2 d. ago Weaning is the hardest part of parenting with one in five spending up to 10 hours a week on it

A survey of 1,000 parents with kids aged between six months and four years found that 70% of mums and dads felt the process was fraught with worry.

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3 d. ago Man kidnapped and dismembered before body parts 'boiled in pot with potatoes and carrots'

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Georges Meichler was reportedly kidnapped, murdered and dismembered by three people who "cooked" his remains with potatoes and carrots

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4 d. ago 'I was one of the few people to visit Fred and Rose West's house

Fred West's 'appropriate adult' has revealed how one thing about the Wests' home lingered in her memory after she became one of the few people to set foot inside the home, not long after their murders were uncovered

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7 d. ago New Orleans FBI offers huge reward for information leading to the arrest of nine escaped inmates

So far only one inmate has been captured, the inmates that remain at large include at least three murderers, and several people convicted of attempted murder. The FBI has now issued a reward for information leading to their capture

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7 d. ago Everyone agreed Joel Cauchi was psychotic when he murdered six people at Bondi Junction. Until his psychiatrist didn’t

The third week of a coronial inquest into the death of Cauchi and the six people he killed gave the fullest picture of his illness yetGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOne point that has never been in dispute over the course of the coronial inquest into a mass stabbing in Sydney last year was that schizophrenic man Joel Cauchi was psychotic when he wielded a 30cm Ka-Bar knife, attacking 16 people and killing six.The expert psychiatric evidence was “clear and unanimous” about Cauchi, 40, being “floridly psychotic” on 13 April 2024, the senior counsel assisting, Dr Peggy Dwyer SC, told the New South Wales coroner’s court in her opening remarks almost three weeks ago.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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7 d. ago South Carolina man convicted of murdering two people gets a June execution date

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13

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7 d. ago New ‘historically accurate’ digital replica will allow films to be set within Auschwitz

The Auschwitz Memorial has created the model ‘to provide the industry with credible resources’, but it raises ethical questions over what type of films could be set thereThe Auschwitz Memorial has launched a “historically accurate” digital replica of the former concentration camp for filmmakers to set their pictures in, breaking a long-held taboo around shooting features at the grounds where an estimated 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazi regime.At the Cannes film festival on Thursday, he organisers of the Picture from Auschwitz project said they have harnessed “cutting-edge 3D scanning technologies” to build a digital model of the concentration camp that matches the site in its current state “down to every single brick”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Grand jury indicts Florida State student accused in a mass shooting on campus

A grand jury has indicted a Florida State University student on murder charges for the killings of two people and the wounding of six others in a mass shooting on campus last month

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8 d. ago Burglar, 27, who murdered pensioner in his own home two days after release from prison in drug

Burglar Owen Blades, 27, has been jailed for life at Lincoln Crown Court for the murder of John Connolly, 69, in his own home just two days after his release from prison,

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9 d. ago Prince William opens up about 'the very worst pain any child or parent will ever endure' as he attends private dinner for charity connected to Princess Diana

Speaking at a private dinner for charity Child Bereavement UK's 30-year anniversary, Prince William said grief is 'the very worst pain a child or parent will ever endure'.

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1 week ago World's most dangerous city with 300 murders a year is beautiful seaside spot

Los Cabos, a resort city on the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, is one of the most dangerous cities in the world, with a murder rate of 111.3 per 100,000 people

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1 week ago Banned baby names in the UK: Real cases when parents were told 'no' and why

While parents in the UK generally have the freedom to choose any name they like for their child there are a number of rules in place that mean certain names will never make it onto a birth certificate

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1 week ago SAS accused of executing handcuffed children and murdering unarmed people in their sleep in shocking new eyewitness claims of UK 'war crimes'

UK Special Forces veterans have come forward to describe seeing SAS soldiers executing a handcuffed child and Taliban suspects while they were asleep.

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2 w. ago Parents devastated as they're told son, 4, is one of just 20 people in the world with mystery condition

Doctors told Connor Murphy's mum and dad he was one of around 20 children in the world with the condition

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2 w. ago Boy, 4, is one of just 20 people in the world with mystery condition

Doctors told Connor Murphy's mum and dad he was one of around 20 children in the world with the condition

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2 w. ago Drunken driver who plowed into Minnesota restaurant patio, killing 2, pleads guilty to murder

A man who was driving drunk when he crashed into a patio at a popular restaurant, killing two people and injuring nine others, has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges

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2 w. ago Indigenous people raise awareness about their missing and murdered

Indigenous people across North America are rallying to plead for sustained responses to violence in their communities

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2 w. ago Haydock stabbing: Second person arrested on suspicion of murder after man knifed to death

Police have launched a murder investigation and have arrested two people in connection to a man who was found stabbed to death inside a flat in Liverpool on Friday

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2 w. ago LIVE: Attempted murder inquiry launched after four people injured in two different car incidents in Rochdale

Police said the incident is not being treated as terrorism related

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3 w. ago Deliberate poisoning or a tragic accident? The question at the heart of Australia’s mushroom murders trial

Jury hears of a collapsed marriage, cancer claim and mushroom foraging in week one of the trial of Erin PattersonWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?On the afternoon of 29 July 2023, five people sat down to lunch in the dining room of a house in Leongatha, a small town in the South Gippsland region of Australia’s south-east.Erin Patterson owned the house, and the guests were her parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson; Gail’s sister, Heather Wilkinson; and Ian Wilkinson, Heather’s husband. Continue reading...

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