14 m. ago Marvel films costume designer who raped a woman after she put a banana skin in the 'wrong bin' is jailed for 12 years

Marvyn Marques, 38, launched the sickening attack after raging that his victim had put the peel in the wrong rubbish bin and later raped her again as punishment.

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15 m. ago Sandie Peggie: NHS Fife nurse accused of 'judgement and hostility' that 'do not deserve' Equality Act defence

Sandie Peggie’s “judgement and hostility” towards a trans doctor do not deserve the protections of the Equality Act, NHS Fife’s lawyer has argued.

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16 m. ago Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi

As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add upI don’t know if Frankenstein star Christoph Waltz is normally a man of few words but he didn’t have much to say at a recent Venice film festival press conference. Waltz uttered only six words, with “CGI is for losers” constituting four of them. The remaining two were “I don’t”, in response to a question about how he stays hopeful in today’s “monstrous times”.Waltz is certainly not alone in despairing of a world which seems to elevate liars, cheats, and adjudicated sexual predators. It’s hard to feel hope when a genocide has been livestreamed to our phones for almost two years and there is no justice in sight; just a systematic slaughter of the journalists who serve as messengers. No peace prospects on the horizon; just well-paid consultants putting together ethnic cleansing prospectuses so a “Gaza Riviera” can be built. (Oh, sorry, we’re supposed to say “...

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21 m. ago Woman, 83, was found drowned in Storm Babet floodwater by her son after fire service failed to check in on her home, inquest hears

Maureen Gilbert, who was housebound, was discovered floating in the water by her son Paul Gilbert at her home in Chesterfield, Derbyshire after the River Rother burst its banks.

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24 m. ago Prince Andrew once called a member of staff a 'fat lardy a***hole' and was the 'most unpopular royal', former protection officer claims

Paul Page, who served as a Royal protection officer between 1998 and 2004, said in new Channel 5 documentary that the Andrew once verbally attacked a staff member.

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26 m. ago Pregnant woman complains of stomach pains before scan uncovers alarming find

WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT. The expectant mum in question was 34 weeks pregnant when she went to a hospital concerned about her stomach pains

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26 m. ago Pictured: Woman, 25, who plunged to her death from block of flats

Tia Langdon suffered severe injuries following the fall and died in hospital a day later. An 18 year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with her death.

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29 m. ago Trump administration restrictions on Palestinian visa applicants means nearly all would be refused

The Trump administration is piling new restrictions on Palestinian visa applicants, making it nearly impossible for anyone holding a Palestinian Authority passport from receiving travel documents to visit the U.S. for business, work, pleasure or educational purposes

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36 m. ago Doctor's chilling codename for sexual fantasies with teen patient he 'fell in love' with

Dr Cian Hughes first met the girl when she was just 13 and having an operation at a children's hospital in 2011. The pair started a sexual relationship in 2015, when the girl was 17

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42 m. ago In ‘Marc, by Sofia,’ an intimate portrait of fashion luminary and friendship

Sofia Coppola's documentary about Marc Jacobs has premiered Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival

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42 m. ago 'My leg snapped in half as I sat on the sofa, what came next was terrifying'

A woman whose femur bone shattered while she was sat on the couch thought she was going to die on the operating table after being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness

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49 m. ago Southampton 'murder': Woman who died after falling from block of flats pictured

Tia Langdon, 25, suffered significant injuries after falling from a block of flats in Southampton last week - an 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder

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52 m. ago Telling a woman she should know how to clean is discriminatory, tribunal rules

The employment judge said the remark by a former Travelodge hotel manager is offensive due to the association with ‘historic and outdated attitudes’ that women have a domestic role

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54 m. ago Martin Lewis warns over ‘disgraceful’ adverts by criminals misusing his name

Mr Lewis appeared on ITV’s This Morning, after a woman told the show how her husband lost thousands of pounds after being ‘brainwashed’ by criminals.

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63 m. ago Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France

From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. A new documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of France’s ‘most wanted’ creativeVariously described as an “architect, painter, novelist, communist and convicted fraudster”, Fernand Pouillon’s life was punctuated by abrupt reversals of fortune that might have sprung from the pages of Dickens or Dumas. Throughout an eventful career, he ricocheted from intoxicating success, to financial scandal, prison, exile and eventual rehabilitation.In 1985, when Pouillon was in his early 70s, he was awarded the Légion d’Honneur by President François Mitterrand. Yet just over 20 years earlier, Pouillon found himself in custody awaiting trial on charges of corruption. As a prolific architect-developer who had designed gargantuan housing schemes in France and Algeria, he was accused of funding irregularities and violating laws contrived to keep the processe...

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77 m. ago Woman asks Chat GPT whether she should go to A&E and doctors say it's a good job

A woman has shared how she turned to Chat GPT for medical advice after sustaining an injury, and was told by AI to go to A&E. Doctors confirmed it was a good job she listened

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84 m. ago Woman duped out of thousands by fake astronaut who was 'in need of oxygen'

According to police, the elderly Japanese woman met the scammer in July on social media, who said he was an astronaut.

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86 m. ago I thought my eye pain was from too much screen time... it was the first sign of a harrowing disease

Amanda Hahn, 29, from New York, thought starring at her computer all day at work was to blame when she developed pain in her eye.

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91 m. ago The goalkeeper defying xG models and a penalty king: Why Man United gambled on Senne Lammens’s raw talent

Manchester United have invested in the vast promise of a 23-year-old Belgian keeper, and there are hints of David de Gea about their new recruit

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99 m. ago Stephen King reimagines 'Hansel and Gretel' with Maurice Sendak's unpublished drawings

Stephen King has collaborated on a new project, a retelling of “Hansel and Gretel” using unpublished drawings by Maurice Sendak

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