3 h. ago Father Ted creator Linehan to face trial over alleged harassment of trans woman

He is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

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5 h. ago Woman's face is plastered across lavish NYC neighborhood for refusing to pick up dog's poop

Rogue posters have appeared in the ritzy Big Apple neighborhood, blasting the unnamed woman who walked with a pup by her side.

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35 h. ago Suspect locked up for alleged crime spree faces murder charges after pregnant woman found dead in abandoned car

James ‘Jaime’ Benavidez, 50, is accused of murdering 32-year-old Keeley Koff

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4 d. ago ‘I felt like the walls were closing in. All I could see was Fred West’s face’: how one woman escaped Britain’s worst serial killers

When Kathleen Richards rented a room at 25 Cromwell Street, she quickly realised the couple who owned it had a dark side. But even after their arrest, there was something about her 15 months at the house that she could never tell anyone – until nowKathleen Richards knows how lucky she is to be alive. In 1979, she woke up in bed to find the serial killer Fred West on top of her. It was by no means the first time West had assaulted the 17-year-old, but it was the last. This time, she managed to escape from the room she was renting at 25 Cromwell Street, perhaps Britain’s most notorious address, where Fred and Rose West raped, tortured and murdered so many girls and young women. Fred West took his own life in January 1995 while on remand, charged with 12 murders. Rose West was convicted of 10 murders later that year and is serving a whole-life sentence.In her own way, Richards has also been serving a life sentence. Today, she is a youthful, likable and traumatised 65-year-old. How...

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5 d. ago White trainers will look like new again if you use common bathroom item everyone has

A woman took to the Mrs Hinch Cleaning Tips Facebook page to ask for help when it came to cleaning her trainers—and people flooded the comments with the same advice

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5 d. ago Murderer who dragged woman’s naked body into his shed after killing her faces at least 20 years behind bars

Christopher Barlow killed Mariann Borocz at his home in Bolton

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6 d. ago Top Boy star Micheal Ward, 27, appears in court charged with rape and sexual assault against a woman

The 27-year-old, best known for his role as Jamie in Netflix 's Top Boy, arrived at Thames Magistrates' Court this morning.

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6 d. ago How a man was pinned for murdering stranger 13 years after brutal attack in park

Anthony Ellis was jailed for life for murdering Igor Pavlov in Manchester

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7 d. ago A wedding guest goes wild on the dancefloor Meryl Meisler’s best photograph

‘There’s so much misery and unfairness in the world, but the people I’m attracted to photographing are those who project confidence and joy. And this guy was marvellous’This photograph is named Man in a Three-piece Suit Dancing Within the Circle at a Wedding, Rockville Centre, NY, March 1976. The bride was Elaine Sherman, mother of my friend Rhonda, who I’d known since seventh grade. Mrs Sherman was getting married for the second time and the dancing man was the husband’s son-in-law, though I don’t remember his name or what he was dancing to.As the title says, it’s a circle dance, where people get into the middle and do their thing. And this guy sure did – he was marvellous. I saw him and just grabbed my camera – boom! I was using a pretty wide-angle lens and a head-on flash: I like to have people all lit up, like stage lighting. All the way to the left of the picture is a woman with just part of her face showing – that’s my mom, Sunny, who was friendly with Elaine. I wonder now how...

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8 d. ago Woman tourist faces five years in Turkish prison after filming viral dance video

A female tourist, who goes by the name of Merjem, has been warned by Turkish authorities that she could face up to five years behind bars

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9 d. ago Illinois man secretly gave woman abortion pills to causes a miscarriage and now faces murder charge, police say

Authorities claimed Emerson Evans, 31, had admitted to dosing his girlfriend with mifepristone without her knowledge or consent

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1 week ago 'I was denied boarding at airport over glaring issue with burgundy passport'

A woman was left red-faced after she was denied boarding at the airport when she realised she'd made a mistake with her burgundy passport

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1 week ago ‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth crisis in Ukraine

Women have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since the invasion, leading to the world’s lowest birth rate and the highest mortality rateIt was one of the most horrifying targets of Russia’s war on Ukraine so far. Reports showed a pregnant woman on a stretcher, her face ashen with shock, legs smeared with blood and a hand holding her bump. Behind her, the bombed-out ruins of Mariupol’s maternity hospital. More than a dozen people, including women in labour, were injured in the attack in March 2022. The woman photographed, Iryna Kalinina, later died along with her unborn baby.In the three years since then, maternity care in Ukraine has remained under constant attack, with more than 2,000 strikes on medical facilities, including 81 affecting maternal care and delivery rooms. Just last month, Diana Koshyk, seven months pregnant, was killed when a missile struck a maternity hospital in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth

Women have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since the invasion, leading to the world’s lowest birth rate and the highest mortality rateIt was one of the most horrifying targets of Russia’s war on Ukraine so far. Reports showed a pregnant woman on a stretcher, her face ashen with shock, legs smeared with blood and a hand holding her bump. Behind her, the bombed-out ruins of Mariupol’s maternity hospital. More than a dozen people, including women in labour, were injured in the attack in March 2022. The woman photographed, Iryna Kalinina, later died along with her unborn baby.In the three years since then, maternity care in Ukraine has remained under constant attack, with more than 2,000 strikes on medical facilities, including 81 affecting maternal care and delivery rooms. Just last month, Diana Koshyk, seven months pregnant, was killed when a missile struck a maternity hospital in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Emily Atack says she is 'flawed' woman who has made 'terrible decisions in love life'

The former Inbetweeners star says she has been 'typecast' as a 'sexy woman' but insists she is more than a 'pouty face and a pair of boobs' and has 'used all of that' in her personal life

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2 w. ago Woman could face death penalty for 'using adult toy to smuggle cocaine inside her'

A 42-year-old woman could face the death penalty after she was allegedly caught smuggling drugs hidden in a sex toy in her genitals into the Indonesian resort island Bali

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2 w. ago Parent fears new UK Universal Studios theme park 'could put children at risk'

Concerns have been raised over a planned Universal Studios theme park in Bedfordshire - one resident, a parent, is worried about strangers in the area where their child plays

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2 w. ago Woman thought she married 'good man' until Facebook message 'changed everything'

A woman is heartbroken after uncovering a secret her husband has been hiding from her since they began dating seven years ago - and it's completely changed their relationship

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2 w. ago Brit tourist, 22, faces 10 years in Thai jail as woman dies days after 'he crashed into her while pulling a wheelie on rented scooter sparking mass street brawl'

The 22-year-old had been riding a rented scooter while doing a stunt using just one wheel when he slammed into Jurairat Petchraksa, 49, outside a bar in Pattaya.

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2 w. ago Man accused of leaving ‘fragile’ woman in camper during the winter to die. Now, he faces criminal charges

Prosecutors charged Blair Hamilton Hayes, 61 with causing the death of 47-year-old Emma Jean Teague this March

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