9 h. ago Shark attack horror at Australia holiday hotspot as tourist airlifted to hospital after bite

A swimmer at the Tangalooma Wrecks off Moreton Island, in Queensland, Australia, was rushed to hospital with abdominal and leg injuries when he was bitten by a shark

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22 h. ago One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence

This powerful new book examines the moral contradictions of the west and asks what liberal values mean in the face of such brutal and sustained obliteration of human lifeLike many people, I have followed the unrelenting horror that has unfolded in Gaza since the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 mainly through the medium of social media. The Instagram reels of citizen journalists on the ground have become for me and countless others the most powerful testimony to the slaughter, destruction and trauma visited on the already beleaguered Palestinian population. Recorded at great risk, they are often heartbreaking and enraging: so many dead infants; so many maimed and traumatised children; so many obliterated families and communities.Some of these witnesses have achieved heroic status among their millions of followers, the likes of Motaz Azaiza, a photojournalist who was evacuated to Qatar after 108 days covering the carnage at close hand; Wael Al-Dahdouh, the Al Jazeer...

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23 h. ago I saw the devastation of homes burned and a school destroyed in Gaza

When the news of the October 7 attacks broke, I could never have imagined the devastating consequences of that Hamas attack and the subsequent war, and the horror that continues to unfold in the region.

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67 h. ago One person taken to hospital after A470 accident near Brecon

Police were asked people to avoid the main road that is shut from Brecon to Felinfach for several hours

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3 d. ago College professor accused of raping women he met on Tinder — and cops say there may be more victims

Finnell has been placed on administrative leave from Lee College, where he teaches accounting, in response to the investigation

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3 d. ago Manhunt launched after woman 'raped' in the early hours of the morning at busy junction in Liverpool

Merseyside Police has launched an appeal for anyone who was around the junction of Vauxhall Road and Leeds Street between 12:15am and 12:45am on Thursday to get in touch.

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3 d. ago Liverpool attack: Woman raped next to main road in city centre as police cordon off area

Merseyside Police has launched an investigation following a report that a woman was assaulted near a busy junction in Liverpool city centre during the early hours of Thursday

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3 d. ago Woman raped next to main road in horror attack with area taped off

Police are appealing for anyone in the area at the time to urgently come forward

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3 d. ago Man who raped woman as she slept found guilty five years after attack

The man denied all the allegations but was convicted at the Old Bailey on Wednesday

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4 d. ago Woman dragged off street at knifepoint and raped by sex offender slams 'soft touch' justice system

Vicky Maclean was raped by John McDougall in a horrific sex attack in 2000 and has slammed Scotland's justice system after he went on to reoffend multiple times

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4 d. ago Horror as boy fighting for his life after terrifying Piccadilly Gardens attack

Blake Speirs had been out with friends in Manchester when a group of older children approached them

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5 d. ago Woman dragged off street at knife point and raped by dangerous sex offender slams “soft touch” justice system'

She said: “I was convinced I would die. It’s still very vivid." she revealed decades after the attack.

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5 d. ago Mum's horror as family dog 'saw red' and launched brutal attack

Emma Dean, 25, had been staying at her mother and father-in-law's house with her three children aged nine, seven, and four when the family dog, Bruno, 'saw red' and attacked them

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5 d. ago Mum recalls dog attack horror as family pet 'wouldn't stop until someone was dead'

Emma Dean, 25, told how she had to rescue her kids after the family dog Bruno 'saw red' and suddenly began attacking them - and 'wasn’t stopping until someone was dead'

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5 d. ago Woman said 'get the s**thouses out' as she led horror gang attack on mum

Bethany White, from Liverpool, helped pull her the victim aisde so four male friends could storm the mum-of-two's property as one of the gang shouted at the mum: ''I will break your neck"

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6 d. ago Sick way rapist who brutally murdered backpacker tried to get away with it for 8 years

Vikat Bhagat was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday, February 17 for the rape and murder of Donegal woman Danielle McLaughlin in Goa, India following an eight-year murder trial

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6 d. ago LIVE updates as main road blocked after rush hour crash in Ilford

LIVE updates as main road blocked after rush hour crash in Ilford  This is Local London

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