98 m. ago Teenage girl shot in the Bondi Beach terror attack shielded children with her injured body as their mothers lay dead nearby: 'A true heroine'

The 14-year-old was caught up in gunfire while attending 'Chanukah by the Sea' at Bondi Beach on Sunday,

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2 h. ago Moment young group partying see crowd fleeing Bondi Beach and running into the sea... and watch in horror as terror attack unfolds before them

Fifteen innocent people - including a 10-year-old girl - were killed during Australia's second worst mass shooting on Sunday at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration, while 40 others were injured.

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2 h. ago Matthew Perry's ketamine doctor avoids jail in shock ruling as court hears he now drives Uber for a living

One of the doctors caught up in the criminal fallout surrounding Matthew Perry's ketamine death has narrowly avoided prison time.

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3 h. ago Son who stabbed his mom to death in argument over her car is jailed for 72 years – the same length of time she was alive

Lorena Royster's stepdaughter welcomes sentence, which prosecutors had requested, saying the number 72 'is going to forever be etched' in the mind of her brother Reginald English

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3 h. ago Son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner to be charged with murder of his parents

Hollywood director Rob and his photographer wife Michele were found stabbed to death in their home

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4 h. ago Drug driver who killed father, 53, as wife reported his Jaguar to the police is jailed

Adam Bates (pictured), 23, collided with a road sweeping lorry after he veered into the wrong lane while driving between the Cambridgeshire villages of Stretham and Chittering on the morning of August 15.

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4 h. ago Britain's worst romance fraudster who scammed single mothers out of £1m jailed for 17 years

Nigel Baker conned five divorced single mothers and encouraged them to hand over their life savings which he then used to fuel his gambling addiction

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4 h. ago 'What monster sees a little girl and points a gun at her?' Ukrainian mother of murdered ten

Matilda, 10, was among 16 people killed when two gunmen allegedly opened fire on Sunday evening, turning a family celebration into a scene of carnage.

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4 h. ago Vanity Fair portraits of White House leaders hoped to cut through ‘political theater.’ Instead they drew snickers online

Photographer Christopher Anderson told The Independent that his photographs of administration officials were consistent with his other portraits

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4 h. ago 'There were bodies everywhere': Electrician describes horrific moment he helped free trapped fans at Liverpool parade

Mike Blair, 30, and his mother, Debbie, 55, said they feared they were caught up in a terror attack when Paul Doyle ploughed into crowds celebrating Liverpool FC's title win last May.

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5 h. ago Romanian man who stabbed girl, 11, eight times in random Leicester Square attack is detained indefinitely after court hears security guard saved her life

Romanian Ioan Pintaru, 33, grabbed the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and stabbed her eight times in face, neck and chest with a large kitchen knife as she left the Lego store last year.

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5 h. ago Little girl 'murdered' named locally in heartbreaking tribute as teen boy arrested

Floral tributes placed at police cordon at the scene named the little girl.

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6 h. ago Drug driver who killed father, 53, and seriously injured his wife after crashing his mother's Jaguar is jailed for nine years

Adam Bates (pictured), 23, collided with a road sweeping lorry after he veered into the wrong lane while driving between the Cambridgeshire villages of Stretham and Chittering on the morning of August 15.

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7 h. ago Former public enemy No1 Harry Roberts is dead: Triple cop killer who led police on a 100

Triple police killer Harry Roberts has died aged 89, it has been reported.

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7 h. ago A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue

A wildlife photographer has discovered one of the oldest and largest collections of dinosaur footprints in an Italian national park

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8 h. ago Shamed beauty queen stripped of title over 'racist' photo backed by politicians as row grows

Several politicians have gathered together to back former Miss Finland Sarah Dzface controversially, after the beauty queen was disgraced for an image which was deemed offensive.

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8 h. ago Paedophile who tried to blackmail young girl over explicit photos jailed for five years

Connor Simpson, 26, got the child to send him images of herself then warned her he would pass them on to her family and friends unless she sent more.

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8 h. ago Triple cop killer Harry Roberts dead: Notorious murderer, 89, dies 11 years after being freed from jail

Triple police killer Harry Roberts has died aged 89, it has been reported.

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9 h. ago Instant karma! Thug attacks retired US cop and bar girl while trying to avoid paying his bill... then gets set upon by locals

Osvaldo Dos Santos Neto, 42, was said to have been partying into the early hours of Monday morning at the Tinder Bar in Udon Thani, northeast Thailand.

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9 h. ago Leicester Square stabbing saw mum watch daughter, 11, 'being killed in front of her'

The man who stabbed an 11-year-old girl from Australia in Leicester Square, in a random attack that the mother describes the attack as a “wide-eyed and manic, has been sentenced

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