6 h. ago UK teaching assistant banned from classrooms after telling students he killed hundreds of people

Scott Trigg-Turner made the inappropriate comments to a group of Year 8 students and made other claims about his background that colleagues became suspicious of

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3 d. ago Distracted driving: Motorists using their mobile phones at the wheel killed 42 people last year and caused hundreds of serious accidents

Distracted motorists caused a total of 655 serious accidents, the latest data shows.

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6 d. ago Deadly Asian floods are no fluke. They’re a climate warning, scientists say

Southeast Asia has been hit by unusually severe floods this year, with late storms killing more than 1,200 people and leaving hundreds missing across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand

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2 w. ago Relatives of disappeared brace themselves as bodies are exhumed from notorious mass grave in Colombia

Medellín’s Comuna 13 neighbourhood saw extraordinary violence in the 2000s, with hundreds of people detained, tortured or killedWhen Operation Orión began in October 2002, Hermey Mejía thought the violence that had ravaged his corner of Medellín for decades would finally come to an end.The 22-year-old told his mother, Teresa Gómez, that he hoped Colombia’s armed forces would get rid of the urban guerrillas who ruled the streets of Comuna 13, then one of the most dangerous districts in the world. The area, of strategic importance for drugs and weapons trafficking, had long been trapped in a cycle of bloodshed: first under Pablo Escobar’s narcos, then, after their fall, leftwing militias. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Hundreds gather for vigil for five people killed in tragic car crash that has left 'a dark cloud over entire town'

Locals said the tragedy has cast a 'dark cloud' over the town as three separate vigils were arranged.

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3 w. ago France honors the victims of the Paris attacks' night of terror 10 years on

Paris is marking the 10th anniversary of terrorist attacks that killed 132 people and injured hundreds

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