3 h. ago 'Precious' daughter's life taken for 'nothing more than profit' says mum of paddleboarding victim

The families of three women who died in a paddleboarding tragedy have hit out at the 'stone-cold, heartless individual' who was said to be 'not remotely qualified' to lead the fatal tour

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3 h. ago Hundreds mourn Spanish family killed in New York City helicopter crash

Hundreds of people packed into a Barcelona church to mourn the deaths of a Spanish family of five who died earlier this month in a sightseeing helicopter crash in New York City

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4 h. ago Paddleboard instructor 'not remotely qualified' to lead tour which ended with deaths of four people

A court heard that the group of paddleboarders were taken out despite recent heavy rain and weather warnings in place

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6 h. ago Paddleboarding company owner ‘not qualified’ to lead tour in which four died

Nerys Lloyd pleaded guilty to four counts of gross negligence manslaughter and one offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

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15 h. ago ‘The people’s pope’: what the papers say about the death of Pope Francis

Pope Francis, an outsider Jesuit pontiff from Argentina, is being mourned across the globe – here is the front-page reaction in BritainThe death of Pope Francis has reverberated around the world, with the Catholic leader remembered by millions as a Jesuit pontiff who pushed for social and economic justice.Here is how the major British newspapers responded to the news. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Teen's chilling last words before tragic death in fatal train crash that killed 57 people

Maria Karystianou was initially told her daughter, Mathi, 19, died instantly in the crash but a phone recording reveals the young woman's final moments after a government "cover-up"

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4 d. ago Campaigners and charities horrified by revelations about impact of Trump’s ‘reckless’ USAID cuts

Trump has been accused of giving ‘millions of people a death sentence’ after The Independent exposed the reality of the cuts on the ground

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5 d. ago Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers

These are just the US executioners we know. But they are a chilling indication of the executioners we don’t knowBeing an executioner is not the sort of job that gets posted in a local wanted ad. Kids don’t dream about being an executioner when they grow up, and people don’t go to school for it. So how does one become a death row executioner in the US, and who are the people doing it?This was the question I couldn’t help but ask when I began a book project on lethal injection back in 2018. I’m a death penalty researcher, and I was trying to figure out why states are so breathtakingly bad at a procedure that we use on cats and dogs every day. Part of the riddle was who is performing these executions. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Doctor charged with killing 15 patients accused of setting fires to cover up crimes

Investigators now say they have found evidence linking the doctor to the deaths of 15 people

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6 d. ago Grim mysteries over infamous stolen body parts from JFK's brain to Shakespeare's skull

From Albert Einstein to William Shakespeare, historians have been left scratching their heads at what happened to the noggins after the deaths of some of the most famous people of their time

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6 d. ago In the Ukrainian city of Sumy, life goes on despite the constant threat of attack

The humdrum of daily life in Sumy belies the constant threat of death its people have lived with since Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago

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1 week ago 'I've seen the seven levels of hell and horrors in store for evil people after death'

An Oxford educated philosopher has claimed to know what happens on a person's journey to the afterlife and explained what hell is 'actually like', and when a person is mostly like to meet God

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1 week ago Dominican diaspora in New York mourn victims of the nightclub rooftop collapse

Dominicans in New York City are mourning the deaths of over 200 people in Tuesday’s roof collapse at a Santo Domingo nightclub

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1 week ago Alcohol deaths surge in UK with more than 4,000 people lost since the Covid pandemic

Disturbing research finds alcohol specific deaths rocketed since the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, with more than 4,000 people dying from alcohol than expect, as the Government is urged to take 'urgent action'

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1 week ago Serial killer utters Death Row confession after keeping grim murders secret for 17 years

The ‘National Forest Serial Killer’ was convicted for the murders of four people after a gruesome killing spree and received the death sentence in April 2011 - but he's made a confession

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1 week ago Katie Price rushes cat to vet in terrifying state amid urgent pet ban petition

Katie Price rushed her Sphynx to the vet after he suddenly developed horrifying symptoms, as tens of thousands of people demand a ban on her pet ownership after multiple animal deaths

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1 week ago Cause of deaths of three people including girl, four, and her mother, 30, killed in horror blaze at Grade

Emma Conn, 30, and her daughter Mayci Fox, four - both from Desborough - died along with Louie Thorn, 23, at the Grade II-listed property in the village of Rushton, near Kettering.

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1 week ago France could recognise Palestinian state ‘in June’, says Emmanuel Macron – Middle East crisis live

President says ‘we must move towards recognition’ and process could start at UN conference on settling Israel-Palestine conflict in New York in JuneSuspected US airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people, while the death toll in an earlier attack rose to 13 dead, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said. The rebels meanwhile aired footage they said showed the debris left after shooting down yet another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, reports the Associated Press (AP). The 13 killed in strikes on Tuesday night around Hodeida’s al-Hawak district made it one of the deadliest single incidents in the ongoing US campaign, the rebels said.Another 15 people were injured. The Houthis described the majority of those killed as women and children, without providing a breakdown. The area is home to the city’s airport, which the rebels have used in the past to target shipping in the Red Sea. Since its start, the intense campaign of US airstrikes targeting the rebels over their...

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1 week ago Death of five children during gruelling hospital trek blamed on Trump’s ‘America First’ aid cuts

Charity hits out at ‘decisions made by powerful people in other countries that have led to child deaths’

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1 week ago Gaza rescue workers say 20 people killed in Israeli strike on residential block – Middle East crisis live

Gaza’s civil defence agency says the strike resulted in ‘20 martyrs and more than 40 injured’The Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday that at least 1,482 Palestinians have been killed since Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on 18 March, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,846.Hamas’s October 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on Israeli official figures. Continue reading...

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