19 h. ago Woman forced to dig her own grave escapes kidnap using friend's dead body

Nine people - one a 'war hero' - were sentenced for their parts in the kidnap of two friends who were made to dig their own graves and thrown down a well, with one shot dead

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29 h. ago Police 'arrest EastEnders actor on suspicion of indecent assault on set in front of shocked BBC soap opera stars'

The famous cast of the popular soap series had been filming scenes on May 7 when a woman complained that a fellow extra had attempted to forcibly kiss her.

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29 h. ago EastEnders actor arrested during filming over 'assault' that left woman 'very distressed'

An extra in his 50s was arrested on the EastEnders set at Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, on May 7 after a woman complained he had tried to forcibly kiss her while filming

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3 d. ago Woman shot dead through her eye by friend after rejecting his romantic advances

Jose Luis Lopez Xique has been charged with second-degree murder after Kayli Grace Arseth was shot after saying she didn't want a romantic relationship

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3 d. ago Two cops stomped on naked woman's head in a Sydney street before pepper

Two police officers have admitted to using unlawful force after attacking the 48-year-old schizophrenic woman in an industrial area at Emu Plains, in western Sydney.

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5 d. ago A baby born to a brain dead mother: this is the horror of abortion bans | Moira Donegan

Adriana Smith was legally dead for months, but kept on life support in Atlanta because she was pregnantOn Friday 13 June, a baby was born in an Atlanta hospital to a woman who had been dead for four months. Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Black nurse and mother, was declared brain dead in February after blood clots formed in her brain. Legally, and by all meaningful measures, she was dead then: the woman who loved her family, laughed with her friends, comforted her son, helped her colleagues and cared for her patients was gone then, and was never coming back. But the state of Georgia, and the administrators of the hospital where she was declared dead, kept her corpse in a state of artificial animation for months. That’s because when Smith went to the hospital in February complaining of a headache, and later became unresponsive, she was about eight weeks pregnant. According to her family, doctors at Emory hospital, in Georgia, told the family that the state’s abortion ban required them ...

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5 d. ago 'Mischievous' dad found dead in flat two days after the birth of his second child

Tom Floyd - known to friends and family as Tommo - was found dead at his flat in Darwen, Lancashire two days after the birth of his second child when his neighbour came to check on his dog

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6 d. ago Speeding Audi driver, 17, told worried friend 'I know these lanes, mate' before horror crash left him and two friends dead just a day after passing his test

Three teenage friends died in a horror crash after a 'naïve, young and inexperienced' driver lost control of his Audi the day after passing his test, an inquest heard today.

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6 d. ago Twisted paramedic jailed for forcing abortion drugs into woman during sex

Stephen Doohan, who previously featured in BBC documentary Paramedics on Scene, researched which drug to insert into a woman he was having an affair with after she told him she was pregnant

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6 d. ago Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn review – an extraordinary debut

This brilliant short-story collection confronts the knotty truths of Northern Ireland’s bloody pastThe literature of the Troubles is a rich one, from Seamus Heaney’s North (1975), Jennifer Johnston’s Shadows on Our Skin (1977) and Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal (1983), to Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man (1994), Anna Burns’s Booker-winning Milkman (2018), and Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses (2022). The latest addition to the corpus, a slim debut story collection by nonbinary Northern Irish writer Liadan Ní Chuinn, shares the brilliance and burning energy of those other books, but there is a fundamental distinction. Ní Chuinn was born in the year of the Good Friday agreement, the 1998 power-sharing deal that delivered peace and brought an end to the Troubles; why, then, should their writing be so obsessed with them?“I believe, these things, they’re the making of us,” a character says at one point. He’s talking about a dead friend, but his words might apply to Northern Ireland’s past 50 or so ye...

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7 d. ago Family pay heartbreaking tribute to 'precious' boy, 16, found dead on railway with friend

Joshua Myers, 16, was found dead on railway tracks alongside his friend on Thursday - his heartbroken family has paid an emotional tribute to the teenager they said was 'incredibly precious to us'

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9 d. ago Sophia Hutchins dead: Caitlyn Jenner's manager and close friend dies aged 29 after tragic accident

Sophia Hutchins, the manager and close friend of Caitlyn Jenner, has died at the age of 29 following a tragic all-terrain vehicle (ATV) crash near Jenner's Malibu home, authorities have confirmed

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9 d. ago Sophia Hutchins dead at 29: Caitlyn Jenner's friend killed in horror ATV accident near reality star's Malibu home

Caitlyn Jenner's longtime friend Sophia Hutchins has died at 29 following a horror ATV accident near the reality star's Malibu home.

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1 week ago Horrifying moment woman was forced to give birth on jail floor as staff took photos

Ashley Caswell was left to give birth on the floor of an Alabama jail shower while prison staff posed for pictures with the newborn, who was still attached to the umbilical cord

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1 week ago ‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France

Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004When 14-year-old Pascal Gélie saw a brochure for an elite French Catholic boarding school boasting swimming in summer and skiing in winter, he begged his parents to send him. He had just watched the American school drama Dead Poets Society and was expecting “sport and friendship”.“On the first night, I realised I’d made a terrible mistake,” said Gélie, now a 51-year-old office-worker in Bordeaux. “There were 40 of us in a dormitory with decrepit mattresses. When I whispered to another boy for some toilet paper to take to the bathroom, the supervisor grabbed me by the face and pointed to the stone terrace outside. Someone told me to take my coat because you could be forced to stand outside for hours in the cold and damp. I was made to stand there all night.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Vivienne lay dead in bath for two days and was found with five empty ketamine bags by a neighbour after worried friends could not get hold of the star, inquest hears

Drag Race star The Vivienne was found dead in the bath by a neighbour after worried friends had struggled to race the star, an inquest heard today.  

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2 w. ago I never take selfies or look in the mirror. This is what happened when I was finally forced to look at my face. It's an issue every woman comes up against: LIZ JONES

'You no longer look like that.' It's always the bad review you hold on to. Never the compliments. I decided to contact David 1.0 for two reasons. Firstly, he knew me before I became a deck chair...

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2 w. ago Four people arrested after Palestine Action incident at RAF Brize Norton

Two women and two men held after damage caused to two Voyager aircraft, say counterterrorism policeFour people have been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence after two Voyager aircraft were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in an action claimed by the campaign group Palestine Action, counterterrorism policing south-east said on Friday.In a statement the force said: “A 29-year-old woman of no fixed abode, and two men aged 36 and 24, both from London, were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, contrary to section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Bloodbath in Bali: Australian is shot dead in front of his terrified wife and his friend is left fighting for life in 'gangland hit' at their villa

The attack is believed to be linked to Melbourne 's feuding Middle Eastern crime syndicates, with one of the victims the former partner of a notorious drug trafficker.

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3 w. ago Iranian opposition supporters grapple with US and Israeli regime change plans

‘We want freedom on our own terms,’ says one Tehran resident, while another writes, ‘Someone is helping us’Despite a substantial internet blackout, news spread quickly in Iran on Tuesday night: the US was considering joining Israel in its war on Iran. The US president, Donald Trump, wrote on Truth Social: “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now Our patience is wearing thin.” Three minutes later, in a second post, he added: “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”When Mehnaz*, a 24-year-old student activist in east Tehran, heard the news, she did not think of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Instead, she thought of her fellow students who were detained, shot and executed by Iranian security forces during the “woman, life, liberty” protests in 2022. Continue reading...

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