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A woman and her two children have been found murdered at a £1.3 million luxury home in Great Denham, near Bedford, and police are hunting the property's owner, who has fled the UK. Officers forced entry to the four-bedroom, four-bathroom detached house on Monday after concerns were raised…
The knockout stage of the 2026 World Cup has come to be dominated by European sides, with six of the eight quarter-finalists — Belgium, England, France, Norway, Spain and Switzerland — drawn from the continent. Norway's progress helped tip the balance in Europe's favour, producing the strongest European…
Australia's largest telecommunications provider, Telstra, experienced a major nationwide outage that disrupted phone and internet services across the country. Infrastructure failures at data centres in Sydney and Melbour
A scheduled British Airways service from Barbados to London was cancelled following an incident in which flight crew members consumed significant quantities of alcohol at a luxury resort accommodation the night before th
Elton John has announced two surprise concerts in Mexico City that will finally bring his mammoth "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour to a close, three years after it was thought to have ended. The tour was originally due to conclude in 2021 but was extended into 2023 after…
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New details have emerged in the Ohio "House of Horrors" case, in which 16 children were found living in squalid conditions at a home in Hamden, Ohio, leading to the arrest of four members of the Siders family on child endangerment charges. The case matters because authorities have…
Egypt manager Hossam Hassan has accused FIFA of rigging the 2026 World Cup, claiming the governing body wanted Lionel Messi to remain in the tournament, after a series of contentious refereeing and VAR decisions went against his side during Argentina's late comeback in Atlanta on Tuesday. The outburst…
Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady has spoken publicly about the nationwide outage that knocked out phone, mobile data and card-payment services for millions of Australians, adding detail to a story that had been dominated by questions over absent leadership. The renewed scrutiny of how both Telstra and the…
Australian communications minister Anika Wells cut short her annual leave and held an emergency press conference after being criticised for staying silent during a major Telstra network outage. The failure disrupted phone and internet services across the country, knocked out EFTPOS systems and forced some businesses to close,…