43 h. ago Moment yacht goes up in flames after 'loud bang': Couple rushed to hospital 

At around 5am a loud bang awoke local residents who quickly realised a yacht on the Elbe river, between the Queen Edith Bridge and the Customs Bridge, had caught fire.

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51 h. ago Scenes of carnage as residents wake up to loud bangs and find street of wrecked cars

The crash woke residents up just before 1am

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52 h. ago Boy 'who killed newborn on maternity ward' was found calling baby a chilling name

The boy and Zayneb were found by mother Delphine, who had recently given birth, after she heard a 'loud bang' as the newborn girl's grandmother suggested she had been lifted by the diaper

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9 d. ago Dad heard 'loud bang' in Canary Islands hotel, then saw little girl impaled on glass

Mya Mullin, who was five at the time of the incident, suffered large cuts after she ran through a glass balcony during a family holiday to Spain's Canary Islands

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2 w. ago Ryanair passengers 'scream' and jump off plane after 'loud bang and utter chaos'

Passengers claimed an air stewardess shouted for them to 'get off the plane' after she heard a 'bang' and others onboard the Ryanair flight reportedly smelled 'burnt electrics'

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2 w. ago Scaffolding collapses and smashes window after falling into building on Scots street

The near miss caused a loud bang to echo around the area.

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2 w. ago Witnesses describe grim aftermath of Israeli strike on busy Gaza cafe

Women, children and elderly people among at least 24 killed by attack that turned beach spot into scene of carnageWitnesses have described the bloody aftermath of an Israeli strike on a crowded seaside cafe in Gaza, which left at least 24 dead and many more injured on Tuesday.Al-Baqa cafe, close to the harbour in Gaza City, was almost full in the early afternoon when it was hit by a missile, immediately transforming a scene of relative calm amid the biggest urban centre in Gaza into one of carnage. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: stranded on a deserted back road, three bikies swapped my busted tyre

Just like in a movie, they pulled up around me, engines bubbling ominously, all leather and gang colours. I thought, ‘This is it – they’re gonna kill me’Read more in the kindness of strangers seriesIt was late, dark and a storm was brewing. I’d been helping a friend do some work at a property in the Colo valley, north-west of Sydney, and was heading home at about 11pm. As I was driving across the Colo River Bridge, there was a sudden, loud bang. I’d hit a pothole and my front driver’s side tyre had blown, just about swallowing my hatchback with it.It was 1988 and, in those days, the area around Colo was pretty rough. It was full of bikies – proper bikies, not the drug-running kind that don’t even have bikes nowadays. The back roads around there are mainly deserted and can be eerie at the best of times. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The kindness of strangers: when I was stranded on a deserted back road, three bikies changed my busted tyre

Just like in a movie, they pulled up around me, engines bubbling ominously, all leather and gang colours. I thought, ‘This is it – they’re gonna kill me’ Read more in the kindness of strangers seriesIt was late, dark and a storm was brewing. I’d been helping a friend do some work at a property in the Colo valley, north-west of Sydney, and was heading home about 11pm. As I was driving across the Colo River Bridge, there was a sudden, loud bang. I’d hit a pothole and my front driver’s side tyre had blown, just about swallowing my hatchback with it.It was 1988 and, in those days, the area around Colo was pretty rough. It was full of bikies – proper bikies, not the drug-running kind that don’t even have bikes nowadays. The back roads around there are mainly deserted and can be eerie at the best of times. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man arrested over class A drug supply as police storm house in dawn raid

Eyewitnesses say they heard loud voices shouting 'police' and banging noises just after 5.30am

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