11 h. ago Met terror cop who won bravest officer award for stopping Samurai sword attack is charged with sexually assaulting a woman

Sergeant Stephen Brown, 47, is claimed to have sexually touched the woman without her consent at Biggleswade Railway Station on November 29 2019.

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38 h. ago Trump's 'Doomsday Plane' makes unusual trip as Iran war fears escalate

The Boeing E-4, also known as the 'Doomsday plane,' serves as a flying command post for key officials during times of crisis, particularly designed to survive a nuclear attack.

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40 h. ago Woman stabbed 22 times in shopping centre carpark – but her boob implants saved her life

The 29-year-old woman was subject to a horrific attack after being taken hostage at knifepoint by a madman who stabbed her 22 times, but she was saved by her breast implants

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60 h. ago ‘His music documented an America that no longer exists’: Brian Wilson’s brilliance, by key collaborator Van Dyke Parks

Wilson bought Parks a Volvo when he’d barely met him – and together they brought sublime poetry to pop. He remembers the making of Smile, Surf’s Up and moreIt was the Beatles’ publicist Derek Taylor – who I met backstage at their first concert at the Hollywood Bowl – who first declared “Brian Wilson is a genius” as part of a [1966] publicity campaign. I knew that word would come back to haunt Brian and it did: from then on he was competing in a world of heightened expectations, but he did that very bravely all his life. He was basically forever competing against a previous version of himself, but as the great American beat poet Lewis MacAdams said: “If it’s not impossible, I’m not interested.” As for lyrics, you can’t beat “I’m a cork on the ocean” [in Til I Die] for a redux of thought from a Beach Boy. I will call that genius and I think the word does apply to Brian.He had so many gifts. One of them was mutual empowerment. He brought out the best in everyone around him. In the stud...

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3 d. ago Depraved sex attacker, 46, who held woman captive and tortured her for 10 hours using a blow torch is jailed

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Tommy Hitt, 46, in Wiltshire, was sentenced to 21 years and six months in prison at Winchester Crown Court for vile domestic violence and sexual offences.

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3 d. ago Boy George calls JK Rowling 'bored rich bully' as social media feud erupts over trans rights

Rowling, 59, has faced backlash from Harry Potter stars and actor Pedro Pascal for her views on trans rights

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3 d. ago Police issue CCTV appeal after man and woman attacked following train row

A 48-year-old man and a 45-year-old women were assaulted

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4 d. ago Man and a woman injured in dog attack as 'Bully' seized by police

A man and a woman were taken to hospital after being bitten

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5 d. ago Revealed: SECOND woman stalked and brutally attacked in idyllic French village where British expat was stabbed to death: Six weeks on from Karen Carter's murder, a sinister new development...

Yellow police tape still surrounds Karen Carter's honey-coloured stone cottage on the outskirts of Trémolat, a small village east of Bordeaux.

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6 d. ago Harrowing tales behind Air India plane crash include 'surprise trip' and wife's final wish

The harrowing tales behind doomed Air India flight 171 saw happiness wiped out in an instant - 241 of the 242 people on board tragically died

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6 d. ago MMA monster who raped woman in 'horror movie' attack released from prison by female judge

MMA fighter Edilson Florencio da Conceicao was jailed for eight years for a savage rape but released from prison days later - now his brave victim has spoken out

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6 d. ago ‘I yearned to be a California Girl – but I lived in Burnley’: readers on their love for Brian Wilson

From memories of photoshoots and telephone calls with the late Beach Boy, to appraisals of his complex but pure music, Guardian readers pay tribute to a greatWhether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson made pop’s most overwhelmingly beautiful musicRay Davies, Graham Nash and others on Brian Wilson’s songwriting geniusEndless summer: how Brian Wilson soundtracked CaliforniaI remember the Christmas after my mother’s death in 1989 when I was 15, I purchased the best-of collection from Asda, interested to see what I would hear. It had the hits, of course, but also a few of the deeper cuts from Pet Sounds and onwards. To say this changed my life is an understatement – Brian’s music, harmonies and subject matters struck an incredible chord in me. It did exactly what he existed for, bringing comfort to a heart and soul that needs it. I’ve been a fan ever since – I saw him at the Royal Festival Hall on his first Pet Sounds tour, watched him perform Smile in utter disbelief and wonder in Liver...

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7 d. ago Air India plane crash: Trip to meet son in London becomes last moment for elderly Maharashtra couple

Air India plane crash: Trip to meet son in London becomes last moment for elderly Maharashtra couple  Mint

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7 d. ago Manchester park taped off after 'two unknown men' carry out horror sex attack on woman

A cordon is in place in Platt Fields Park

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8 d. ago Disney and Universal sue Midjourney AI for copyright infringement

Disney and Universal have filed a copyright lawsuit against popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have enter the legal battle over generative AI

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8 d. ago Woman stabbed more than 25 times in attack by husband while pushing baby in pram

Habibur Masum has denied murdering his wife Kulsuma Akter in Bradford.

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9 d. ago ITV Love Island viewers call for boy to be axed over 'gross' remark

The new series has already been thrown into chaos with new twists and turns

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1 week ago Woman, 21, who sparked vicious gang attack on her neighbour after explosive row over DOG poo avoids jail

Chloe Jolly, 21,  was told she has narrowly escaped an immediate prison sentence after footage of the drug-fuelled outburst, in Middlesbrough, was shown to a court.

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1 week ago 'After taking Mounjaro, my life fell apart': Women reveal disturbing side effects from jab that started within days

In the UK, anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia are not listed as possible side-effects for Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro.

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1 week ago Woman is 'attacked and raped in broad daylight in public park' as police arrest 52

Police have arrested a man, 52, in relation to the incident which took place in Folkestone, Kent at around 12.40pm on Friday. The alleged victim sustained a facial injury.

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