3 h. ago Tragic life of skeletal teen 'nearly starved to death by obsese family'

A skeletal 14-year-old girl has been rescued from a house of horrors, where it's been alleged she was nearly starved to death by her obese members of her own family, in what officers have described as the worst case of neglect officers have ever seen

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19 h. ago Netflix’s Selena doc sensitively focuses on her incredible life over her tragic death

The 23-year-old ‘Queen of Tejano music’ was murdered just as her music was set to cross over and revealing new film Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy finds new ways to celebrate herThe tragic circumstances surrounding Selena Quintanilla’s death are well documented. In 1995, while on the verge of US pop crossover success, the 23-year-old Queen of Tejano Music was murdered by one of her employees, Yolanda Saldívar.Selena’s life story has already been told in multiple ways, including through a movie, a musical and a podcast series. However, the touching Netflix documentary Selena y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy is the most empathetic and personal look at her life and career to date. Working alongside Selena’s family, who generously opened their archive of rare photos and home videos and sat for extensive interviews, director Isabel Castro uses intimate recollections and vivid primary sources to trace the artist’s ascent. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago The Stone Roses' Mani's love life with wife Imelda and tragic orphaned twins

The Stone Roses icon Gary 'Mani' Mounfield has tragically died – almost two years to the day after his late wife, Imelda, and has left behind two young children

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44 h. ago Brahms: Symphony No 1, Tragic Overture album review – Petrenko and the Berliners give Brahms organic momentum

(Berliner Philharmoniker)Brahms’s Tragic Overture leaps to life while there is much interest in a careful reading of the composer’s First Symphony in this new recording from the Berlin Philharmonic with their chief conductor The Berlin Philharmonic’s in-house label continues its mission to document chief conductor Kirill Petrenko’s considered interpretations of the classical canon. In this case, it’s Brahms’s First Symphony, captured live at the Philharmonie just two months ago, coupled with the Tragic Overture, recorded last year.For this performance, Petrenko examined Meiningen Court Orchestra scores marked up with specific directions given by the composer himself. The results may strike some as interventionist, however there’s an organic momentum here that is hard to resist with a pronounced flexibility that, according to the excellent booklet essay, clarifies Brahms’s “furious struggle against the bar line”. Balance is impeccable, although solos seem over spotlighted at times by...

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45 h. ago Life of Stone Roses' Mani shown in 10 brilliant photos after tragic death

Gary Mani Mounfield rose to fame with The Stone Roses before joining Primal Scream

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3 d. ago Scots surfer and friend die in tragic accident off the coast of Australia

A Scottish man died when his board snapped while surfing off the coast of Australia in a tragic accident which also claimed the life of his friend.

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4 d. ago Terrifying moment woman plunges from rollercoaster and falls 20ft to the floor

Karin Elmegard fell 20ft to the ground, leaving her with life-long injuries and as trial into the tragic accident gets underway she admitted she is still traumatised by that day

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4 d. ago Parents 'starved son, three, to death "after abusing him in the most gruesome way" after fortune teller convinced them he was a demon'

Elias, born in Tyrol, Austria, died weighing only seven kilograms as a result of months of malnutrition and dehydration, an autopsy found.

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4 d. ago Toddler found dead in pile of laundry and rubbish as mum says 'I should have done more'

Nichole Lynn Boyer is accused of letting her disabled toddler starve to death has pleaded not guilty to murder after police found the boy’s decomposing body hidden in filthy piles of laundry and rubbish

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6 d. ago Lottie Tomlinson on 'dark times' as Lewis Burton promises Caroline Flack 'truth'

Model and entrepreneur Lottie Tomlinson has opened up to the Mirror about how grief has shaped her life, and how she found a way through after the tragic deaths of her mother and sister

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6 d. ago Schoolgirl, 11, 'starved' before death as body found inside bin a year later

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Jacqueline 'Mimi' Torres-Garcia was found in Conneticut, tied up inside a plastic bin with authorities believing the young girl may have been dead for a year

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9 d. ago The Silver Book by Olivia Laing review – a thin line of beauty

The world of 1970s Italian cinema is the glossy backdrop for an elegantly wrought but shallow novel“Ugliness,” noted Pier Paolo Pasolini, “is never completely depressing or repulsive. It contains within it an allegory of hunger and pain, its history is our history, the history of Fascism It is tragic, but immediate, and for this reason, full of life.” For Pasolini, ugliness was its own kind of truth, such that Rome could lay no claim to being the most beautiful city in the world “if it were not, at the same time, the ugliest”. For some, though, that truth risked becoming “unseeable”. The gaze of the touristic voyeur, said Pasolini, skimmed over slums for the poor “filled with illness, violence, crime, and prostitution”, “convinced of the extraneousness and untimeliness of this sub-proletarian, underdeveloped world”.Olivia Laing’s second novel, The Silver Book, is a work preoccupied with beauty. Set in the world of Italian cinema in 1974, the book o...

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1 week ago Truth behind Keeley Hazell's 'tragic' exit from Page 3 modelling and huge career shift

Former Page 3 star Keeley Hazell found fame posing topless in newspapers and magazines in the early 00s. However, her modelling career would eventually become a source of shame

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2 w. ago Woman issues tragic warning to all dog owners after puppy dies in intensive care

When a woman's dog fell seriously ill after a walk, it was rushed to intensive care and tragically passed away. Now, the dog owner is issuing important advice to others

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2 w. ago Loose Women star Gloria Hunniford, 86, opens up on life after tragic loss of husband Stephen

EXCLUSIVE: Gloria Hunniford sadly lost husband Stephen Way last year after 30 years of marriage. Here, she opens up on the prospect of dating after such a loss - and moving on for the sake of her grandkids

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2 w. ago Appalling state of dog left starving to death tied to tree with wire

An animal sanctuary said he was around a third of his normal weight and staff had to stay up all night to keep him alive

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2 w. ago Ancient DNA confirms Black Death in 14th century Edinburgh teen's skeleton

Traces of plague bacteria were found in a medieval skeleton from St Giles' Cathedral after new scientific analysis.

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2 w. ago Poignant twist that saved life of baby after tragic girl, 2, drowned in paddling pool

The tragic death of Hannah Kealy led to a strange coincidence after her parents made the selfless decision to donate her organs

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3 w. ago Poor Nicolas Sarkozy. His hardline views on crime and punishment have come back to bite him

The former French president zealously promoted a zero-tolerance penal system. Luckily for him, his prison visitors include powerful friendsTwenty years ago, a tragic event changed the direction of my life. Three teenagers from the banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, were returning from a football game one afternoon in late October 2005 when they were chased by police. Zyed Benna, Bouna Traoré and Muhittin Altun had done nothing wrong (an inquiry later confirmed this) but were so disoriented by fear of the police, they hid in an electricity substation. In an awful twist of fate, Zyed and Bouna died by electric shock on 27 October 2005, while Muhittin was severely burned – and scarred for life by the ordeal.Their deaths led to rioting across France – the worst in years. The episode also turned me into a fully committed activist against racism and inequality. Yet for some politicians the response was to criminalise the victims. The interior minister at the time for example, N...

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3 w. ago Celebrity Traitors star explains way show has changed their life after shock banishment

Celebrity Traitors' banished star Kate Garraway has opened up about how the BBC show has changed her life after the tragic death of her husband Derek Draper last year

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