78 m. ago "The tram hit the van and it just didn't stop": Shock as girl, 3, dies in city centre collision tragedy

The M.E.N understands police are hunting the van driver after a three-year-old girl died of her injuries

Events

2 h. ago Elon's VERY different baby mamas: How Musk has welcomed 13 children with polar opposite women from 'anti

The founder of SpaceX , 53, is father to at least 12 children with three different women. Here FEMAIL explores the very different women behind the Tesla CEO's growing brood of children.

Society

5 h. ago Tragedy as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Lynne Marie Stewart dies age 78

Pee-Wee Herman star Lynne Marie Stewart has died, her actress friend has confirmed in a heartbreaking statement

Events

5 h. ago Inside harrowing 10 days that turned Vladamir Putin into a cold

Vladimir Putin's most formative event in his rule came 25 years ago when Kursk sank. The most deadliest naval incident of post-Soviet Russia resulted in the death of 118 men

Politics

5 h. ago Inside harrowing 10 days that turned Vladimir Putin into a cold

Vladimir Putin's most formative event in his rule came 25 years ago when Kursk sank. The most deadliest naval incident of post-Soviet Russia resulted in the death of 118 men

Politics

6 h. ago New bat strain of coronavirus discovered by researchers in Wuhan

The potential for human infection has yet to be explored

Science

7 h. ago 'Lost in the darkest corner of the internet', the monster who should never be allowed near dogs

One of the dogs died as a result of the abuse

Politics

8 h. ago Moments from disaster: A last smiling selfie on doomed MH17, the final leap of a bike stuntman and a parachute jump that went badly wrong... the tragic stories behind haunting final photos

Whether taking a selfie, filming a daring activity or simply posing for a holiday snap, the minutes before disaster strikes can be the happiest and most exhilarating of people's lives.

Events

10 h. ago Plastic bags and chicken bones: the fossils scientists believe will become our eternal legacy

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientistsAs an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not a glorious legacy. But two scientists exploring which items from our technological civilisation are most likely to survive for many millions of years as fossils have reached an ironic but instructive conclusion: fast food and fast fashion will be our everlasting geological signature.“Plastic will definitely be a signature ‘technofossil’, because it is incredibly durable, we are making massive amounts of it, and it gets around the entire globe,” says the palaeontologist Prof Sarah Gabbott, a University of Leicester expert on the way that fossils form. “So wherever those future civilisations dig, they are going to find plastic. There will be a plastic signal that will wrap around the globe.” Continue reading...

Science

10 h. ago ‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientistsAs an eternal testament of humanity, plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones are not a glorious legacy. But two scientists exploring which items from our technological civilisation are most likely to survive for many millions of years as fossils have reached an ironic but instructive conclusion: fast food and fast fashion will be our everlasting geological signature.“Plastic will definitely be a signature ‘technofossil’, because it is incredibly durable, we are making massive amounts of it, and it gets around the entire globe,” says the palaeontologist Prof Sarah Gabbott, a University of Leicester expert on the way that fossils form. “So wherever those future civilisations dig, they are going to find plastic. There will be a plastic signal that will wrap around the globe.” Continue reading...

Science

10 h. ago ‘I forgive the girl and boy for what they’ve done. If I didn’t, the hate would eat away at me’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of her daughter Brianna

Transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death by two 15-year-olds. The killers had been radicalised on the dark web, while the victim was trapped in an online world of her own. Now her mother has become friends with the parent of one of the murderersThe first thing I notice about Esther Ghey is a blossom tree trailing down her left arm to her hand. There is one pink flower on the tattoo. Pink was her daughter Brianna’s favourite colour. If Brianna had got her way, the whole world would have been pink. And just after she was murdered by two teenage schoolchildren in February 2023, Ghey says, the world did briefly turn pink. The local blossom trees filled with the blossomiest blossom she had ever seen. “It really felt she was with us and that she was sending us a sign she was OK,” she says.Now Ghey has written a book, Under a Pink Sky. It’s a memoir of her and Brianna’s lives, and a manifesto of sorts; a shocking exploration of how deadly smartphones and online spaces can be....

Events

10 h. ago Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot

The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zealIf the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the extreme and far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, the hard-right Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.But we cannot bank on it. The UK government must do all it can to prevent the disaster that has befallen several other European nations. If it fails to meet people’s needs and keeps echoing far-right talking points, we could go the same way as Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, Sweden and Austria.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Culture

12 h. ago Parents and kids navigate talks of loss and tragedy as they return home after LA area fires

When 11-year-old Ceiba Phillips returned to his Southern California neighborhood a month after the devastating Eaton fire, he couldn’t believe his eyes

Society

15 h. ago The disaster that made a monster: New documentary on the Kursk tragedy explores how nuke

It was only three months into his new presidency on August 12 that the nation's prized nuke-equipped sub, kursk, exploded, making it the deadliest naval incident in post-Soviet Russia.

Events

23 h. ago 'It was a perfect storm of events': A tragedy that has left lives shattered

"I never understood heartbreak until now'

Events

24 h. ago BBC removes Gaza documentary from iPlayer after narrator revealed to be son of Hamas official

Further accusations were made about other children in the documentary, such as claims that they were pictured with the militant group Hamas.

Politics

24 h. ago Ford recalls 240,000 Explorers, Aviators due to faulty seat belt assembly

Ford is recalling about 240,000 Explorer and Lincoln Aviator SUVs due to a problem with seat belt anchors that were improperly secured

Politics

24 h. ago Of course it's bonkers to say Ukraine started the war. But here's what I think Donald Trump's trying to achieve: BORIS JOHNSON

Well, folks, it has been a bad few days for the truth. But we have reached clinical levels of insanity. Apparently we can no longer ascribe the tragedy to 'Russian aggression'. Oh really?

Politics

24 h. ago Trump administration looks to slash HUD workers tackling the housing crisis

The Trump administration’s proposal to layoff half of federal workers at the nation’s housing agency is targeting employees who support disaster recovery, rental subsidies, discrimination investigations and first-time homebuyers, according to two documents obtained by The Associated Press

Politics

25 h. ago 'Monster' rapist jailed for life after brutal attack on woman in hospital toilet

Lee James Mullen was out on licence when he carried out the brutal attack

Events