Yahoo News Pope Francis set to make London-born teenager, who died aged 15, first millennial saint
The Vatican has approved canonisation of Carlo Acutis, whose spreading of teachings of the Catholic church online led to him being called ‘God's influencer’
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Manchester Evening NewsDWP urged to address benefit 'crisis' as Martin Lewis labels system 'perverse'
The DWP has pledged to 'get to the bottom of' an issue that has seen carers forced to pay back thousands in benefits
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Hotel manager charged in Liam Payne's death
The hotel manager and receptionist where Liam Payne died have been charged in connection with the star's death. New documents obtained by Page Six show the employees at the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be charged. As yet it's unclear what they are being accused of. The documents name receptionist manager Esteban Reynaldo Grassi, who called 911 moments before the former One Direction star fell to his death, as being involved in the singer's demise. Gilda Agustina Martín,
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Nigel Farage Loses His Cool With Beth Rigby Over Reform MP's Assault Conviction
The Reform UK leader insisted James McMurdock's conviction was now "irrelevant".
- Lancashire Telegraph
Police stop car that was travelling too fast and make surprising discovery
Police make surprising discovery after stopping car that was travelling too fast
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Man who jumped a desk to attack a Nevada judge in the courtroom is sentenced
A man who was captured on video attacking a judge in a Las Vegas courtroom after vaulting over her bench and desk has been sentenced to decades in prison.
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Monk abused children for decades on Welsh island ‘in plain sight’, review says
Thaddeus Kotik groomed, raped and sexually assaulted boys and girls on Caldey Island despite repeated complaints
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Police arrest 93 members of shoplifting gangs behind £4million retail thefts
Operation Pegasus has ‘impacted 28 organised crime groups and high-harm individuals’ responsible for more than £4million in losses to businesses, police say
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The benefits that will be frozen in 2025
Three key benefits will not increase in the financial year ahead.
- The Daily Beast
Marjorie Taylor Greene Russian Pipe Bomb Hoax Kills Innocent Woman
A woman is dead after police in Georgia received an email from a Russian IP address claiming the sender had left a pipe bomb in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s mailbox. A police officer with the bomb squad who was driving to meet his colleagues at headquarters hit another car, killing its driver, the Rome Police Department said in a press release. “I’m heartsick right now,” Greene wrote in a post on X.
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The moment man launches brutal unprovoked attack outside bar
The moment man launches brutal unprovoked attack outside bar
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Horrifying moment worker sent flying through the air by huge gas explosion... and survives
Elliot Kirk had been building a fence on a farm when he was blown off his feet by the force of the blast
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Syrian activist whose suffering became symbol of Assad brutality found dead in Sednaya prison
Mazen al-Hamada had escaped to tell the world about regime’s torture before returning to Damascus
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All hail Rayner, destroyer of NIMBYs
Since Christmas is a time for hope, it’s worth appreciating the good news when we see it. The business community’s frustrations with Labour are well documented and easy to understand, but even its fiercest critics tend to concede that one area stands out as a bright spot in an economic landscape marred by tax increases:
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Who Is Luigi Mangione? What We Know About the Ivy League Grad Suspected of Shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Luigi Mangione was detained in a Pennsylvania McDonald's five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's death
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Polygamous sect leader gets 50 years in prison in scheme to orchestrate sex involving children
A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to kidnap them from protective custody. Samuel Bateman, whose small group was an offshoot of the sect once led by Warren Jeffs, had pleaded guilty to a yearslong scheme to transport girls across state lines for his sex crimes, and later to kidnap some of them from protective custody. Under the agreement, Bateman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit transportation of a minor for sexual activity, which carries a sentence of 10 years to life imprisonment, and one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, which is punishable by up to life imprisonment.
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‘They tortured me when I asked to see him’: Wife of jailed Syrian reveals truth of Assad’s slaughterhouse jail
As the brutality of the Assad regime falls away, Bel Trew finds families driven by desperation, grief and fury as they searched for their lost loved ones
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WATCH as panicked drug dealer throws £30k stash in bushes while 'out for a walk'
Aden Maynard threw £30,000 of drugs including almost 220 grams of cocaine in a bush.
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Sara Sharif ‘was doing her best to be a child’ – while suffering years of abuse
‘Heartbreaking’ video showed 10-year-old dancing with visible injuries two days before her father murdered her
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Ex-BBC journalist jailed for child sex abuse offences
A former BBC journalist has been jailed for eight years for child sexual abuse offences.
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How Was Night Stalker Richard Ramirez Caught? All About the Angry Mob That Captured the Serial Killer in 1985
After he failed to steal a car, four men beat and held down serial killer Richard Ramirez until police arrived