50 h. ago Asia flood death toll surpasses 1,500 as calls grow to fight deforestation

Deaths from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia have surged past 1,500

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3 d. ago Shane Warne's daughter Brooke discusses the night her father died and admits she had fight with her dad before his death: 'We started screaming'

Brooke Warne has opened up about the emotional toll she experienced on the night she learned that her famous dad, cricketer Shane Warne, had died.

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2 w. ago Kirsty MacColl's son's fresh agony and fight for justice after £67 fine over death

Kirsty MacColl was killed in a horrific speedboat accident in Mexico in 2000, with her son Louis Lillywhite, now 39, saying the 'grim' flashbacks still haunt him 25 years on, after a failed legal battle

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3 w. ago Putin's savage army as officers kill their men 'for sport' and fight each other to the death

Russia's army in Ukraine is turning on itself, with escalating reports of soldiers deliberately slaughtering their own comrades amid the brutal 'meat grinder' offensive that costs 1,000 lives each day

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3 w. ago Kill a comrade or be killed: Three winters into Putin's war, his army is devouring itself. Conscripts shooting fellow recruits, officers executing men who disobey orders

The first shot tore into the back of the man just in front of him - close enough for the Russian private to feel a warm spray of blood across his face.

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3 w. ago Three winters into Putin's savage war, his battered army is devouring itself. Ill

The first shot tore into the back of the man just in front of him - close enough for the Russian private to feel a warm spray of blood across his face.

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3 w. ago The Hunger Games: On Stage review – thundering fight to the death in a dazzling dystopia

Troubadour Canary Wharf theatre, LondonEye-popping visuals and a strong lead performance energise Matthew Dunster’s production – but the emotion gets lost amid the actionA luminous bow hovers in the darkness as if suspended in the sky while the arena-like stage is filled with smoke. A figure emerges: Katniss Everdeen, the girl from District 12 in Suzanne Collins’ post-apocalyptic universe, played by Jennifer Lawrence in the film franchise. With her appearance, the 74th Hunger Games begin – and no special effect is spared.Closely following the plot of Collins’ first book in the young adult series, and the Lionsgate film of 2012, Matthew Dunster’s production is a grand-scale manifestation of dystopian Panem. It is a place in which the haves and have-nots are divided into districts, and in which children are pitted against each other as “Tributes” in a deadly TV gameshow, forced to kill for prime-time entertainment. The last one standing wins the prize of survival. Continue reading...

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last month Brit drug mule gran Lindsay Sandiford set to fly back to UK after 12 years on Death Row

Lindsay Sandiford, a British woman, has been in a brutal legal battle with Jakarta in a bid to fight her drug smuggling sentence – where she was placed on Death Row

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