12 m. ago Rising country star Conner Smith ‘cooperating with police’ after woman killed in car crash

Singer’s representative said his ‘heart goes out’ to the family of a woman who died

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28 m. ago Urgent warning to UK travellers amid 'record high levels' of deadly Victorian disease

Cases of the "serious preventable illnesses" have reached record highs in Britain

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34 m. ago Coronation Street fans 'rumble' DS Lisa Swain's past over cryptic Kit Green comments

The pair have recently been rocked by the death of their colleague, PC Craig Tinker

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42 m. ago US to put four prisoners to death this week as Trump pushes for executions

Killings scheduled in Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and South Carolina despite concern over states’ methodsFour executions are scheduled across the US this week, marking a sharp increase in killings as Donald Trump has pushed to revive the death penalty despite growing concerns about states’ methods.Executions are set to take place in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. A fourth, scheduled in Oklahoma, has been temporarily blocked by a judge, but the state’s attorney general is challenging the ruling. Continue reading...

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54 m. ago Net migration will halve again to 200,000 next year due to worsening job market, Home Office advisor predicts

Net migration to the UK fell from around 860,000 to 431,000 in the year up to December 2024

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72 m. ago ‘I was never so happy to be so wrong’: Rory McIlroy’s biographer on the moment Augusta fell

A new book chronicles the golfer’s journey to completing a career grand slam, as well as the roots in Northern Ireland that helped define himTimothy Gay excitedly describes the Sunday in April when Rory McIlroy finally won the Masters, completing a long-awaited career grand slam.Gay recalls “the incredible moment when the final putt dropped in. He fell to his knees and began weeping.” Continue reading...

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75 m. ago Horror as student, 15, stabs female teaching assistant, 31, to death during bag search at French school

The 31-year-old teaching assistant was attacked and seriously wounded with a knife during a bag search outside of the Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent.

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82 m. ago Scene of destruction after car smashes into shop and bus stop with man killed

An elderly woman has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving

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87 m. ago Missiles thrown at police during unrest in Northern Ireland following alleged sexual assault

PSNI’s chief superintendent urged everyone ‘to remain calm and to act responsibly’

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88 m. ago Orkney Assassin Michael Ross' lawyer hopes Prime Video documentary will lead to 'new evidence'

The Orkney Assassin: Murder In The Isles has been released on Prime Video to mark the anniversary of Shamsuddin Mahmood's death in a Kirkwall restaurant in 1994.

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89 m. ago Horror as French student 'stabs teaching assistant to death during bag search'

A 14-year-old pupil is reported to have stabbed a teaching assistant, aged 31, outside Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent, France, with the woman dying from her injuries

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1 hour ago What's the appeal of AI? It will always reassure you | Zoe Williams

Like many inventions – including mobile phones, Google and Lime bikes – I assumed AI would not catch on. But I’m finding it surprisingly usefulAt the start of the year, a friend asked artificial intelligence how to console his 10-year-old on the death of a pet. I thought this was the most ridiculous thing ever, given that ChatGPT didn’t know the pet, or the 10-year-old. And surely the reason a pet’s death occasions such unique grief is that pets are unique, and therefore cannot be imagined by a machine. So I assumed this wouldn’t catch on – but then I have said that about every new invention, including but not limited to mobile phones, Google and Lime bikes.Now everyone uses AI for everything, and I am slowly waking up to its appeal. Anthropic’s Claude is apparently the more emotionally intelligent, but the beauty of it is that it’s never so intelligent that it would tell you to grow up, get some backbone, and stop asking stupid questions. So you can go to it with anything: “My sist...

Politics

1 hour ago Alice Figueiredo: NHS trust cleared of corporate manslaughter after Londoner, 22, took her own life

North East London NHS Foundation Trust was cleared of corporate manslaughter after the death of Alice Figueiredo

Politics

2 h. ago Exactly where Scots will bask in 20C heat this week before 'batch of storms' arrive

After a month's worth of rain fell in just five days, things are to heat up once more

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2 h. ago Brits accused of smuggling cocaine in Angel Delight packets are hauled back in to Bali court as they face charges that can result in death penalty

Jon Collyer, 38, and Lisa Stocker, 39, were arrested at Bali's international airport in February after being caught with 994g of cocaine stashed inside sachets of Angel Delight, according to authorities.

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2 h. ago Horrifying way mum realised newborn had been given fatal overdose of medication

Kimberley Lindo, from Manchester, has described how 'chaos' erupted after she overheard two nurses discussing that her newborn daughter had been given a fatal overdose of a muscle relaxant

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2 h. ago Greta Thunberg pictured 'on plane back to Sweden' as 8 activists remain in Israel

The 12 'freedom flotilla' activists were allegedly forced to watch 43 minutes of 'uncensored' footage from the October 7 Hamas massacre but were said to have closed their eyes when it started

Politics

3 h. ago Heartbreak as student dies at college sparking police probe into 'unexplained' death

The youngster, who has not been named, was found dead at Hartpury College in Gloucester on Friday.

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3 h. ago Beloved TikTok nan Norma dies as granddaughter Jess left 'devastated'

Norma, who appeared in many videos with her granddaughter Jess, fell asleep peacefully surrounded by family died on Thursday June 5

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3 h. ago Rising country star Conner Smith involved in fatal car accident

Singer’s representative said his ‘heart goes out’ to the family of a woman who died

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