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Pop Idol star Darius Danesh leaves six-figure fortune after tragic death
Singer Darius Campbell Danesh left a six-figure fortune after his tragic death, it has emerged.
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UK seeks access to Apple users’ encrypted data
Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance.
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Despite a record audience, Netflix raises subscription prices in the UK
Analysts warn streaming service needs to tread carefully as its standard subscription rate goes up by 18%.
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Suspected industrial dye leak turns river near Buenos Aires bright red
Residents living near the Sarandí have long complained about pollution in the area.
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Sweden aims to strengthen gun laws following the Örebro mass shooting
‘We have to ensure that only the right people have guns in Sweden,’ says the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson.
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Former police officer was found not guilty after causing two men to fall off an e-bike by “nudging” it
A retired police officer has been cleared by a jury for knocking two people off an electric motorbike in order to "protect life".
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Russian national arrested in the Netherlands for espionage on chip manufacturers
A former employee of ASML and NXP, who has been in custody for several months on suspicion of stealing corporate secrets, maintained contact with Russian intelligence.
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Palace for 45 million euros was found in the family of Hungarian Prime Minister Orban
As it turned out, the Hungarian Prime Minister lives in an ancient castle from the Austro-Hungarian era, registered in his father’s name.
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Sources say Trump administration to retain only 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 worldwide
President Donald Trump’s administration plans to keep fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development out of the agency’s worldwide total of more than 10,000, four sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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New Syrian defense minister states Russia may retain its military bases in the country
In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to build new alliances.
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Couple found brutally executed hours after being kidnapped by fake cops
Alex Bruno Silva dos Santos, 28, and Maria Leticia Sousa da Silva, 26, were kidnapped from their home in Brazil by four men dressed as police and later found murdered.
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Meghan Markle reveals surprising details of her life as a royal, from unwanted PDA to her nickname
During Meghan Markle’s time as a working royal, she crossed paths with dozens of servants and staff, but not everyone warmed to the modern-day duchess, a new book claims.
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Fears Brit couple were tortured to death as horror new details emerge of ’burglary gone wrong’
Investigators in charge of the shocking deaths of Dawn and Andrew Searle have set up a massive crime scene in Les Pesquiès, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in France.
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Coroner’s final ruling on the death of five-year-old Freddie Farrow, killed by falling mirror in shop
Freddie Farrow died of a traumatic brain injury when a "very large mirror" fell on him at a Fenwick department store in Colchester, Essex.
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Scout leader jailed was ’paedophile hiding in plain sight’ after abusing boys as young as 7
Paedophile former scout leader Ian Silvester has been jailed for 16 years after he was found to have abused boys as young as seven over the course of three decades.
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Second woman arrested for using wigs to fake UK citizenship tests; disguises and designer bags found in raid
A second woman, suspected of using wigs to disguise herself to sit the British citizenship test for other people, has been arrested.
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World’s first YMCA closes permanently after 180 years in central London
The world’s first YMCA will close its doors for the final time after a failed injunction and be sold to a ‘hotel chain’ in London after running for 180 years.
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£20 million drugs baron’s party ends with arrest at Ibiza’s Pacha
A baby-faced drugs baron and his glamourous ‘gangster’s moll’ are facing years behind bars.
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Fire erupts in London Underground tunnel
A fire broken out in a northbound tunnel near Waterloo Underground station in London.
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Halifax reports UK house prices reach new high as stamp duty increase approaches
Average property price increases by 0.7% in January to record £299,138 as market starts year ‘on positive note’.
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Government confirms Grenfell Tower will be demolished over a two-year period
Grenfell Tower will be torn down despite victims’ families begging them to ‘keep the shrine of their loved ones’.
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Four-year-old in critical condition after being hit by a car in east London
A four-year-old child is in a critical condition after being struck by a car in east London.
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Parents of UK teens sue TikTok over alleged challenge-related deaths
TikTok is being sued by the parents of four British teenagers who believe their children died after taking part in viral trends that circulated on the video-sharing platform in 2022.
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In 2019, planners advised against a nuclear plant due to concerns over the Welsh language
Industry figures say fate of Anglesey facility to have been built by Hitachi shows problems with planning system.
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Two killed after plane collides with vehicles on busy road in Sao Paulo
Two people have died after a plane crashed into vehicles on a busy road in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.