86 m. ago Killed by a driver who couldn't read top line of Specsavers eye test, 'this needs to stop'

Vernon Law visited the optician a month before the fatal collision in Whitworth

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2 h. ago WPP races to harness AI before the technology kills its business

Chief executive Mark Read pushed to adopt artificial intelligence but is set to exit with the share price languishing

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3 h. ago Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson denies foraging death caps two hours before buying dehydrator

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examinationErin Patterson questioned over what her children ate the day after fatal lunchProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC begins to ask Erin Patterson about evidence regarding what her children ate the day after the lunch. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Austria school shooting latest: Gunman who killed 10 in Graz was former student who took own life in toilet

Police say 12 people are injured with some in a serious condition following attack

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3 h. ago Governor Newsom warns Trump is mentally unfit after bizarre claim and LA troop chaos

Donald Trump claimed he spoke to California Governor Gavin Newsom 'yesterday' and has 'killed people' in Los Angeles, when in fact he has not spoken to him 'yesterday' or at all

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4 h. ago In 'Youth Group' comic, evangelical kids sing silly songs about Jesus, fight demons

When he was a teenager in the 1990s, Jordan Morris was always up for a bit of mischief — as long as it didn’t involve sex or drugs, two things he was sure would kill him

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4 h. ago Australia mushroom trial live: Erin Patterson tells court she thought beef wellington recipe was ‘the perfect dish’ for dried mushrooms

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder after a fatal beef wellington lunch in Leongatha in 2023. Follow live‘You knew how suspicious it would look’: Erin Patterson makes series of denials in tense cross-examinationErin Patterson questioned over what her children ate the day after fatal lunchProsecutor Nanette Rogers SC begins to ask Erin Patterson about evidence regarding what her children ate the day after the lunch. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago My mother killed my dad by hitting him on the head with a hammer

When Mum drove me to work that Sunday morning, I thought she seemed subdued - but then she hadn't been her usual chatty self for more than a year, ever since she and Dad split up...

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6 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Deaths in Kharkiv as Russia continues strikes on civilian targets

Latest prisoner exchange includes Mariupol defenders; European Commission unveils 18th round of sanctions. What we know on day 1,204At least two people were killed and 28 injured in an overnight Russian drone attack on Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday morning. “Seventeen strikes by enemy UAVs were carried out in two districts of the city this night,” said the Kharkiv mayor, Igor Terekhov. More than 15 apartments were on fire in a five-storey building and several houses were hit. Terekhov added “there may be people trapped under the rubble”.Separately the death toll rose to at least three with 13 wounded after Russia attacked Kyiv and Odesa with waves of drones and missiles early on Tuesday. The civilian targets hit included a maternity ward and a cathedral. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, voiced his frustration with Donald Trump by calling for “concrete actions” rather than “silence” after seven of the Ukrainian capital’s 10 districts were hit, writes Daniel ...

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6 h. ago Brutal killer who raped and shot young mum twitches during execution after 30 years on death row

Anthony Wainwright kidnapped Carmen Gayheart from a supermarket car park in Florida in April 1994 before raping her and shooting her twice in the back of the head

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7 h. ago Dad charged with murder after 'leaving baby inside roasting hot car for nine hours'

Joseph Boatman, 32, allegedly left the tot inside the vehicle for nine hours after consuming 'multiple' alcoholic beverages - and while temperatures that day reached a scorching 35C

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7 h. ago Britain's funniest schoolkids crowned with gag that left judges 'laughing out loud'

Britain's funniest school class has been revealed after coming up with a killer one-liner that had the panel of judges 'laughing out loud' during a competition run by the Beano

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8 h. ago Coast Guard suspends search for plane that crashed into the ocean off San Diego and killed 6

The Coast Guard has suspended the search for the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into the ocean shortly after taking off from San Diego and killing all six people aboard

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9 h. ago At least seven dead and 50 wounded as Colombia hit with bombings and gun attacks

Police say 19 attacks launched on targets in Cali and nearby areas, hitting police posts, municipal buildings and civiliansColombia has been rocked by a string of coordinated bomb and gun attacks that killed at least seven people and wounded at least 50 across the country’s south-west, deepening a security crisis roiling the Andean country.Police said attackers launched 19 attacks on targets in Cali – the country’s third largest city – and several nearby towns, hitting police posts, municipal buildings and civilian targets. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Daughter of accused Gilgo Beach killer believes her father ‘most likely’ did it, new film says

The daughter of Rex Heuermann, the accused Gilgo Beach serial killer, told a new documentary she believes her father “most likely” responsible

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9 h. ago Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's desperate 'rabbit hole' defense blasted in court filing

Prosecutors in Idaho have fired back at Bryan Kohberger's 11th-hour attempt to delay his capital murder trial, furiously responding: 'It is time.'

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10 h. ago Austria school shooting death toll rises to 11 as nation mourns after 'drop out' ex

A teacher and students were killed during the attack in second largest city Graz on Tuesday by gunman with two firearms

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10 h. ago Mom ‘engulfed in flames’ and suffered burns to 48% of her body in horrific smoker BBQ explosion

Isabell Anderson suffered burns to over 46 percent of her body after a smoker engulfed the mother of three in flames on Memorial Day.

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10 h. ago Hegseth tells Congress his ‘war fighters’ are primed for ‘lethality’ ... as he sends them to face American protesters

ANALYSIS: Hegseth has spent months boasting about the laser focus of his department on fighting wars and killing people, only for his first deployment to be against U.S. civilians, Richard Hall writes

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10 h. ago My last words to Death Row inmate who murdered my sister in cold blood

Carmen Gayheart was loading groceries into the back of her blue Ford Bronco when she was ambushed in the parking lot of a Florida Winn-Dixie. Her body was found five days later.

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