28 h. ago Moscow bus passengers told to rush to bomb shelters as nuclear warning played

Terrified Russian bus passengers were played a message warning of an imminent nuclear strike by pranksters. The incident in Moscow saw people on a bus ordered to run to a bomb shelter

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65 h. ago Crews fight fire at UK landmark as 'people seen running down hill as flames spread'

The fire on Arthur's Seat was raging 'well into the night' as locals told of their devastation at the events taking place on the iconic Scottish landmark

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4 d. ago ‘Bizarre and wrong’: Danish zoo sparks debate with plea for pets to use as food

Aalborg zoo points to importance of mimicking natural feeding, but critics say its campaign devalues petsAfter a Danish zoo posted a reminder of its long-running programme allowing people to donate their healthy, small pets to be “gently euthanised” and fed to predators, reaction poured in from across the globe.But beyond the battleground playing out on social media – where some protested against the idea of using pets as prey and others praised the zoo’s efforts to drum up a practical food supply – some were swift to point out that the zoo was simply laying bare the reality of keeping carnivores in captivity. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Emory University shooting updates: People told ‘RUN HIDE FIGHT’ as active shooter reported

Police have swooped on the scene and urged people to avoid the area

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5 d. ago ‘Active shooter’ reported near Emory University as Atlanta police rush to the scene

Emory University warned people in the area to ‘RUN, HIDE, FIGHT’

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6 d. ago People cooking runny eggs told to look for one symbol before tucking in

Anyone cooking soft, runny eggs is being urged to check one important symbol before eating. Here's everything you need to know about the British Lion mark on eggs

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6 d. ago Tower Bridge and Cutty Sark on Big Half finisher medal designed with refugees

Members of the Coopah Refugee Run Club helped to design the medal and long-sleeved T-shirt for finishers at next month’s half marathon.

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8 d. ago Heathrow Airport chaos as area closure sees 'people running with luggage in the roads'

Due to a 'technical issue', a central tunnel connecting Heathrow Airport's terminals 2 and 3 has been shut, causing people to make an alternative journey via the street

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8 d. ago Four people shot dead in Montana bar and army veteran on the run: All we know as manhunt continues

Authorities are searching for Army veteran Michael Paul Brown, accused of shooting dead Nancy Kelley, Daniel Baillie, David Leach and Tony Palm inside a bar in Anaconda

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9 d. ago The Trolley Solution: the internet’s most memed moral dilemma becomes a video game

Indie developer’s take on the ethical conundrum about choosing who to save from an oncoming train may be gimmicky, but with its charm and bite-size levels, it’s ideal for the social media eraIn 1967, British philosopher Philippa Foot unwittingly created one of the internet’s most regurgitated memes. A runaway train is hurtling towards five people tied to the tracks. You can pull a lever to divert the train to a different track to which only one person is tied. Do you intervene to kill the one and spare the five?What if one of the tracks twisted into a really cool loop-the-loop? Or the trolley was replaced by a bloodthirsty Thomas the Tank Engine? Or the whole dilemma was clumsily altered to comment on the political controversy of the day? Originally formulated as a reflection on moral decision-making, the trolley problem found a second life in the 2010s as a well of inspiration for variously silly, irreverent and self-referential trolley-based memes. Now, it may be entering its thir...

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3 w. ago ‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years onIt was the moment comedy broke with sexism – yet it happened in a strip club. It was a fervour of free creative expression – yet it retained a commercial, careerist edge. It was one of the longest-running and most successful brands in UK comedy history – which few people could now recognise.At the Edinburgh fringe this summer, The Comic Strip Presents will be memorialised in a series of film screenings and Q&As with its creator and prime mover Peter Richardson. Richardson was the impresario behind the legendary comedy club The Comic Strip, which opened in 1980. When he and his star performers – Rik Mayall, Alexei Sayle, French and Saunders among them – created Channel 4’s The Comic Strip Presents a couple of years later, he could legitimately claim to be the man who brought...

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3 w. ago Fury as Trump appears as 'superhero' in bizarre 'Golden Age' Instagram post

People across social media are baffled as to who is running the official White House Instagram account as they post insane superhero style cartoon picture of Donald Trump

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3 w. ago ‘When you get old, you become young again’: remembering Fauja Singh, the marathon man

After a life shaped by grief and resilience, Singh began running at 89 and became an icon of endurance and joyThe first 20 miles of a marathon are not difficult, Fauja Singh once said. When it came to the last six miles, however, “I run while talking to God.”The fact that he was attempting the distance at all might seem, to some, proof of divine assistance. Singh was 89 when he first took up distance running, having stumbled across a TV snippet of people running a marathon, and decided to give it a go. By his mid-90s he was a marathon veteran, a record holder for his age group and even a poster model for Adidas; aged 101 – or at least so he believed, since he never had a birth certificate – he became the oldest person ever to run the distance. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The five people in the running to be next councillor for Pontypridd Town

The by election will take place on Thursday, July 17 after Dawn Wood previously announced her decision to step down

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4 w. ago Southend plane crash: Everything we know as victims named and airport closed

Southend Airport remains closed after a small aircraft crashed close to the runway and burst into flames, killing four people.

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