8 h. ago Car fleeing police slams into bar in Tampa, killing 4 people and injuring 11

Police say vehicle was involved in street racing before driver fled from authorities and then crashed into Ybor City bar A speeding car fleeing police slammed into a crowded bar early on Saturday, killing four people and injuring 11 in a historic district of Tampa, Florida, known for its nightlife and tourists.An air patrol unit with the Tampa police department spotted the car driving recklessly on a freeway at about 12.40am after police said the silver sedan had been seen street racing in another neighborhood, according to a police department statement. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Powerful tornado in Brazil kills 6 people and injures hundreds more

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured hundreds of others

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9 h. ago ‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone

From Port Arthur to Hoddle Street, Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violenceDr Paul E Mullen and his family were living near Dunedin, New Zealand when, one evening in November 1990, they heard gunfire. The shots continued into the night, followed by the distant sound of police and ambulances. At 9pm, a hospital colleague told him that a few kilometres away, in Aramoana, someone with a gun had started shooting.As it turned out, Mullen had heard of the perpetrator before; one of his long-term patients was the man’s nextdoor neighbour, and soon Mullen would learn that many other people he knew had been injured or killed.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Deadly tornado in Brazil kills six people leaving scenes like a 'war zone' in its wake

A powerful tornado in Brazil's southern state of Parana has killed six people and injured more than 400 others, officials said - among the dead was a 14-year-old girl

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12 h. ago A car fleeing police slams into a bar in Florida, killing 4 and injuring 11

A speeding car fleeing police crashed into a crowded bar in Tampa, Florida, killing four people and injuring 11

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19 h. ago A Russian drone strike at a tower block in eastern Ukraine kills a woman and injures 11 people

A Russian drone has slammed into a tower block in eastern Ukraine, killing a woman and injuring at least 11 people

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3 d. ago Kentucky plane crash: death toll rises to 11 as investigators search for answers

NTSB agents arrive in Louisville to investigate what caused engine to fall off UPS cargo plane and left wing to catch fireA federal investigator said a UPS cargo plane’s left wing caught fire and an engine fell off shortly before it crashed and exploded into a fireball in Louisville on Tuesday night, killing at least 11 people and injuring 15 with some people still unaccounted for.At least 28 National Transportation Safety Board agents arrived at the site in Kentucky and began searching for clues about the possible cause of the disaster, which saw the UPS plane crash shortly after takeoff at the Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport, leaving behind a fiery trail of destruction on the ground and a huge plume of black smoke. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Engine fell off UPS cargo plane before deadly crash near Kentucky airport

Aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville international airport, killing at least nine and injuring 11A federal investigator said a UPS cargo plane’s left wing caught fire and an engine fell off shortly before it crashed and exploded into a huge fireball in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday night, killing at least nine people and injuring 11.At least 28 National Transportation Safety Board agents arrived at the site and began searching for clues about the possible cause of the disaster, which saw the UPS plane crash shortly after takeoff at the Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport, leaving behind a fiery trail of destruction on the ground and a huge plume of black smoke. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Japan sends in the troops to curtail surge in BEAR attacks after more than 100 people are hurt in six months

Since April, more than 100 people have been injured and at least 12 killed in bear attacks across Japan, according to Environment Ministry statistics at the end of October.

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3 d. ago Air safety officials to investigate deadly UPS cargo plane crash near Kentucky airport

Aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff at Louisville international airport, killing at least seven and injuring 11Dozens of air safety investigators are set to arrive in Kentucky on Wednesday to piece together evidence on how a UPS cargo plane crashed and erupted into a huge fireball, killing at least seven people and injuring a further 11.At least 28 National Transportation Safety Board agents will start searching for clues about the possible cause of the disaster, which saw the UPS plane crash shortly after takeoff at the Louisville Muhammad Ali international airport, leaving behind a fiery trail of destruction on the ground and a huge plume of black smoke. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Horror inferno in retirement home leaves at least 11 dead & dozens hurt in ‘disaster of enormous proportions’ in Bosnia

At least 11 people were killed and more than 30 injured after a fire ripped through a retirement home in the Bosnian city of Tuzla late Tuesday night. The blaze broke out on the building’s seventh floor around 8:45 p.m. Horrifying footage shows flames and smoke on upper levels. This is where many residents were...

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5 d. ago Powerful Afghan earthquake leaves at least 20 dead and hundreds injured

Northern provinces of Balkh and Samangan worst hit by magnitude 6.3 quake, which also damaged Mazar-i-Sharif’s Blue MosqueA powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn on Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, 25 critically, a disaster management official said. Health officials said the numbers could rise.The US Geological Survey said the quake’s epicentre was located 22km (14 miles) south-west of the town of Khulm, and that it struck at 12.59am at a depth of 28km (17 miles). Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Afghanistan earthquake kills 20 and leaves 300 injured as devastating tremor strikes

A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has killed at least 20 people and injured more than 300 in northern Afghanistan, with the death toll expected to rise as rescue workers scramble to reach remote towns

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7 d. ago Slow drivers have killed 19 and injured 1,500 people over the last decade

Eighteen of the crashes sparked by slow driving left 19 dead and another 281 smashes left 310 victims with severe, often life-changing, injuries, the AA has warned.

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9 d. ago Government rules out public inquiry into Birmingham pub bombings

Ministers suggest independent commission set up to investigate deaths related to Troubles could look into 1974 attackMinisters have ruled out establishing a public inquiry into the IRA’s 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.On 21 November 1974, 21 people were killed and 220 injured when bombs were detonated at the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs in Birmingham, in an attack widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Provisional IRA. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Decision not to hold Birmingham pub bombings inquiry ‘deeply disappointing’

Two bombs planted in the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs also killed 21 people and injured up to 220 other victims.

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1 week ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 96 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militantsIsraeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 96 Palestinians, half of them children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.The strikes, one of the bloodiest attacks in the two-year war, killed at least 46 children and 20 women and injured 200 people, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. They took place hours after Donald Trump said nothing would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he had helped broker. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militantsIsraeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 104 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.The strikes, one of the bloodiest attacks in the two-year war, killed at least 35 children and injured 200 people, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. They took place hours after Donald Trump said nothing would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he had helped broker. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 81 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militantsIsraeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 81 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.The strikes, which according to Gaza’s civil defence agency killed at least 22 children and injured 200 people, took place hours after Donald Trump said nothing would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he had helped broker. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 60 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militantsIsraeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 60 Palestinians, including 22 children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.The strikes, which according to Gaza’s civil defence agency killed many children and injured 200 people, took place hours after the US president, Donald Trump, said “nothing” would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he helped broker. Continue reading...

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