34 h. ago Teen left disfigured after shooting himself in the face says 'life's better now'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Triston Wilson miraculously survived an attempt to take his own life - but despite being left blind and drastically disfigured, he said things have changed for the better

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60 h. ago Toronto pub shooting sees 12 wounded including several now fighting for life as balaclava

Police said they were called to reports of multiple people being shot near Progress Avenue and Corporate Drive at around 10.40pm on Friday local time.

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6 d. ago Matz Sels saves in FA Cup shootout to edge Nottingham Forest past Ipswich

Sometimes football is a game of four halves, and on this occasion three of them were devoid of quality. In the end, only one moment truly mattered and that was Matz Sels’ penalty shootout save from Jack Taylor to send Nottingham Forest into the FA Cup quarter-finals at Ipswich’s expense.George Hirst and Ryan Yates exchanged goals in the second half of normal time, when the game finally came to life, but no one could source a winner prior to the shootout after a forgettable extra time. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Matz Sels is FA Cup shootout hero as Nottingham Forest edge out Ipswich

Sometimes football is a game of four halves, and on this occasion three of them were devoid of quality. In the end, only one moment truly mattered and that was Matz Sels’ penalty shootout save from Jack Taylor to send Nottingham Forest into the FA Cup quarter-finals at Ipswich’s expense.George Hirst and Ryan Yates exchanged goals in the second half of normal time, when the game finally came to life, but no one could source a winner prior to the shootout after a forgettable extra time. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Innocence review – monumental achievement shows how essential opera can be

Adelaide festival Finnish opera of staggering depth by Kaija Saariaho and directed by Simon Stone, set in the aftermath of a school shootingGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s a cliche as regular as clockwork in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy: “That was the day we lost our innocence”. But do we really start from a place of innocence or are we always somehow complicit in acts of violence? Do perpetrators attack from without, or are they an expression of something abominable within the community, its monstrous id? These questions haunt the halls of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s extraordinary contemporary opera as surely as they’ll disturb the dreams of its audience.Innocence opens with a deeply ominous series of chords from the lowest keys on the piano, as swirling strings and smirking bassoons mix with the trills and runs from the higher woodwinds, punctuated by the occasional crash of percussion. Atmospheric doesn’t begin to cover it. The music has shades o...

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1 week ago Three men arrested over Dalston shooting that left girl, 9, with life

The men - aged 36, 35 and 28 - were taken into custody in the early hours of Tuesday

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1 week ago Alec Baldwin threatens the life of a Trump impersonator in viral footage as new reality show debuts

Alec Baldwin threatened the life of a Trump impersonator who goaded him about the Rust shooting in a shocking viral video this week.

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