4 h. ago Urgent warning to iPhone users over dodgy charging adapters that can cause fatal electric shocks or house fires

Experts have issued an urgent warning to iPhone users after finding dangerous fake charging adaptors littering the market.

Events

12 h. ago Man 'electrocuted by girlfriend for three hours rushed for emergency surgery'

The woman got the idea of electrocuting her boyfriend for hours on end from her relatives, who told her it would be a good for him to experience a child birth simulation before they married

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12 h. ago Brits alerted as Amazon light that poses 'serious risk of electric shock' recalled

The light was rejected at the UK border, preventing the potentially dangerous products from reaching households

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16 h. ago Woman 'gives boyfriend electric shocks to his stomach for three hours so he can feel the pain of childbirth

The woman said her boyfriend 'kept shouting and struggling from level 8' and started cursing and crying before breathing violently breathing violently and sweating all over at level 12.

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44 h. ago The shocking reasons one gender always regrets divorce more: TRACEY COX talks to men and women to find out how they felt after leaving their marriage

Around a third of divorced couples in the UK regret their decision to end their marriage - but do both partners feel the pain equally? TRACEY COX explains why men may suffer more than women.

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45 h. ago ITV A Cruel Love star Lucy Boynton reveals huge challenge playing last woman to be hanged

Lucy Boynton stars in ITV's true crime drama A Cruel Love as Ruth Ellis, who shot her boyfriend dead in 1955 and became the last woman in the UK to be hanged for her crime

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60 h. ago 'Perfect boyfriend' turned 'disturbing' as he smelled woman to check if she'd cheated

Ryan Summersgill pushed and spat at his girlfriend leaving her feeling 'dirty and scared'.

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61 h. ago Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving

For the next few weeks we’re asking readers to nominate their invertebrate of the year: click here to give us your suggestionsDoes a worm feel pain if it gets trodden on? Does a fly ache when its wings are pulled off? Is an ant happy when it finds a food source? If so, they may be sentient beings, which means they can “feel”, a bit or a lot, like we do.Invertebrate sentience is becoming an ever livelier topic of debate and with new science we are getting new insights. But Dr Andrew Crump at the Royal Veterinary College, who helped ensure that new UK laws recognising animal sentience were amended to include large cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans – octopuses, lobsters, crabs to you and me – says this is not at all straightforward. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Beatings, torture and electric shocks: freed scam compound workers allege horrific abuse

Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs in Southeast Asia, thousands instead allegedly end up enslaved in jail-like compounds and forced to carry out online scams“The Chinese would shock me with electric probes almost daily. I endured this continuously for nine months,” claims Seye, a 27-year-old woman who is one of hundreds of alleged trafficking victims who streamed across the Thai-Myanmar border this month.Seye was among 260 people, more than half of them Ethiopian, who were transferred across the border to Thailand this February by a rebel group. Several among the group agreed to be interviewed on the condition they use only their first name. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago I was raped and tortured by pervert 'who chained up and tortured woman for three months'

The 22-year-old woman said she was raped, beaten and had her nipples forcibly pierced by Karel N., 40, in the cellar of a house in Kryry, Louny, in the northwest of the Czech Republic in 2021.

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5 d. ago Arsenal ‘deserve’ to feel pain as West Ham deal huge title race blow

Arsenal’s hopes of catching Liverpool were dealt a huge blow as West Ham won 1-0 at the Emirates

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5 d. ago Toxic Town: Jodie Whittaker is absolutely flawless as she battles real

The hasty regeneration of Corby’s old steelworks poisoned a generation. Now the story of how it came to court is told in a harrowing, if slightly melodramatic, new Netflix seriesJack Thorne writes the kind of meaningful, worthwhile dramas that you definitely – no, honestly – do plan to watch but just maybe not tonight. Best Interests from 2023, about a distraught mother battling the NHS doctors who decide to allow her severely ill teenage daughter to die, was warm, miraculously funny, and as gripping as a thriller. It was also so traumatising that it could make the viewer feel as if they were in actual physical pain. Before that, there was The Accident, whose matter-of-fact title only hinted at the harrowing subject matter: the series covered the aftermath of a construction site explosion in Wales that killed eight children.Toxic Town (Thursday 27 February, Netflix) – Thorne’s new four-part series – could be considered a companion piece to The Accident: it also deals with a dea...

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6 d. ago Mum banned from brushing teeth during cruel abuse campaign by boyfriend

Hannah Mellor lived through every woman's worst nightmare when her previously "lovely" new boyfriend began to show signs of controlling behaviour.

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6 d. ago Woman facing deportation after stealing $850,000 worth of TrumpCoin from ex

‘We don’t care about her in the end what happens to her. We just want the money’, said the victim’s private investigator

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6 d. ago Boyfriend of woman fatally shot after gunman stormed her home is jailed

Ashley Dale's boyfriend Lee Harrison has been jailed for five years

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7 d. ago Holly Willoughby mortified as her first boyfriend reveals 'naked woman' note she sent

Former This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby’s past came back to haunt her when she was reunited with her first love in front of a live audience and he brought with him a personal letter she wrote

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