7 h. ago Race to save woman stuck 22,000ft up Victory Peak with broken leg and no food

Avid thrill seeker Natalia Nagovitsina has been stuck up Victory Peak in Kyrgyzstan for about a week after she suffered a significant injury and needed a sleeping bag to be delivered to her

Politics

50 h. ago Woman stuck inside locked public toilet needs fire crew rescue after door malfunction

Firefighters were called after a woman got trapped in a locked public toilet in Exmouth when it malfunctioned, and her desperate boyfriend called emergency services for help

Events

3 d. ago The race to save Thorpeness cliffs: Row of £1million luxury homes facing falling into the North Sea without action

Coastal erosion in the up-market seaside village of Thorpeness in Suffolk is getting worse by the day despite attempts to shore up the sandy cliffs to protect more than a dozen properties from the waves.

Economics

4 d. ago At least 56 feared dead after flash flood devastates remote Himalayan village

Race against time to save 80 people still missing after flood sweeps away dozens of cars and motorbikes

Events

7 d. ago Woman with 'biggest hernia doctors ever saw' stuck living 17

Samantha Jackson, 56, was first diagnosed with a hernia 17 years ago and has been told that it's the 'biggest doctors have ever seen'. However, she's been stuck in a nightmare since as surgeons can't operate

Politics

1 week ago Catastrophe! Heroism! Paranoia! The dangerous romance of survivalist stories

Authors have been imagining societal collapse for decades – but could the reality be as dreadful as they think?The man who claimed to have coined the word “survivalist” called himself Kurt Saxon. The sinister godfather of survivalism was actually born Donald Eugene Sisco, a former journalist who spent the 1960s floating between far-right groups in California before deciding that none of them were serious enough. Sisco’s passion for making his own bombs, which he advocated using on student demonstrators, cost him the fingers of his left hand. He liked to say that he was the reincarnation of a soul whose previous lives included a Roman legionary, a Nazi stormtrooper and the revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine.Survivalism, or prepping, is experiencing a boom, from Silicon Valley billionaires to users of the Reddit board r/collapse. Elon Musk’s entire career, for example, has been partly driven by apocalypse anxieties and his conviction that he alone can save the human race (details ...

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2 w. ago Former students and parents race to raise £1MILLION by midnight to try and save prestigious independent school shut down over financial pressures and Labour's VAT fees raid

Dozens of teachers now face losing their jobs and children their school, but parents and former pupils have launched a campaign to stop the shutters coming down.

Economics