Five people have died on the streets of Belfast since charity the Welcome Organisation was forced to close its headquarters after an arson attack. A car was rammed into the shutters of the Welcome Organisation's Townsend Street centre on 23 July before being set on fire. Threatening graffiti was then...

Five people die on streets of Belfast within a week

Four people have been arrested after what is believed to be monkey dust was uncovered during raids. Three females and one male remain in custody after West Mercia Police carried out two raids on properties in Telford. Officers targeted properties in Ketley Park Road, Ketley and Wilkinson Close, Snedshill, where...

Four arrested in raids targeting monkey dust

The United Kingdom was left shaken after two children were stabbed to death and nine others were injured in a knife attack in Southport, in one of the worst assaults against children in the country in decades.

A third girl has died in the UK after one of the worst attacks on children in decades. Here’s what to know

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A WOMAN has shared a room tour of the annexe she lives in after falling pregnant at university. Bethany, from the UK, revealed she moved into her mum’s annexe with her partner and baby to be close to her family while they sorted out their own housing. In the clip, the mum took viewers around […]

I got pregnant at uni, now I pay rent to live in my mum’s annexe with my partner & baby – our whole life’s in that room

Police urge the public to stop circulating the video and remain calm as they investigate.

Video of alleged gang-rape sparks uproar in Tanzania

A tribunal determines Dr Marc Whitehouse's fitness to practise to be impaired.

False prescriptions doctor's licence suspended

Mental healthcare failings have been identified at two prisons following the death of an inmate who took his own life. Staff at HMP Gartree, near Market Harborough in Leicestershire, found Shaine Tester unresponsive in his cell on 1 November 2022. A report by the Prison and Probation Ombudsman said the...

Failings at two prisons found after inmate's death

The University of Hull is consulting over whether to close its chemistry department. The university said it had struggled to recruit students to chemistry courses, and said many of the programmes were now "no longer financially or educationally viable". The university said it had experienced difficulties in recruiting both UK...

University's chemistry department is under threat

Kamala Harris's vice-presidential pick Tim Walz has drawn attention halfway across the world in China. Chinese social media users have been discussing how Mr Walz spent a year teaching in the south-eastern province of Guangdong in 1989 - a topic that was trending on Weibo with 12 million views. He...

'Harris's no 2 taught in China': Chinese internet reacts to Walz

This year's festival in Scarborough is no longer going ahead, organisers have announced.

Music festival cancelled due to low ticket sales

A trustee of the Belfast Multi-Cultural Association (BMCA) has said "the majority of the community" feel unsafe and haven't left their homes "for weeks". "My own family haven’t left the house for a week now, this is what the situation is," Muhammad Atif told BBC News NI. "My wife...

'My kids haven't left the house in a week'

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Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

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Yeovil Hospital is able to scan patients much quicker due to a new CT scanner.

Hospital gets new CT scanner to cut treatment time

A plane has crashed in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, killing all 61 people on board. The twin-engine turboprop was flying from Cascavel in the southern state of Paraná to Guarulhos airport in São Paulo city when it came down in the town of Vinhedo, Voepass airline says.

Plane crash in Brazil's São Paulo state kills all 61 on board

'Vibrant' Shelby Smith died in a crash between Tetbury and Malmesbury on 31 July.

Crash victim was 'full of love and laughter'

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

The discovery was made by contractors renovating a property in County Durham on Tuesday.

Baby skeleton 'undisturbed' for years, say police

A family has paid tribute to a man who died in a car accident near Totnes. Dylan Walker, 26, from Harbertonford, was pronounced dead at the scene of a two-vehicle crash on a country road near Washbourne on 8 July, police said. Members of Mr Walker's family said his death...

Tributes paid to 'amazing' man killed in crash

Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev won Olympic gold in the Rhythmic Gymnastics individual all-around final.Varfolomeev topped the rotations in hoop (36.300), ball (36.500) and clubs (36.350) and came second in the ribbon (33.700) to score a total 142.850 points.Bulgaria’s Boryana Kaleyn won the silver with 140.600 points and Italy's 2023 World Championships silver medallist Sofia Raffaeli took the bronze medal with 136.300 points.Having made her senior debut in 2022, Varfolomeev earned her first world title in the clubs before becoming the youngest gymnast to achieve the feat of a clean sweep of four apparatus finals and the all-around title at the 2023 World Championships.

Germany’s Darja Varfolomeev wins Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics individual all-round gold

Previous Home Office plans would have seen the hotel used by migrants

Hotel could be used to house homeless people

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'When I found out I got a first I was so shocked'

Top degree grades are awarded to about three in every 10 students at Northern Ireland's universities, new figures show. The proportion of students achieving first-class degrees...

'When I found out I got a first I was so shocked'

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