24 h. ago Terrified passengers film plane’s engine cover breaking apart mid

This is the moment terrified passengers watched on as a plane's engine cover broke apart mid-air.

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56 h. ago ‘I’m less apologetic now’: Kelly Macdonald on her Trainspotting teen highs and hitting her stride in her 40s

She hid in the toilets during the Trainspotting shoot – yet became a screen sensation. As the star plays a police therapist in new Netflix thriller Dept Q, she explains why today’s young female actors leave her in aweOne of the good things about playing a therapist, says Kelly Macdonald with a laugh, is that you get to sit down a lot. There’s a fun scene in the new Netflix thriller Dept Q in which her character, Dr Rachel Irving, weary of her client DCI Carl Morck, plants herself down behind her desk to eat her packed lunch in front of him. Morck may be the kind of troubled detective we’re used to seeing in police dramas, but Irving isn’t a typical therapist. She’s blunt, antagonistic even. It’s a “shitty” job working with police officers, she tells him. Another time she describes him as “doolally”, which in my experience is not something a typical therapist would say; Macdonald, who has had therapy, “but not regularly”, may agree.In the show – adapted from novels by the Danish auth...

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2 d. ago Inside Spain's 'homeless city' airports crisis: New shocking images

At Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport in the Spanish capital, a 'hidden city' of the homeless has been allowed to balloon over the past 10 years.

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3 d. ago Gran Canaria centre for unaccompanied migrant children closed over abuse allegations

Court asks police to raid centre on outskirts of Las Palmas after ‘extensive evidence and testimony’ of alleged crimesA court in the Canary Islands has ordered the closure of a centre for unaccompanied migrant children, citing allegations that include physical abuse, hate crimes and threats.Police vehicles pulled up to the centre on the outskirts of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria on Monday, entering the facility where 43 children were being housed. A court on the island – the first in Spain to specialise in violence against children and adolescents – said it had asked police to carry out the raid “in light of the extensive evidence and testimony” of alleged crimes taking place in the centre. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Gran Canaria migrant centre closed after allegations of child abuse

Court asks police to raid centre on outskirts of Las Palmas after ‘extensive evidence and testimony’ of alleged crimesA court in the Canary Islands has ordered the closure of a centre for unaccompanied migrant children, citing allegations that include physical abuse, hate crimes and threats.Police entered the centre on the outskirts of Las Palmas on Monday where 43 children were being housed. A court on the island – the first in Spain to specialise in violence against children and adolescents – said it had asked police to carry out the raid “in light of the extensive evidence and testimony” of alleged crimes taking place in the centre. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Gran Canaria airport shooting: Moment teen knifeman shot dead by police

Warning distressing content. Footage shows an 18-year-old man from Gambia, who onlookers described as appearing mentally unstable, going on a rampage at Gran Canaria airport in Spain before he was shot by police

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5 d. ago Terrifying moment tourists run for cover at Gran Canaria airport as Spanish police shoot rampaging knifeman dead after he threatened holidaymakers

The 18-year-old Gambian was shot five times after going berserk and lunging at one of the officers who confronted him.

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8 d. ago Real Madrid’s Raúl Asencio could face trial over alleged sharing of explicit video

Asencio and three former Madrid youth players accusedGran Canaria incident in 2023 involved ‘a female minor’The Real Madrid defender Raúl Asencio and three former youth players at the club could face trial in connection with the alleged filming and distribution of a sexual video that has left two women, one of them a minor, with symptoms of post-traumatic stress.In a statement released on Wednesday, a judge on Gran Canaria said he had concluded his preliminary investigation into the recording and distribution of the incident, which is alleged to have taken place in a private area of a beach club on the island on 15 June 2023. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Warning as Spanish holiday hotspot restricts access to airport

The airport is struggling with growing numbers of people sleeping overnight

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9 d. ago Huyton shooting LIVE: Police shoot armed suspect after 'man and woman stabbed'

Armed officers have shot a suspect at the Bluebell Estate in Huyton, Merseyside, following a report of a man and woman being stabbed this evening, police confirmed

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1 week ago Majorca's beaches are turned white with ICE as freak storm hits the tourist hot spot

Tourists and locals alike were sent running for cover as huge hailstones pelted the resort of Porto Cristo, where idyllic beaches turned from golden to white in a matter of minutes

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1 week ago Pet lion mauls man and feasts on his corpse as cops forced to shoot beast dead

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: An Iraqi man was mauled and eaten by his pet lion just days after he bought it to keep it in his back garden before police were forced to shoot and kill the beast

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1 week ago Huge £1bn EU airport where chaos forced its closure after just 4 years

Despite a massive investment of over £1bn, an unfortunate mix of permit and planning hiccups saw this Spanish airport close less than four years after opening

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2 w. ago Family's Spanish holiday hell with people in tears during blackout airport chaos

Natalie Connelly was travelling home from a holiday in Marbella, Spain, with her large family, when they were caught up in the power outage

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2 w. ago UK tourists in Canary Islands issued health warning following ‘extreme’ alert

Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura are among the worst affected

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2 w. ago Bodycam footage released of moment brother of ‘Real Housewives’ star was shot and killed by police

Geoffrey Stirling was recorded running a red light and pleading ‘don’t shoot me’ before grabbing a police officer’s taser

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2 w. ago Bodycam footage released of moment brother of RHOC star was shot and killed by police

Geoffrey Stirling was recorded running a red light and pleading ‘don’t shoot me’ before grabbing a police officer’s taser

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2 w. ago Police in Florida shoot woman dead in car park after disturbance

The woman had brandished the gun, in between cars, in a car park in the highly populated area.

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2 w. ago Police shoot woman dead in restaurant car park in major incident as officer 'injured'

Three officers shot at the woman, who was declared dead at the scene, at a restaurant car park in Deerfield Beach, Florida on Thursday. It is believed she had been inside the restaurant with a gun

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2 w. ago Police in Florida shoot dead woman in car park following disturbance

Broward Sheriff’s Office said police were called to a disturbance in Deerfield Beach, which is a city in Florida, where it is said three officers opened fire at a woman

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