26 h. ago Shocking new Madeleine McCann claim that 'drunk' German wife of British man ran the child over before couple dumped the body at sea emerges in Portuguese media report

German prosecutors refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today.

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32 h. ago Shocking new Madeleine McCann claim that British man and his 'drunk' German wife ran the child over then dumped the body at sea emerges in Portuguese media report

German prosecutors refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today.

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32 h. ago Madeleine McCann UPDATES: Bombshell new theory over disappearance of toddler

German prosecutors refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today

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1 week ago Teen learning how to drive accidentally kills relative by plunging off cliff in California during lesson

The teen girl accidentally drove a car off a 40-foot cliff while receiving the lesson from a male relative. He died at the scene, but she survived with serious injuries.

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1 week ago ‘I just want security’: fear remains for Syrian massacre survivors awaiting justice

Relatives of those killed in March attacks on Alawite towns worry perpetrators are still at large as investigation draws outHaider* hid in the attic as gunmen rifled through his cousins’ belongings. “Is anyone upstairs? Don’t come down or I will kill you!” yelled a masked man wearing military fatigues. Haider waited in silence for an hour before fleeing his cousins’ house in the village of al-Sanobar on Syria’s coast.He emerged to find his home ablaze and 11 members of his family shot dead, including his 22-year-old brother and 16-year-old cousin. His family were some of the more than 200 al-Sanobar residents killed in sectarian massacres in north-west Syria on 7 March which mostly targeted members of the minority Alawite religion, a sect of Islam. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Film festival to premiere clergy sex abuse documentary partly based on Guardian reporting

God As My Witness details priest’s relationship with teen who later killed himself and other abuse allegationsA new documentary examining the Catholic clergy molestation scandal in New Orleans – based in part on journalism by the Guardian and its local reporting partner WWL Louisiana – is making its world premiere at London’s Raindance film festival in June.God As My Witness is also nominated for best feature-length documentary at the major film festival’s 33rd edition, according to the movie’s director, Lindsay Quinn Pitre. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Plunging value and a content cliff edge: what’s gone wrong at Sky?

Since Comcast takeover, broadcaster has slashed jobs and is losing the exclusive shows that drew subscribersWhen the boss of the media multinational Comcast was putting together an ultimately eye-watering £31bn bid for Sky, he recounted how a chat with a London cab driver reinforced his opinion that he was in pursuit of a crown jewel of UK broadcasting.Brian Roberts’s plan was to use Sky to build an international powerhouse outside the US – after being beaten by Disney in the battle to acquire his prime target, Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox – but some analysts and industry figures wonder if he has been taken for a very expensive ride. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago British teen 'drug mule' was 'visibly shaken' to learn she faces life in Georgia prison and 'had no idea what she was doing', lawyer reveals as family battle to see her

Bella Culley, 18, is accused of illegally importing large quantities of narcotics after she was allegedly caught smuggling 14kg of cannabis into Georgia.

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3 w. ago Dad jailed for murdering teen daughter in kitchen 'play fight' learns fate over sentence

Simon Vickers, 50 gave different accounts of what happened in the seconds before he stabbed a kitchen knife 11cm into his daughter, Scarlett's lung and heart at their home in Darlington

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