17 h. ago Second Jill Dando murder witness claims ruthless assassin is the mysterious Man X

A witness driving close to the home of Jill Dando the night she was shot and killed has said they think they may have seen a ruthless assassin running near to the scene

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43 h. ago Bride killed days before Disney wedding after 'she exposed hubby's secret life'

Corrections officer Molly Watson was shot and killed just two days before her scheduled Disney-themed wedding to James Addie, who was later found to be leading a double life

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46 h. ago Urgent manhunt as convicted killer who shot newsagent in the head escapes from Scottish jail

Raymond McCourt, 59, murdered Khalil Mahmood, a newsagent, by shooting him in the head in 1993 - the public have been advised not to approach him.

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2 d. ago Costa Del Sol killers waited for man to finish football game before gun attack

The victim, who is believed to be British, was shot dead in a horrific street killing in Spain on Monday evening.

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3 d. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Humanitarian agencies reject IDF claim Gaza medic killings caused by ‘professional failures’

UN, Palestinian Red Crescent and civil defence service condemn lack of accountability after Israeli investigationThe UN’s humanitarian agency, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and Gaza’s civil defence service have rejected the findings of an Israeli military investigation that concluded the killings of 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers in Rafah last month were caused by “professional failures”.Eight PRCS paramedics, six members of the civil defence rescue agency and one employee of Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, were carrying out two rescue missions when they were shot and killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ‘We didn’t want to avoid the reality of what happened’: the drama telling the true story of Jean Charles de Menezes

The 2005 shooting of the Brazilian created national headlines, but the shocking truth of his death remains unknown by many. A new series aims to do justice to his story – and those who fought to clear his nameOn 22 July 2005, 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed by firearms officers on the London underground shortly after boarding a train. The information relayed by the Metropolitan police at the time was that he had leapt over the ticket barriers at Stockwell station and was wearing a bulky coat under which officers thought he was hiding a bomb.The incident occurred two weeks after the 7/7 bombings on London’s transport network, where 52 people were killed, and the day after a copycat attack in which four men tried – and mercifully failed – to detonate devices on three underground trains and a bus; the bombers in the latter incidents fled the scene, triggering a police manhunt. It later emerged that De Menezes was innocent and the intelligence on him was flawed. ...

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4 d. ago The Last of Us fans devastated as major character killed off in tragic twist

The Last of Us season 2 viewers were left devastated after a major character was killed in the second episode of the hit HBO series

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4 d. ago Horror of mum who died after 'botched BBL removal' as tragic twist emerges

A 31-year-old underwent surgery to remove her butt implants, but just minutes later suffered a cardiac arrest and passed away two weeks later. Her family have spoken out and revealed a devastating detail about the tragedy

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6 d. ago Fifty years ago, a young mom traveling with her toddler was raped and shot dead on a roadside. Police finally know who killed her

Phyllis Bailer, 26, was traveling from Indianapolis to Bluffton, Indiana, with her 3-year-old daughter when she was murdered in 1972

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6 d. ago Our brother was shot and stabbed to death on the street... the police bungled the hunt for his killer

Ola Raji's sisters turned detective after vowing to never give up in their fight for justice following his murder 10 years ago in an an estate in Peckham, south London.

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9 d. ago Kentucky's first female chief justice credits Appalachian upbringing for her commitment to fairness

Kentucky’s first woman chief justice says she’s never given much thought to gender

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1 week ago Gun safety warning as relatives charged after boy shot and killed in Australia

Man, 33, and teenager, 14, charged over minor’s death

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1 week ago CIA files detail Cold War UFO encounter where 'aliens turned Soviet troops to stone'

The KGB report claims Soviet soldiers fired and shot down a flying saucer, but were then killed when the aliens onboard fired upon them with a weapon that turned them to stone

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1 week ago ‘Don’t you besmirch Super Mario Bros!’: how video game adaptations became prestige TV

From The Last of Us to Fallout, the days of ropey dramas stemming from consoles is over. Television insiders open up about why high-end shows and gaming now go hand-in-handTwo teenagers plan how to dispatch their latest undead enemy: a kill-shot to the head, or a knife in the side of the neck? One of them throws a glass bottle, distracting their prey. Then she goes in for the kill with all the breezy confidence of a kid playing a video game on easy.It’s a rare moment of playfulness in the second-season opener of The Last of Us, a show that generally takes its storytelling deadly seriously. While the wildly lucrative Minecraft movie strip-mines its IP for laughs, this celebrated HBO series, adapted from the PlayStation titles of the same name, is as focused on taut character drama as the thrills and spills of the zombie genre. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US airstrikes kill six in Yemen as Houthis claim to have shot down another Reaper drone

American military hasn’t claimed responsibility for latest attacks

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1 week ago Bondi Westfield attack victims ‘should still be here’, Anthony Albanese says in first anniversary tribute

PM also praises first responders’ courage and a community ‘united in grief’ one year after stabbing rampage that killed sixElection 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has paid tribute to the victims of the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbings one year on from the tragedy.Forty-year-old Joel Cauchi killed Ashlee Good, 38, Jade Young, 47, Yixuan Cheng, Pikria Darchia, 55, Dawn Singleton, 25, and Faraz Tahrir, 30, and injured a further 10 people at Westfield Bondi Junction on 13 April 2024 before he was shot and killed by police inspector Amy Scott.Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading...

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1 week ago Cop killer's final act of defiance before being shot dead by prison firing squad in violent execution

Mikal Mahdi, with a hood over his head, cried out as the three bullets to the heart hit him and his arms flexed. A red bull's-eye that was placed over his heart was pushed into the bullet wound in his chest.

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1 week ago Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree

Mahdi, who killed an officer in 2004, endured torture in his childhood and argued he was denied a fair trialA prison firing squad in South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday, the second recent death row killing in the state by authorized gunfire.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees inside the execution chamber, where authorities have carried out a rapid spree of killings as South Carolina aggressively revives capital punishment. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Essex Boys gangland killer Michael Steele will be released from prison despite last ditch bid by ministers to keep him behind bars

Alongside accomplice Jack Whomes, Steele (inset) shot and killed three men in Rettendon, near Chelmsford, in December 1995 in a brutal gangland execution.

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