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  • NewsBirmingham Live

    'Disturbing' BBC clip shows man nibbling young boy's ear at snooker as police investigate

    South Yorkshire Police have confirmed an investigation has been launched

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  • NewsAFP

    Pope meets women prisoners in Venice, first trip in months

    Pope Francis on Sunday visited a prison for women in Venice ahead of a mass in the watery city representing the 87-year-old pontiff's first trip outside Rome for seven months. The one-day trip to Venice will be closely watched amid concerns over the fragile health of Francis, who has toured the world extensively in his 11 years as pope but has not travelled since visiting the French city of Marseille in September.

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  • NewsAFP

    Bangladesh reopens schools despite heat alert

    Millions of students returned to their reopened schools across Bangladesh Sunday despite a lingering heatwave that prompted a nationwide classroom shutdown order last weekend.Around 32 million students were kept at home by the school shutdown, Save the Children said in a statement this week.

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  • NewsBirmingham Live

    Exact date five areas of the UK will be 'hotter than Menorca' as 24C heatwave hits in days

    The current rainy weather is set to subside and bring sun to some areas of the country within days

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  • NewsLancashire Live

    'We were trapped in the pub during Darwen bomb scare'

    Police officers ordered people to remain inside The Bridgewater after a grenade was found nearby

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  • NewsChronicle Live

    See police ramming Cramlington danger driver in Seaton Burn after he did 90mph in 30mph zone

    John Saddler, of Cramlington, was brought to a halt in Seaton Burn during his second police chase in just over a year

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  • NewsFrance 24

    Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein hospitalised after court overturns one of his convictions

    Disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized on Saturday upon his return to New York after the city’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction on sex crime charges. The 4-3 decision was a shock reversal of one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement, but Weinstein will remain jailed on a separate 16-year rape sentence handed down in California.“The NYC Department of Corrections determined that Mr Weinstein needed immediate medical attention,” his lawyer Arthur L Aid

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