Germany heads to the polls for the fourth snap election in its history

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A man has urged two thieves who stole his credit card and used it to buy a winning scratch card to come forward – and rather than turn them in, he claims he'll split the jackpot

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A huge fire has broken out at a battery recycling facility, with locals reporting seeing 'explosions' and a black cloud of smoke gushing into the air.

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Election is likely to end with no clear winner with tricky coalition talks

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For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokeratiWas it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the hand of Trump: “I saw the moment the world’s wokerati had worked so hard to prevent.”I hope Johnson is pleased with the way things have worked out. Because now the foolish wokerati have been schooled beyond Johnson’s wettest dreams. It’s the Trump-Putin-bin Salman party! An adjudicated sex offender and convicted fraudster, and a man who sanctioned a chemical warfare hit, killing a British citizen on British soil, have met at the luxury Saudia Arabian hotel of another man, ...

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Ford is one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world, and almost everyone can pick out its distinctive logo - but there's an odd detail that some people are only just noticing

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Krystena Murray, 38, was implanted with the wrong embryo.

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Talent Gono, 34, was stabbed repeatedly in the head and chest while his pregnany wife Lilian, 33, watched on in horror - with the ordeal so horrifying that it triggered her labour, giving birth beside her dead partner in Cape Town, South Africa

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Pope Francis, 88, suffered a prolonged and critical asthmatic respiratory incident on Saturday morning after spending several days in a Rome hospital being treated for pneumonia and a complex lung infection

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Tyree Smith told his cousin that he ate part of alleged victim Angel Gonzalez’s brain and an eyeball

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The leader of the Catholic church is in a critical condition in hospital after his suffering a respiratory crisis.

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched investigations into fatal crashes involving Tesla cars,

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Conservative leader Friedrich Merz, 69, leads the race to become chancellor

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‘Fighting with arms and legs is something anyone can do. Fighting without them — that’s a challenge’

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The P&O Iona has been struck by a suspected norovirus outbreak.

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Germany heads to the polls for the fourth snap election in its history

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One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered his release was his mother’s grave

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The star of Baywatch and The Last Showgirl answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Stella McCartney, Liam Neeson, Ruby Wax and Naomi KleinPamela Anderson, makeup-free and beautiful in a floral Westwood suit, is making a fuss of my dog. My dog likes her. I’m not a particular believer in the idea that animals are great character judges but, in this case, me and the dog are aligned. I like Anderson too. She combines openness with a kind of vulnerability, and you warm to her immediately.Settled on a sofa in a small dressing room off a photography studio, she asks for a coffee and promptly spills it everywhere. “I strive for imperfection,” she jokes. “I strive for it, and I just hit it every time.” Cortado mopped, she takes a breath, before talking excitedly of a new phase in her eventful life. “A door opened, and I walked through,” she says. “It’s hard to believe.” Continue reading...

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Mapping experts have announced that rescue teams might be looking in the wrong place during the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 more than a decade after the aircraft went down

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Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for more than a week, rested 'peacefully overnight' although the Vatican update on Sunday morning did not confirm if he was sitting up or eating breakfast as previous days' had done

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