 'Every available resource in Salford was exhausted' as agencies supported 'isolated' mum later found dead beside daughter

Martina Karos, 40, and eight-year-old Eleni Edwards - who was severely disabled - were discovered dead at their Salford home in 2024. Inquests into their deaths are ongoing.

Events

3 d. ago 29 dogs found dead in plastic bags at Alabama home with dozens more malnourished

Three people are facing more than 100 charges between them after cops made the gruesome discovery

Events

3 d. ago 29 dogs found dead in plastic bags at Atlanta home with dozens more malnourished

Three people are facing more than 100 charges between them after cops made the gruesome discovery

Events

3 d. ago ‘It’s pretty grim’: Tunbridge Wells residents struggle through several days without water – again

South East Water blames bad weather as pubs are forced to close, toilets overflow and people go without showersAs the residents of Tunbridge Wells trudged down their sodden high street in the pouring rain, the idea that they had run out of water – for the second time in just a few weeks – seemed farcical.At the end of November the local water treatment centre, which had been flagged as at risk by the regulator in 2024, was forced to shut down, leaving 24,000 households without water for two weeks. The Drinking Water Inspectorate later said this outage was foreseen and was due to a lack of maintenance at the site. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Heartbreaking note written by child who was left to live alone for a YEAR in a squalid home with seven dogs after her parents moved state without her

Investigators said the young girl was living in filth - surrounded by urine, feces, roaches and trash - when they searched the mobile home, where one dog was also found dead in a closet.

Society

4 d. ago People feel like the 'Russians are trying to freeze them': Guardian reporter in Kyiv – video

The Guardian's Peter Beaumont is in Kyiv where temperatures are expected to fall to -20C during the night. Many residents are forced to use emergency shelters to warm up and use electricity after a large-scale Russian attack on the capital on 9 January damaged energy facilities. Hundreds of homes have been left without power or heating after the strikes Continue reading...

Politics