3 d. ago Shocking dashcam video reveals moment Paul Doyle ploughed through Liverpool title parade

Opening the footage, prosecutor Mr Greaney said it came from a camera inside Doyle’s vehicle and recorded both audio and video.

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7 d. ago From shiveringly vivid Mahler to the eclectic Hermes Experiment: our top classical recordings of 2025

Opera may be conspicuous by its absence, but the brilliance of Berlin Philharmonic’s Schoenberg and the exceptional South Korean Yunchan Lim gave us plenty to sink our teeth into this year The survey of the new releases that my colleagues and I have enjoyed most in 2025 differs in one significant respect from the lists of previous years. This year’s top ten contains no operas. There has been a profound change in record companies’ policies of how and what they record. The glitzy, studio-based opera recordings of the last century now seem impossible to contemplate, and even releasing audio-only recordings taken directly from live opera-house performances often seems less viable than issuing DVDs of the same productions.Some specialist labels devoted to specific areas of the operatic repertoire continue sterling work: operas feature prominently in Bru Zane’s mission on behalf of neglected French composers, while Opera Rara continues to crusade for forgotten, mostly 19th century, mostly...

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2 w. ago Court releases audio of 911 call that led to Luigi Mangione’s arrest

Judge allows call from manager of Pennsylvania McDonald’s to be made public after press urged its releaseAn audio recording of a 911 call that led to Luigi Mangione’s arrest has been made public after the press advocated for its release.The audio recording was played in Manhattan state court this week during a proceeding about evidence gathered during Mangione’s arrest over the murder of senior United HealthCare executive Brian Thompson a year ago. Mangione was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania in December last year after the restaurant’s manager called 911. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump envoy Witkoff reportedly advised Kremlin official on Ukraine peace deal

Steve Witkoff spoke to Yuri Ushakov on territorial control and suggested congratulating Donald Trump and framing talks more optimistically, audio recording suggestsDonald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a senior Kremlin official last month that achieving peace in Ukraine would require Russia gaining control of Donetsk and potentially a separate territorial exchange, according to a recording of their conversation obtained by Bloomberg.In the 14 October phone call with Yuri Ushakov, the top foreign policy aide to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, Witkoff said he believed the land concessions were necessary all while advising Ushakov to congratulate Trump and frame discussions more optimistically. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Campbell’s Soup executive called its products food for ‘poor people’, lawsuit alleges

Executive Martin Bally put on leave after alleged remarks were purportedly recorded and attributed to him in lawsuitA Campbell’s Soup Company executive has been put on temporary leave after he allegedly referred to the firm’s offerings as “shit for fucking poor people” – a remark purportedly caught on an audio recording and attributed to him in a former employee’s wrongful termination lawsuit.The lawsuit was filed last Thursday in Wayne county circuit court in Michigan by Robert Garza, who had joined Campbell’s New Jersey headquarters remotely in September 2024 as a security analyst. Garza alleges he was fired in January after he raised concerns about comments made by Martin Bally, Campbell’s vice-president of information technology – including referring to one of the company’s ingredients as “bioengineered meat” while going off on a racist tirade. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Racist Scots murderer who gunned down waiter finally breaks silence in prison audio recordings

Michael Ross was just 15 when he walked into the Mumtaz restaurant in Kirkwall, Orkney, in 1994 and shot Shamsuddin Mahmood, 26, in the head at close range.

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3 w. ago Racist killer who shot waiter in the head on Orkney breaks silence in prison tapes

Michael Ross was just 15 when he walked into the Mumtaz restaurant in Kirkwall, Orkney, in 1994 and shot Shamsuddin Mahmood, 26, in the head at close range.

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3 w. ago Bombshell recordings reveal whinging of schoolboy who murdered Orkney waiter in cold blood

A RACE hate killer has protested his innocence in bombshell prison recordings to be aired on TV. Michael Ross claims he didn’t murder Shamsuddin Mahmood, 26, with a single gunshot in Orkney in 1994 when he was 15. Audio recordings of Ross — who became an Army sniper before being convicted of the slaying in...

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3 w. ago Fox News announced a Jesus podcast. The celebrities involved say they had no idea the project was in the works

Kristen Bell and Brian Cox are among the actors who said they were unaware that audio they had recorded 15 years ago was being ‘repurposed’ for the new project

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