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Map shows heat dome set to break centuries-old temperature records across US

A heat dome is expected to roast more than 30 US states and affect 100million Americans through next week.

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‘I’d rather they killed us’ How rape became a weapon in war

‘It is not OK for any human to live with this level of fear.'

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Florida attorney general offers Trump ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ prison to hold immigrants

Florida's attorney general proposed an 'Alligator Alcatraz' surrounded by gators and pythons to President Donald Trump to detain immigrants.

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Drug dealer jailed after police found £3,800,000 of cocaine during traffic stop

Officers found over 25 kilos of cocaine.

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Urgent recall for cough syrup over risk of deadly food poisoning

Children's Little Remedies Honey Cough Syrup has been recalled due to contamination with a deadly bacteria.

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Trump shows he still isn’t over 2020 election defeat as he demands investigation

'Biden was grossly incompetent and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD!'

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Prisoner painstakingly dug a tunnel but failed to escape after getting stuck

Wardens foiled his attempt after seeing 'strange movement'.

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Met enforces protest restrictions ahead of pro-Palestine and counter-demonstrations in London

A demonstration organised by a number of groups under the banner of the Palestine Coalition is set to take place on Saturday afternoon

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Toddler dies in hot car after ‘dad left him to get haircut and drink at bar for three hours’

A Florida father allegedly left his 18-month-old son in a hot truck and went drinking at Hanky Panky's Lounge.

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Inside New York’s ‘Pigeon Fest’ where impersonators battle for title

Pigeons were given a massive celebration in central New York this week.

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Russian tech billionaire Pavel Durov claims to have over 100 children

The tech billionaire has claimed to have over 100 children.

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The weird and wonderful ways you can cure a Glastonbury hangover

Already thinking about the hangover? We've got you covered.

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Your earwax might be able to predict if you have Parkinson’s disease

Differences in the chemicals people's bodies produce - which some people can even smell - may help detect the disease much earlier on.

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Beauty queen who won £6,000,000 Omaze mansion is denied keys over planning row

The former Miss Wales finalist won the Norfolk property in February.

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Woman faces £24,000 bill over faulty electric meter

SmartestEnergy has issued a bill of £24,010 for the year, and will cut off her power unless she agrees to pay it back at £2,022 per week, she says.

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Seven men arrested as ‘protesters attacked’ outside Iranian embassy in London

Paramedics treated two patients at the scene and took one to hospital and another to a major trauma centre

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‘We need more spaces in London to nurture creativity’ – how this venue is paving the way

'We need more spaces like this that exist in different parts of London to nurture the creativity in all of us.'

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Mum attacked police believing they were impostors who’d come to kill her

Ashleigh Marsh said she suffered a mental health breakdown that led to delusions.

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Woman, 69, accused of murdering her film director sister at home near Regent’s Park

Corgi owner Jennifer Abbott, 69, was discovered in her north London home by her niece and neighbours who broke her door down

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Man in 40s shot dead near Costco superstore in Croydon

A TikTok video taken outside appears to show the immediate aftermath of the shooting in Imperial Way