23 h. ago Woman 'decapitated in axe attack' at Warsaw University: Polish man, 22, arrested over killing on campus

Police said on Wednesday they had arrested a 22-year-old Polish man after he allegedly killed one person with an axe at Warsaw University.

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27 h. ago Woman 'decapitated in axe attack' at Warsaw University: Polish man, 22, arrested over killing on campus

Police said on Wednesday they had arrested a 22-year-old Polish man after he allegedly killed one person with an axe at Warsaw University.

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33 h. ago Hollyoaks teenager set for explosive return 14 years after debut

Hollyoaks' Bobby Costello will be returning to the Channel 4 soap in coming months with Waterloo Road star Zak Sutcliffe taking over the role from actor Jayden Fox

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4 d. ago ‘Uninvited guest’ opened fire at Texas family party, killing one and wounding 14 others, police say

One person was killed and 14 others were wounded after a shooting at a family party in Houston in the early hours of Sunday.

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5 d. ago Small plane crashes into Simi Valley neighborhood in Southern California, killing 1 person

Authorities say a small plane crashed into a neighborhood in Simi Valley, killing a person aboard the aircraft and damaging two homes

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6 d. ago A fourth person dies from Minneapolis mass shooting and the suspect is charged with murder

Police say a fourth person has died as a result of a mass shooting in Minneapolis in which investigators believe a fifth person was killed in retaliation

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6 d. ago Driver of boat that crashed into Florida ferry killing one person denies fleeing the scene

Jeff Knight has also stood down from his role with a local music venue ‘out of respect for the victims’

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8 d. ago EastEnders star to make sudden return after Queen Vic explosion

Michelle Collins who plays Cindy Beale will return once again to Albert Square

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8 d. ago EastEnders legend makes explosive return to Albert Square in just days as they send shockwaves through family with life

The return will blow one family's secret out into the open.

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9 d. ago Iranian journalists say they are being muzzled over reporting port explosion

Criminal charges against media outlets have raised concerns about press freedomIranian journalists have warned of a media crackdown after a series of incidents, the most recent an explosion at a munitions company in which one person was killed and two injured.The explosion on Tuesday, for which there has been no official explanation, occurred in Isfahan, only two days after a thwarted cyber-attack on the communications infrastructure on Sunday, and a huge explosion on Saturday at the strategic southern port of Shahid Rajaee, near Bandar Abbas. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Russia continues to strike Ukraine after Trump questions Putin’s commitment to peace

Airstrike in Donetsk kills three while drone attack in Dnipro leaves one dead, according to local sourcesRussia has continued its assault on Ukraine with a series of drone attacks and airstrikes, hours after US president Donald Trump cast doubt on Vladimir Putin’s readiness to end the conflict.Three people were killed and four were wounded on Sunday morning in airstrikes on Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, according to the regional prosecutor’s office. In a drone attack on the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipro region, a person was killed and a 14-year-old girl was wounded after a third consecutive night of assaults, local governor Serhii Lysak said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Police are searching for this person after a driver was killed on the M4

The eastbound slip road at junction 30 was closed for several hours at the time of the incident

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1 week ago ‘Zizian’ follower named ‘person of interest’ in her parents’ killing denies all allegations: ‘We aren’t a murder cult’

In a 20-page letter from jail shared with The Independent, the 32-year-old defended her group’s motives and said their namesake Ziz LaSota is on ‘hunger strike’

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2 w. ago A14 crash: One killed with lorry driver arrested as dual carriageway forced to close

One person was killed and three others injured in a crash on the A14 near Horningsea as Cambridgeshire Police arrested a lorry driver on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving

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2 w. ago Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert review – how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves

The Pulitzer-nominated journalist recounts how modern misogyny has been shaped by a mass culture attuned to male desire and all-pervasive pornographyIn 2021, JD Vance told Fox News that senior Democrat women were just “childless cat ladies”, lacking cultural or social value compared with their married and procreating counterparts. When Taylor Swift looked down the barrel of this insult with a post on Instagram showing her posing with beloved feline Benjamin Button (from Time magazine’s photoshoot naming her 2023’s person of the year), she embraced the role of killjoy, rejecting Vance’s attempt to divide women. But even this gesture of defiance and solidarity was not enough to push back the red tide of misogyny and corruption: Trump was elected to a second term, the US was denied a female leader, and millions of women held their breath.When Sophie Gilbert, a Pulitzer-nominated journalist and critic at the Atlantic, was writing Girl on Girl, the 2025 Trump administration was just a wo...

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2 w. ago Man killed and six people rushed to hospital after police chase ends in three

One man has been killed and another person is fighting for their life after three cars smashed in a horror crash following a police chase.

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3 w. ago Knifeman dressed as The Joker ‘stabs man to death in horror triple nightclub stabbing’

An alleged knifeman was caught on CCTV arriving at a nightclub dressed at the Batman supervillain before reportedly stabbing three people - one person was killed in the horror attack

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3 w. ago One person killed and several wounded in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital

Airstrike prompts UN warning that humanitarian crisis is at its worst since fighting broke out 18 months agoOne person has been killed in an Israeli missile strike on a hospital in Gaza, just as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was making a visit to the war-torn territory.The attack on Tuesday occurred two days after another major hospital was targeted, fuelling warnings from the UN that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now the worst it has been since conflict began. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Residents unable to return home after explosion kills one person

A man in his 50s has been found dead among the wreckage of the house that was destroyed in a suspected gas explosion

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3 w. ago The return of the firing squad is a defeat for death penalty supporters | Austin Sarat

The method is a vivid reminder of the brutality of state killing. That undermines the pro-capital-punishment narrativeOn 11 April, South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi by firing squad. Mahdi had been convicted and sentenced for the 2004 killing of an off-duty law enforcement officer.One month before his execution, South Carolina put Brad Sigmon to death using the same method. He was the first person since 2010 to be killed by the firing squad. Both Mahdi and Sigmon chose the firing squad from a menu of three ways to die, the others being lethal injection and the electric chair. Continue reading...

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