All news by author: Ryan Fahey

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Notorious drug lord's niece killed after car she was driving ploughed into tree
Keana Mokbel, 25, whose uncle Tony Mokbel is serving 30 years on drugs charges, died when her vehicle ploughed into a tree in Heidelberg West, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia at around 8.50pm on Sunday
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Woman who believes she's Madeleine McCann breaks silence as 'police seize phone'
The Orange County Sheriff's Department in California has contacted police in Wroclaw, Poland's largest city after obtaining a device which has been said to belong to 21-year-old Julia Wendell
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British man buys a drink in Moroccan bar - now he's been jailed for 10 years
Oliver Andrew's solicitor, in Morocco, said he had been charged in Marrakech with possessing and distributing counterfeit money within the country, and one count of creating an organised criminal group
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Woman, 20, shot dead after pulling into wrong driveway looking for pal's house
Kaylin Gillis, 20, was gunned down when she got out of a car in front of a property in the rural town of Hebron in New York State, with the people she was riding with rushing her to a nearby town before calling 911 due to limited cell service
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Three women found with throats slit on beach trip 'weren't linked to cartel'
Model Nayeli Tapia, 22, singer Yuliana Macias, 21, and student Denisse Reyna, 19, were found in the bottom of a shallow burial pit on the banks of a river near Quininde, Ecuador, by local fishermen in early April
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Brit cyclist killed in Spain road crash after being left by rogue driver
A British cyclist has been killed in a hit-and-run in Spain. The man died as a result of the injuries after he was knocked off his bike near Almeria in the southeast of the country
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Brit collapses and dies after downing 22 shots in just 90 minutes at nightclub
The 36-year-old Brit was plied with 22 powerful shots in just 90 minutes before collapsing at the Wild Night strip club in Krakow, Poland, where he was then fleeced of £420
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Woman's decomposing body found stuffed in suitcase at bus stop in mystery find
The body of a woman, thought to be around 25-years-old, was found in an advanced stage of decomposition and covered in maggots inside a suitcase at a bus stop in Kulai, Johor, southern Malaysia
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Couple decapitate each other with guillotine made at home in ritual sacrifice
Farmer Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife Hansaben, 35, cut off their own heads with a "guillotine-like" contraption before their heads rolled into a ritual fire pit as a human sacrifice to a Hindu god in Rajkot, India
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Air France not guilty of manslaughter of 228 on jet which crashed into Atlantic
Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean
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Bungling pilots blamed for Air France plane crashing into sea killing 228 people
Cedric Bonin, 32, referred to as an Air France "company baby" due to his junior positions, was the least experienced of the three pilots, but was forced to fly the enormous Airbus 330 through a tropical storm producing crashing thunderstorms
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Brit who survived two poisonings jailed for 25 years for criticising Putin
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a dual British-Russian citizen who has survived two attempted poisonings which he blamed on the Kremlin, was charged with treason for making a speech to the Arizona House of Representatives in which he denounced the war in Ukraine
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Chilling last words of Air France pilot before jet crashed into sea killing 228
Five British nationals and three Irish doctors were among the 228 passengers killed after the doomed Flight 447, an Airbus 330 that was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean
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Terrifying moment tourist bitten by 16st shark during Maldives snorkelling trip
Ibrahim Shafeeg, 37, from the Maldives, recorded his friend Carmen Canovas Cervello, 30, who works as a nurse, when she was bitten by a 200lb nurse shark while diving off the Vaavu Atoll
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Jupiter rocket to search for life on moons blasts off in vital space mission
The six-tonne probe, named Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), has blasted off on Thursday to the solar system's biggest planet to see if its ocean-bearing moons support life
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Dog meat chefs set for biggest pooch slaughter festival in years after lockdown
Dog meat chefs in China's Guangxi province are preparing for the first big Yulin Dog Meat Festival in years after China's notoriously stringent Covid lockdown measures have been lifted
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Boy, 5, torn apart by two killer pit bulls while he was walking back to his home
The five-year-old lad was returning home after spending a night at his grandma's in the South African village of Dyamala when two ferocious pit bulls attacked him and tore him apart
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Vladimir Putin receiving chemotherapy for cancer, leaked US documents confirm
Highly sensitive information about Ukraine, South Korea, Israel and the UAE collected by the US through communications monitoring was leaked last week in a major security breach
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Woman who claimed she was Madeleine McCann apologises to missing girl's parents
Julia Wendell, 21, sent the internet into a frenzy after creating an Instagram account called "@IamMadeleineMcCann" where she questioned whether she could be Madeleine
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Bible chapter written 1,500 years ago finally rediscovered after going missing
The verses were erased from the Gospel of Matthew by a scribe in Palestine back in the 3rd Century, around the time the text was written, which was a common practice in the day due to the scarcity of manuscripts
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Toddler savagely mauled by three dogs as child suffers 'significant' injuries
Emergency services were called to a property in Yatala on Australia's Gold Coast around 5.20pm on Wednesday after receiving reports of a dog attacking a toddler
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Woman, 19, facing execution by firing squad gives explanation for drugs in bag
The trial of Brazilian national Manuela Vitoria de Araujo Farias, 19, has begun after she was charged with international drug trafficking in Indonesia - where prosecutors are pushing for the maximum sentence under the country's tough anti-drug laws
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Gunman's family break silence after he massacred five colleagues at bank
In a few short minutes, disgruntled employee Connor Sturgeon took the lives of five of his colleagues at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, as his co-workers gathered for a morning meeting
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Grieving children 'paralysed by pain' after Brit sisters and mum shot dead
Karen Dee said "my heart is already so full of pain, I am paralysed by all the pain" and that "to lose your mother is like losing your life" as she spoke in front of hundreds who had gathered for her funeral in an Israeli settler town in the West Bank
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Virgin Mary statue appears to shed tears during church service in Easter miracle
A statue called the Our Lady of Sorrows at a Roman Catholic church in Ecuador was filmed "weeping" during a service on Good Friday - leaving churchgoers stunned