14 h. ago Boy and two adults rushed to hospital after house blaze as roof collapses and 70 firefighters rush to scene

Around 70 firefighters and ten engines were sent to the scene of the blaze in Morden, south-west London, shortly after 4am on Tuesday morning.

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32 h. ago Tents pitched indoors for warmth and makeshift radiators: Ukrainians are freezing to death | Janine di Giovanni

As a war correspondent I’ve seen this strategy used before. Putin is weaponising the savage eastern European winterIn the winter of 1993, during the siege of Sarajevo, people burned books and furniture to keep warm. Water froze in pipes. Electricity vanished for the duration of the war. Children slept in coats and hats, their breath visible in dark rooms. Cold itself became a weapon of war.I remember, when I was reporting from the Bosnian capital, seeing doctors operating by candlelight or wearing camping headlamps. I remember old people chopping wood in the park in the centre of the city until there were no trees left, then dragging it home on sledges. I remember the ground being too frozen to bury the many dead on the football pitch, which later became a cemetery. I remember a terrible, frozen day when I went to an old people’s home near a frontline and counted dead body after dead body, all frozen in their sleep. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘I wish I had the power to ease his suffering’: Gaza’s cancer patients trapped by war and blockade

Thousands of Palestinian cancer patients are living without treatment as they await medical evacuationWhen the Gaza war began, Ismail Abu Naji was just 18 months old, his small body covered in swollen, bleeding lesions. Months earlier, doctors had diagnosed him with a rare blood cancer, one that, if untreated, is often a death sentence.In the weeks before the war, Ismail’s family had arranged for him to be transferred to Al-Makassed hospital in Jerusalem, a charitable institution for Palestinians, for specialised care. But the blockade Israel imposed on Gaza after Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack that triggered the conflict meant Ismail could not leave the territory. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Drains running crimson with blood, body bags covering the ground, and frantic loved ones unaware of their loss: Horrifying vignettes from Iran's monstrous slaughter as death toll reaches 16,500

After executing the hospital patients, the Iranian regime did not even bother to clean up the crime scene.

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5 d. ago Teen found dead in storm drain caught 'crying in bedroom' by mum before going missing

Schoolboy Noah Donohoe, from Belfast, was tragically found dead in a storm drain after going missing from his home back in June 2020 - his mother's call to police was played at the inquest today

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7 d. ago 'Owner of Swiss nightclub FILMED waitress unwittingly spark deadly inferno

In a clip taken from Le Constellation in Crans-Montana, a woman can be seen in the foreground holding a champagne bottle topped with a lit sparkler in one hand and a phone in the other.

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8 d. ago CCTV from inside Swiss inferno nightclub 'mysteriously cuts off three minutes before fire broke out' as owners face negligent homicide prosecution

This comes as the owner of Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Jaques Moretti, is under investigation for negligent homicide and negligent bodily harm.

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1 week ago Waitress blamed for starting Swiss inferno 'was made to wear crash helmet which stopped her from seeing sparklers' by female nightclub owner 'she had fallen out with'

Cyane Panine, 24, was filmed wearing the crash helmet from Dom Perignon, the Champagne brand, as she was lifted onto the shoulders of Mateo Lesguer, 23, the in-house DJ.

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1 week ago Moment two ships explode in huge fireball after deadly collision in North Sea caught on CCTV

CCTV footage of a cargo ship crashing into an oil tanker in the North Sea last year, causing a deadly explosion, has been released by police.

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1 week ago Parents of tragic waitress blamed for starting Swiss inferno slam nightclub owners after 'emergency exit was shut to stop people dodging 1,000 euro charge instead of hiring a doorman'

Cyane Panine, 24, was killed in the blaze after fire broke out at the packed club, with footage showing her sitting on a colleague's shoulders holding two champagne bottles fitted with sparklers.

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1 week ago I am terrible at football – but love playing. Can I change my game completely in my mid

For fifteen years I have been devoted to the sport, but can still barely tackle or shoot. I decided to get a coach and give him the challenge of a lifetimeIf I told you I have played football for 15 years, you’d probably assume that I’m decent. Unfortunately, I am not. I have three left feet and a not-very-convincing shot on goal. Despite how many years I have put into the sport, these things show little to no improvement.I play football for the joy of it: the rush of the first whistle; the exhilaration of making a successful tackle or a clever pass; and the feeling of all fears and concerns melting away the moment the game starts. So until recently, the fact that I’m so bad at it occurred to me as, at worst, incidental. I grew up at a time when football was largely considered a men’s sport. In the 90s, there were about 80 girls’ football clubs in England (there are more than 12,000 now); there wasn’t a women’s premier league until 1994; and by the time I was in my 20s, boring jokes...

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2 w. ago Man Utd regret signing 'terrible pro' who 'ate everything then ordered Chinese'

Manchester United's worst ever signing was brought in to replace a club hero - but all he did was 'eat everything' and then 'order a Chinese'

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2 w. ago Husband, 80, caught trying to board flight with dead wife after she passed hours before

This is a breaking news story and is being constantly updated by our reporters as the breaking news story develops

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2 w. ago Fella caught trying to board flight with dead wife as guards realise 'she's cold'

Tenerife south airport security stopped and arrested an 80-year-old man who attempted to board a flight with his wife, who he claims had sadly died just hours before

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2 w. ago Coronation Street spoilers as drunk Lisa lashes out, Jodie blames Shona and a rush to hospital

There's also an unexpected fall out in the ITV soap next week

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2 w. ago Four months and 40 hours later: my epic battle with 2025’s most difficult video game

When Hollow Knight: Silksong came out last summer I was in so much pain that I didn’t know if I’d be able to play it. Could a video game teach me anything new about suffering?Last year I became uncomfortably well acquainted with suffering. In March I started experiencing excruciating pain in my right arm and shoulder – burning, zapping, energy-sapping pain that left me unable to think straight, emanating from a nexus of torment behind my shoulder blade and sometimes stretching all the way up to the base of my skull and all the way down into my fingers. Typing was agony, but everything was painful; even at rest it was horrible. I couldn’t play my guitar; I couldn’t play video games; I couldn’t sleep. I learned how quickly physical suffering lacerates your mental wellbeing.I’d had episodes of nagging pain from so-called repetitive strain injuries before, the product of long hours hunched over laptops and game controllers over the course of decades, but nothing like this. A few months ...

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2 w. ago Rylan Clark's mum Linda hospitalised in new health battle as fans rush to support

Rylan Clark was inundated with messages of support from his BBC Radio 2 listeners as he and his mother, Linda, updated them about the incident

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2 w. ago ‘I thought I caught flu on holiday but it was a deadly tropical disease’

Gina Donner fell ill while on holiday in the Maldives

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2 w. ago TV icon Paul Chuckle shares hospital update as fans rush to support him

Chuckle Brothers star Paul Chuckle, 78, who was recently awarded an MBE, has updated fans after a fall at home

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2 w. ago 'I was caught in deadliest ever storm on Everest and then declared dead'

Beck Weathers was declared dead twice during the 1996 Everest disaster but miraculously survived after being almost completely frozen on the mountain

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