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Storm Emma batters Britain: Paramedics attacked while families are told to evacuate

Forecasters warn there is more danger to come from Storm Emma and The Beast from the East as blizzards batter the UK.

Mar 3, 2018

By James Hetherington

Blizzard Storm

Premiership stars bullied in gay relationship jibe

Two first team stars are being bullied with gay jibes and the club have held an emergency 'clear the air'.

Mar 3, 2018

By Simon Rushton

Premier League

International Wildlife Day 2018 aims to create awareness to keep the 'Big Cats' away from extinction

On 20 December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 3 March of every year as the International Wildlife Day.

Mar 3, 2018

By Karen Noronha

Frustrated passengers walk on tracks after 3 hours on stranded Southeastern train in Lewisham

A train was held at Lewisham for three hours due to frozen tracks. Frustrated passengers fled the train through the emergency exits and walked along the tracks.

Mar 2, 2018

By Priya Joshi

Manhunt launched for teen who shot police officer and his wife dead at Central Michigan Univeristy

Bellwood Police Officer James Davis Sr and his wife were shot dead during a domestic incident at Central Michigan University.

Mar 2, 2018

By Priya Joshi

Lloyd Gunton, 17, sentenced to life for Isis inspired terror plot in Cardiff

Teenager Lloyd Gunton had planned an attack in Cardiff city centre and a Justin Bieber concert on June 30, 2017. Police arrested him just hours before he planned to carry out the attack.

Mar 2, 2018

By Priya Joshi

Isis

Police discover 322 cannabis plants in house in Keighley after spotting roof with no snow

West Yorkshire police found a cannabis farm in a house in Keighley after noticing there was no snow on the roof. They found 322 cannabis plants growing under heated lights.

Mar 2, 2018

By Priya Joshi

Doctors perform brain surgery on wrong patient

Doctors took hours to discover the patient they were performing brain surgery on was actually the wrong person.

Mar 2, 2018

By James Hetherington

Kenya

Burmese python devours entire deer to amazement of Florida's snake researchers

Researchers say the snake's prey was 110% of its body mass, making it the species highest ever predator to prey ratio.

Mar 2, 2018

By Neil Murphy

Florida Conservation

Egypt free speech crackdown: Mother arrested after telling BBC 'police made my daughter disappear'

Egyptian Mona Mahmoud arrested after accusing police of torturing and disappearing daughter Zubeida in BBC report. Amnesty says arrest is latest in Egypt's free speech crackdown.

Mar 2, 2018

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Egypt

'Calmest guy in the world' slices friend's throat with meat cleaver and smashes marijuana bong over his head

A 38-year-old kung fu instructor from Wallasey, near Liverpool, sentenced to 12 years in jail for attempting to murder his housemate.

Mar 2, 2018

By James Hetherington

United Kingdom

Stunning photos of Buddhists celebrating Makha Bucha as they light up a temples in Thailand

Buddhists celebrated Makha Bucha Day at a temple in Thailand.

Mar 2, 2018

By Ruchira Sharma

Thailand

Two diamond dealers were attacked with tear gas at a Paris Metro station

Diamond dealers robbed of briefcase containing €300,000 in gems in tear gas attack at Paris Metro

The dealers, both from India, were caught up in the Hollywood-style heist as they were about to pass through the turnstiles at Cadet Metro station in the 9th arrondissement in the French capital.

Mar 2, 2018

By Roger Baird

Teen girl left horrified after finding testicles in Asda extra tasty roast chicken she ate

The 14-year-old from Stockton-on-Tees initially thought it was maggots. The family later dined on McDonald's.

Mar 2, 2018

By Lucia Binding

Boy, 14, charged with murder after teenager stabbed to death in east London

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of another teenager on Valentine's Day in Canning Town, east London.

Mar 2, 2018

By Roger Baird

'We're in Hell': Twitter reacts to Theresa May's Road to Brexit speech

Theresa set out her vision for Brexit, yet again, much to the irritation of some social media users.

Mar 2, 2018

By Neil Murphy

Theresa May

British man tried to murder Muslim woman by driving over her in vicious hate crime

21-year-old Paul Moore drove his Volkswagen into Hussein in Leicester, then ran her over as she lay on the ground. Hussein suffered fractures to her pelvis, her spine and leg.

Mar 2, 2018

By Staff Reporter

UK crime

Israel-Poland Holocaust argument: 1946 document says Poles treated Jews as badly as the Nazis

Declassified US State Department document from 1946 says Poles treated Jews as badly as the Nazis. This week Poland's controversial new Holocaust law came into effect.

Mar 2, 2018

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Israel Poland

Theresa May warns UK to prepare to face 'hard facts' about economic impact of Brexit

The U.K. is due to leave the EU in March 2019, but the two sides have yet to negotiate new arrangements for trade, security, aviation and a host of other fields.

Mar 2, 2018

By Associated Press

Brexit European Union

Mary Stewart Cerruti fell through a floorboard became wedged between two walls in her home and was not discovered for three years

Rats feasted on woman after she fell through attic and became trapped behind wall

New homeowners in Houston were shocked to find a skeleton in their new home - but the gruesome find solves the mystery of a lonely woman who went missing three years ago.

Mar 2, 2018

By Roger Baird

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