5 h. ago Daughter unmasks dad as brutal killer solving UK's most baffling cold case 30 years on

The mutilated body of 17-year-old Melanie Road was found by a milkman and his ten-year-old son during his early morning delivery and sparked a nationwide manhunt, but her killer was only caught three decades later by his own daughter.

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9 h. ago Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again | Jagan Chapagain

A record number of humanitarian workers were killed last year. My staff’s red uniforms should have protected them. Instead they became their death shroudsJagan Chapagain is secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of paramedicsWhich was most horrific? The agonising week-long wait – silence after our colleagues went missing, as we suspected the worst but hoped for something different? Or the confirmation, seven days later, that bodies had been found? Or, since, the ghastly details of how they were found, and killed?Their ambulances were crushed and partly buried. Nearby were their bodies – also buried, en masse, in the sand. Our dead colleagues were still wearing their Red Crescent vests. In life, those uniforms signalled their status as humanitarian workers; they should have protected them. Instead, in death, those red vests became their shrouds.Jagan Chapagain is secretar...

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9 h. ago ‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers• Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen againGaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over.The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Brutal killer who murdered father in savage attack given life sentence

John Farquhar was ordered to serve at least 22 years in prison after he repeatedly stabbed his neighbour Garry Thomson with a knife at a flat in Guardbridge, in Fife.

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19 h. ago Daughter unmasks dad as brutal killer solving baffling cold case 30 years on

The mutilated body of 17-year-old Melanie Road was found by a milkman and his ten-year-old son during his early morning delivery and sparked a nationwide manhunt, but her killer was only caught three decades later

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26 h. ago Only one man will ever know why man beat his own flatmate to death in an 'explosion' of rage

Emotive impact statements were read out to the court by Antony Derwent’s son and sister

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48 h. ago Mother's appeal to find suspect in murder of schoolboy, 16, in Pimlico 12 years on from brutal killing

Hani Hicham Abou El Kheir was killed in January 2013 after being attacked with meat cleavers and knives while walking through a Pimlico estate

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3 d. ago US bombing of Yemen compounding dire humanitarian situation – rights groups

Anti-Houthi air campaign, details of which were revealed in Signal scandal, has brought further destruction to countryA ramped-up US bombing campaign on Yemen has killed civilians and brought further destruction and uncertainty to the poorest country in the Middle East, compounding an already dire situation after Donald Trump cut aid, according to local people, humanitarian workers and rights groups.“Now the rampant bombing has started, you never know which way things will go,” said Siddiq Khan, who works as a country director in Yemen for the aid charity Islamic Relief. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say

Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crimeSome of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave nine days ago in Gaza, were found with their hands or legs tied and had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, according to two eyewitnesses.The eyewitness accounts add to an accumulating body of evidence pointing to a potentially serious war crime on 23 March, when Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews and civil defence rescue workers were sent to the scene of an airstrike in the early hours of the morning in the al-Hashashin district of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Tributes paid to grandad brutally killed by escaped XL bully destroyed after 19 gunshots

Armed police descended on Bardsley Avenue in Warrington after reports a pensioner had been left seriously injured in the attack which took place in a front garden

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4 d. ago Family of British aid worker killed in Gaza make fresh calls for investigation

The family of James Kirby, an aid worker killed in an Israeli drone strike, say they feel ignored by the Government on the anniversary of his death.

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4 d. ago Lisa Rinna reveals her mum was 'brutally attacked' by LA serial killer in knife frenzy

Lisa Rinna's mum Lois was the first known attempted murder of David Carpenter - the Trailside Killer - as he assaulted her with a knife and hammer on a 'deserted road' after persuading her into his car

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4 d. ago AI and satellites help aid workers respond to Myanmar earthquake damage

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Southeast Asian county’s second-largest city

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5 d. ago Crocodile kills swimmer with 'death roll' as cops shoot beast to unclamp its jaws

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: A man has been brutally killed in a horrific crocodile attack after the beast savaged the man in a devastating death roll – the croc was later pictured dragging the body of the man in the water

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5 d. ago Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian officeFifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Man, 31, told officers girlfriend was at fault after repeatedly slamming her head into the floor

Kain Tailby brutally attacked and killed his girlfriend after they returned to their flat after celebrating their one-year anniversary

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5 d. ago Red Cross ‘heartbroken’ by suspected Israeli attack killing eight aid workers in Gaza

Red Cross says all eight medics were wearing visible emblems and travelling in clearly marked ambulances

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5 d. ago Sick fire starter who murdered own kids in house blaze 'attacked in prison'

Evil child killer Mick Philpott was brutally beaten by a fellow inmate at the notorious HMP Wakefield, leaving him in a 'bad way', according to a source.

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5 d. ago Evil arsonist who killed own kids in house fire 'attacked in prison' as other lags laugh

Evil arsonist and child killer Mick Philpott was on the wrong end of a brutal beating and left in a 'bad way' by a fellow lag in the notorious HMP Wakefield, according to a source

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5 d. ago Evil child killer Mick Philpott 'battered' behind bars as other lags 'laughed'

Evil dad Mick Philpott, who killed six of his children in a horror house blaze, has been "battered" in a brutal prison beating according to report with the child killer was 'laughed at'

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