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Two children die in house fire in Wolverhampton

Two other children and a woman were already out of the house before emergency services arrived.

Seven dead in major Russian attack on Ukraine

The city of Dnipro was hardest hit, with officials saying four died in a strike on a residential building.

Relish and dread as Starmer 'shambles' hangs over Scotland and Wales elections

Laura Kuenssberg travels to Wales and Scotland to speak to candidates and voters ahead of May 7 polls.

Explosions and gunfire as armed groups launch coordinated attacks across Mali

Witnesses report clashes in the centre and north of the country in what has been described as the largest jihadist attack in years.

Palestinians in West Bank and some in Gaza vote in local elections

Local elections are held in the occupied West Bank and in one Gazan city, though Hamas and other groups are not taking part.

Gladiator Giant claims he was axed from BBC show over girlfriend's job

Jamie Bigg says he wanted to publicise his relationship and was told he "wouldn't be continuing" on the show.

Extradited teen in court over woman's murder

The London property manager, 27, who was also known as Angela, was stabbed in Westminster in 2024.

Terrorists launch simultaneous attacks in Mali, authorities say

Terrorists have carried out attacks in various locations across Mali, according to the country's army.

Tensions flare in heated I'm A Celebrity live final

Adam Thomas, Craig Charles, Mo Farah and Harry Redknapp were in the final of I'm A Celebrity... South Africa.

Murdered toddler James Bulger's family find items from vandalised grave

The grave of James Bulger, who was murdered in 1993, has been vandalised twice, his family says.

Two young children die in house fire

Two young children have died in a house fire in Wolverhampton.

Seven killed in Ukraine after major Russia drone attack, as RAF deploys Typhoon jets

Russia has launched a major drone attack overnight on Ukraine, killing seven people and injuring more ‌than 30 others, as RAF Typhoon fighter jets were deployed over Romania.

Religious scholar Russell Brand can’t find the Bible passages that he read in court, and Piers Morgan just leaves him hanging for an excruciating minute of dead air

We’re not saying that Russell Brand‘s late-in-the-day conversion to born again Christianity isn’t sincere – Heaven forfend! – but he sure did seem to struggle to find his favourite Bible passage when asked live on air by Piers Morgan. Brand, as you’ll be aware, is awaiting trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault, which […]

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Schoolchildren avert disaster after bus driver passes out behind the wheel

Children in Mississippi sprang into action to stop a packed school bus from crashing after the driver passed out.

'Dad had a gun under his pillow' to protect largest UK medieval coin hoard

The Fishpool Hoard - consisting of more than 1,200 coins - was uncovered more than 60 years ago.

Falklands veteran hopes King can speak to Trump over US 'review' of UK's sovereignty claim

Simon Weston says reports the US is reviewing the UK's claim to the territory makes his sacrifice feel "irrelevant".

'Very funny' statue of Monty Python's Terry Jones to be unveiled

Sir Michael Palin said his fellow Python star Jones would have found the statue "very funny indeed".

Princess of Wales lays wreath at The Cenotaph to mark Anzac Day

The Princess of Wales has laid a wreath at The Cenotaph to mark Anzac Day, which commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who died in conflict.

Man extradited from the UAE appears in London court charged with woman's murder

A man has been charged with the murder of a 27-year-old woman in London two years ago after being extradited from the United Arab Emirates.

31 sloths die in Florida before opening of attraction

Many died due to conditions at a Florida warehouse where they'd been shipped, while others arrived from South America dead, authorities say.

Why bookworms looking for a bestseller are turning to TikTok

The inaugural top 20 is entirely made up of female authors, with Chloe Walsh appearing most frequently.

Touring is a costly struggle for bands like us. Now Harry Styles is helping

Ticket money from some stadium and arena gigs is helping support struggling grassroots artists and venues.

'We cried together': Trump's deportation drive forces tough decisions for couples

The spouses of illegal immigrants facing deportation must choose between separation or moving to a new country.

Loud eaters, people on phones - the bad behaviour plaguing my cinema trip

Some people are being disruptive in cinemas - despite routine reminders to be considerate to others.

Katya Adler: Europe's Nato allies push back at reported US threat to Spain

On Friday morning, souring relations between Europe and the United States reared its Medusa-like head again, writes the BBC's Europe editor.

The King faces biggest test of his reign as he heads to visit Trump

The state visit to the US looks fraught with difficulty - but could be key to rescuing the special relationship.

Thousands at risk after multi-million dollar Everest flood warning system left to rust

The flood warning system at Imja glacial lake has not been maintained since 2016, fearful locals tell BBC.

Meet the men calling out 'masculinity' trends

Influencers promoting looksmaxxing and narrow male beauty standards are being called out by a new wave of men on social media.

'Shame on them': Post Office seeks delay in second Capture case at Court of Appeal

The Post Office is seeking to delay the second Capture scandal case at the Court of Appeal, Sky News has learned.

'Why am I teaching you? You're only going to be a block paver': How Travellers want change

Britain's community of Travellers and Gypsies say they are facing a fight for survival of their way of life.

'Killing in prison is not difficult' - the rise in cold-blooded attacks behind bars

Is a culture of prisoners intimidating inmates into inflicting pain on others too normalised to change?

Corrie legend forced to undergo chemo after doctors find 'aggressive' cancer cells

Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw has revealed she is battling breast cancer and must undergo five months of chemotherapy to treat aggressive cells

China car giant BYD says it can thrive without US

With the price of fuel rising China's BYD says it is positioning itself to benefit from the global shift away from fossil fuels.

Greggs launches 'theft-proof' stores as shoplifting thugs force bakery into total lockout

Greggs is launching "fortress" stores with bakery goods kept behind counters to stop shoplifters as retail crime figures across the UK reach their peak

James Bulger's mum shares update on grave after 'tip-off' as man, 78, arrested

James Bulger's mum Denise Fergus was left 'devastated' after vandals destroyed the grave of her son just weeks after it was repaired at Kirkdale Cemetery in Merseyside

Rob Reiner's son opens up on 'living nightmare' after brutal killing of his parents

The son of director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner has spoken about the "living nightmare" he has endured since his parents were brutally killed late last year.

Prison officer told inmate 'I'll make you scream' with sex toy in 'highly sexual' affair

Livvy Edney, 44, was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to misconduct in a public office for her affair with dangerous prisoner Paul Young at HMP Channings Wood – and declaring her love for him

Wendy Duffy 'didn’t tell her mum' about assisted dying plans at Swiss clinic

British woman Wendy Duffy, 56, did not want to tell her mum, who has dementia, about her plans to travel to the Pegasos clinic in Switzerland to end her life - family say the 87-year-old is still unaware

WWE icon Paige slams Spice Girl Emma Bunton over 'heartbreaking' childhood snub

WWE icon Paige once called out Spice Girl Emma Bunton over a "heartbreaking" childhood snub

Donald Trump has been explaining how maths works in his world and it’s 600% nuts

Math is objective. There is a right answer and a wrong answer. The right answer can be proven with a step-by-step outline of equations. So when Donald Trump gathered some sycophants to stand behind him while he broke down his latest drug price reductions, it stood to reason that he’d be able to explain his […]

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It appears that Donald Trump scheduled a press conference during his afternoon nap time again – 15 responses worth waking up for

Look, it makes sense. Work meetings suck. They’re boring, they’re pointless, they almost always can just be an e-mail. That being said, when work is “running America” and America is currently at war with at least two other countries, everyone there should probably be counted on to stay awake for the duration of said meeting. […]

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Donald Trump was asked when his war on Iran will be over and his answer was a glorious self-own for the history books

Donald Trump’s war with Iran has gone through more phases than a moody teenager trying to figure out what kind of music they like. Emo. Grunge. Hip-hop. Metal. It’s something new every week. And it rarely sticks. Same for the President. Who can’t seem to make up his mind about what exactly is happening in […]

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Jeremy Clarkson re-ignites planning battle at farm to extend ‘temp’ car park until 2030

The star faced a much-publicised battle with the council to resolve car parking woes at his Diddly Squat Farm as visitors flocked to the site due to the success of television series Clarkson’s Farm

Legendary Football Focus presenter blasts the BBC for ditching the iconic show

The ex-Arsenal goalie, who joined the Beeb to present footie for two decades, said it was “crazy” for Aunty to be axing such a loved programme

Self-service checkouts are leading “good, honest people” to shoplift, says supermarket boss

Marks & Spencer chairman Archie Norman said self-service technology needs to be “easier for people to use” to avoid rising rates of shoplifting

Donald Trump says he draws bigger crowds than Martin Luther King, Jr. and nobody in the room corrected him – but these 17 replies did

I have a dream. And in that dream, Donald Trump shuts the hell up for just one second so I can catch my breath. But until then, the big orange man keeps talking and what comes out is some of the most outrageous nonsense ever shared in front of a microphone. The President’s latest demented […]

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A petty influencer left a bad review because the restaurant wouldn’t give him a discount, and their response was A++

There’s certainly no shortage of influencers trying to get free or discounted stuff in exchange for that well-known currency – exposure. One of them, Antonio Malik, @antonio_eats_la, sent a message to Corner 17 in St. Louis, trying to get a $100 discount, and this is how that panned out. Not only did Corner 17’s owner, […]

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Somebody asked historians about their favourite piece of obscure UK history – 19 fascinating stories almost lost to the mists of time

The UK is a country with an enormously long history, which means that we end up mainly learning about the big hitting events, like the Battle of Hastings, the Industrial Revolution and World War II. But what about the more obscure but still fascinating things that have almost been forgotten? Over on the AskUK subreddit, […]

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Brit mum ends life in Swiss assisted dying clinic despite not being terminally ill

British woman Wendy Duffy, 56, flew to the Pegasos clinic in Switzerland to end her life following the tragic loss of her only son Marcus four years ago - she is without a terminal illness

Getting the bike out for the summer? Check out the hilarious ‘guy who decides cycling’ first

There’s nothing so mundane that the brilliant Jimmy Rees can’t tease out the absurdity of it to amazing comedic effect. In this edition of The Guy Who Decides, he becomes the spokesperson for cycling – and his own long-suffering assistant. “What happens on busy roads?” “Drivers of cars will lose their minds because they get […]

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UK mobile phone driving fines hit £14m as over 70,000 motorists caught out

More than 70,000 UK drivers have been issued fines for using their mobile phone behind the wheel over the past three years, with Greater Manchester Police issuing the most penalties

Nearly half of runners say their runs 'don't count' if they're not tracked

Research shows nearly half of runners admit they don't count a run if they haven't tracked it on a fitness device

People shared the British things that are totally normal to us but utterly baffling to visitors – 23 proper eye-openers

There’s no doubt that Britain is a unique place. From morris dancing to hun culture to places with names like Bishop’s Itchington, we have a wealth of weirdnesses to be proud of. However, to an outsider it can be understandably confusing, even the things that to us natives seem incredibly banal. Over on the AskUK […]

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This woman was relentlessly bothered by a creepy old classmate to the point where she had no choice but to go nuclear and it was just fabulous

We’ve featured no end of idiot men on these pages being given exactly the treatment they deserve, and this one is from the very top drawer. Except in this case, ‘idiot men’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. It’s someone called Tamira who went viral back in the day after they shared a long exchange […]

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People shared the best ‘Jay from Inbetweeners level brags’ they’ve ever heard – 21 times people beggared belief in hilarious style

We all like to exaggerate a little from time to time, talking up our achievements to make ourselves seem more impressive. However, some people take it so far into the realms of fantasy that it becomes embarrassing for everyone. Over on the AskUK subreddit, user Woody-Pieface asked ‘What is the best ‘Jay from Inbetweeners’ level […]

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Will another week of Starmer drama impact the elections?

We look at if the latest problems for the PM are impacting the campaign trail

A Maga was just brutally owned over the state of the UK right now and if this happened to us we wouldn’t leave the house for a week

Turns out Americans know Britain even less than we thought hey did. We don’t mean all Americans, obviously, just the Maga bit. And when we say the Maga bit, what we really mean is Chloe Trapanotto, a journalist for American conservative news website and much else besides Th Daily Wire. They were quizzed by journalist […]

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Our 25 Favourite Funny Tweets of the Week

Is it just us or do these Fridays seem to be coming around much faster these days? It seems like no more than a couple of days since we last spread our collection of favourite tweets before you, and here we are again – just a website, standing in front of a reader, asking them […]

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Someone asked for suggestions of what to put in the corner of their room, and the replies were just what social media was made for – 19 favourites

It can be tricky getting a home to look properly balanced and aesthetically pleasing, which is why rich people tend to pay someone else to do all that stuff for them – alongside finding ways they can avoid paying tax, apparently. We’re not even talking about feng shui, it’s just a question of it not […]

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A woman reporter asked Trump a question he didn’t like and his response was like a 30-second snapshot of his entire presidency

Donald Trump’s war on Iran isn’t going entirely to plan, as no-one anywhere needs reminding. We know this because he doesn’t appear to actually have a plan. Not only that, it’s already taking longer than Trump had promised the American people with basically no end in sight. Great work, Mr President! So it was only […]

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked who Trump should fire next and her A++ response had the entire internet applauding

To the United States – where else? – where Donald Trump’s administration stumbles from one crisis – invariably of its own making – to the next. It got people wondering who Trump is going to fire next – well, someone’s got to take the blame, right? – and it was a question put to our […]

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What’s the most unwritten rule of adult life that nobody warns you about? – 17 secrets about being a grown up everyone should know

Adulthood is a strange and capricious place. Even when you think you’ve got everything figured out, it can turn around and surprise you in the most puzzling ways. Deep down, most people know this. It can be infuriating though because nobody pre-warns you about these pitfalls. This prompted PracticeHistorical82 to give people a heads up […]

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Trump’s ‘You can’t compromise on sanity and common sense’ quote may be the least self-aware thing a person has ever said – 17 frank responses

On Thursday, Donald Trump took time out of his busy schedule of falling asleep in the Oval Office, giving lucrative government contracts to his own children, and rescuing AI-generated women, to post what must be the least self-aware thing a human has ever said. Either that or he’s in a long-running comedy bit and he’s […]

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A conspiracy theorist insisted that the earth is young because it’s ‘biblically supported’, and got dragged from Genesis to Revelation – 17 scathing responses

Wednesday was Earth Day, with this year’s theme of ‘Our Power, Our Planet’ intended to inspire people to collective action to push through a transition to green energy. While some people marked the occasion by planting trees and flowers, meeting in groups to carry out clean-ups of public spaces, and organising clothing swaps to discourage […]

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Life’s just too short to read this ridiculously long Trump Truth Social post, but the reactions are well worth a look – 17 top takedowns

We’re used to Donald Trump’s Truth Social rants, by now, but a recent ‘truth’ he shared may be the longest one he’s posted so far, and that’s definitely not a good sign. Here’s how it looked on his page. The typo-ridden text was copied from Savage Nation, the deranged musings of the far right political […]

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Man jailed for rape of woman almost 50 years ago after DNA breakthrough

David Sharp was convicted of rape and indecent assault following a DNA cold case review by West Yorkshire Police, nearly five decades after he attacked a woman

'African tribe' leader deported from UK after 'lost tribe' evicted from Scottish woods

Kofi Offeh, who called himself King Atehene and led the self-styled 'Kingdom of Kubala', has been deported back to Ghana after a Scotland immigration case that saw his group evicted from a Scottish Borders woodland

Donald Trump gets on the phone... with Americast’s Sarah Smith

The president talks to Americast’s Sarah Smith about Starmer, the King and Iran.

NHS trust 'failed to warn mum of home birth risks' before week-old baby Poppy died

A coroner found that the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust failed to inform Poppy Lomas's mother of the risks involved in a home birth

Police update on Epsom church rape investigation after protestors clashed with cops

Surrey Police have said they are “confident there was no offence” following an investigation into an alleged rape outside a church in Epsom that sparked protests

Andrew Windsor's bodyguards 'had no clue' about Epstein's sex crimes during New York trip

A former royal protection officer claims Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's security team didn't know Jeffrey Epstein was a sex offender during an infamous New York visit

Migrant gang rapist was already on run for murder before coming to UK on small boat

An Egyptian fugitive wanted for murder entered the UK on a small boat before gang-raping a woman on Brighton beach as he and his accomplices now face deportation

Sexual predator who deliberately infected vulnerable men with HIV learns his fate

Adam Hall, 43, was convicted of five counts of rape and seven counts of GBH with intent after deliberately infecting vulnerable men with HIV between 2016 and 2023. He 'set out to infect as many as he could'

Girl, 10, finds rare amphibian 5,500 miles from home in UK river in world first

Melanie Hill's daughter Evie had been playing down by the River Ogmore in Bridgend, South Wales., when she made the incredible find on April 10.

Two schoolboys hospitalised after 'fireworks thrown' in Glasgow street

A large emergency presence and a bomb disposal unit were spotted on Dixon Avenue in the Govanhill area on Thursday afternoon, with two pupils from Holyrood Secondary School reportedly injured

Brits spend just 84 minutes outside per day – see how your age group compares

A new study has found the average amount of time UK adults spend outdoors each day, with one in five Brits rarely getting a full day outside – and it turns out your age makes a big difference

Brits delay GP appointments due to fear of bad news and embarrassment

From headaches to sore throats, new research shows Brits are avoiding seeking medical advice – but could be risking their health

Which Brit city lasts longest in the bedroom as perfect 'sex duration' revealed

A new survey has rated the best places in the UK to head to for a bonk - with residents in one city lasting an impressive 29 minutes and 41 seconds

HMRC to send letters telling thousands of people to claim £2,200

Hundreds of thousands of people have money waiting to be claimed

Under-16s have their say on possible social media ban

Thirty three children discussed possible limits the government are considering on social media.

'My choir used my whale sound recordings to make a song celebrating the ocean'

A choir records a track using whale songs a member of the group helped gather in an Icelandic fjord.

Grandfather says Britain's Got Talent duet with grandson was 'greatest moment'

The pair went from singing in care homes to the Britain's Got Talent stage.

Watch: Couple who met on bus take double decker to their wedding

The pair are now married after meeting during their commute last summer.

Puss in Boots, voiced by Antonio Banderas, is on an exciting quest

Puss teams up with a fellow thieving feline and Humpty Dumpty to go on an exciting quest.

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