2 h. ago Suspect in crossbow and firearm incident in critical condition in hospital

A 38-year-old was arrested and taken to hospital due to a self-inflicted injury after the incident in Otley Road, Leeds, on Saturday, police said.

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7 h. ago Incredible footage from inside raging inferno as firefighter tackles blaze

Dramatic first-person footage filmed on a GoPro by fireman Joseth Abel Espinosa shows the moment he bravely entered a building engulfed by flames.

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2 d. ago Port Talbot chapel up in flames as Historic building's roof engulfed in blaze

The emergency services have been called to the scene of a huge blaze at the grade II listed Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Port Talbot, South Wales

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3 d. ago Port Talbot fire: Historic building goes up in flames as huge blaze erupts from roof

The grade II listed Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Port Talbot, South Wales is on fire - crowds have gathered on the street to watch firefighters tackle the blaze

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4 d. ago New Jersey wildfire forces evacuations and reaches closed nuclear power plant

Stretch of major highway shut as 3,000 people moved to safety and homes left without powerA fast-moving wildfire burning in New Jersey has forced thousands of people to evacuate, closed a stretch of a main highway and reached a shuttered nuclear power plant.Flames from the Jones Road wildfire in Ocean County had reached buildings on the campus of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, according to the local Lakewood Scoop newspaper. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago New Jersey wildfire: Residents evacuated as huge blaze tears through community 'like a war zone'

Shocking photographs capture flames roar from buildings in Barnegat Township, New Jersey, where wildfires have burned throughout Tuesday - and authorities are concerned

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5 d. ago Pope Francis’ approach did not win him friends within the church bureaucracy. But he lit the path for us all | Francis Sullivan

While his legacy in confronting the sex abuse scandal is still incomplete, Francis demonstrated that change is possible and mercy can be realPope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, diesPotential candidates to succeed Pope FrancisEarly in his papacy Pope Francis said the name for God is mercy. He understood the church had become too doctrinaire, divisive and judgmental for too many people. The drift of Catholics from conventional practice in the west said as much. He knew the church had alienated the LGBTQ community, discriminated against women and resisted full participation for divorced and remarried Catholics. He acknowledged that previous popes had not confronted the clerical sex abuse scandal. He wanted to do better and the Catholic world was with him, the institution was not.The Catholic church by its nature is a conservative institution. It uses inertia as a management tool. Change is a slow and drawn-out affair. Francis regularly railed against clericalism because of its...

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6 d. ago First LGBT group to meet Pope hails his ‘transformative’ welcoming approach

Francis said ‘who am I to judge?’ when asked about gay priests in 2013.

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2 w. ago Israeli air strike destroys part of 'last fully functional hospital' in Gaza

Witnesses said the strike caused major damage to the intensive care and surgery departments of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital - with video online showing huge flames after missiles hit the two-storey building

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3 w. ago Scots building bursts into flames as fire crews race to tackle blaze

Shocking images show huge ferocious orange flames engulfing the outer building of the home as clouds of thick black smoke plummet into the air.

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3 w. ago Video shows Kanye West's LA church building up in flames in arson fire less than two years after he bought it

Newly unearthed video shows Kanye West's Los Angeles church building going up in flames as dozens of firefighters battle to extinguish the blaze, less than two years after he purchased it.

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3 w. ago Kanye West admits he 'didn't want kids' in controversial video wearing KKK hood

Rapper Kanye West has admitted that he "didn't want to have children" in a new video interview that shows him wearing a black KKK hood and a swastika necklace

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3 w. ago Dead baby found inside M&S bag near Notting Hill church as woman arrested

The dead newborn baby boy was found in a plastic bag outside a church in Notting Hill in west London as a woman in her 30s was arrested on Saturday and taken to hospital for treatment

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