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Five-year-old girl whose parents died while shielding her in the El Paso shooting is still scared

The heartbreaking words of a little girl whose parents died in the El Paso shooting were revealed by her grandmother. Skylin Jamrowski then asked if the gunman was 'going to come and shoot me too.'




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Man cooking on a stove in a Walmart parking lot sets his van on fire killing a six-year-old girl

A 70-year-old man camping in a Walmart parking lot put a hot cook stove in his van, causing it to catch fire and spread to another van, burning two young sisters and killing one of them.




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Four-year-old is VERY excited to receive four bottles of MUSTARD for Christmas

Annmarie Lent from Florida says her four-year-old daughter Paislee will eat mustard on everything. On Christmas, she gave her a wrapped box with four bottles of Great Value mustard inside.




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Syrian refugee who aced Year 12 exams becomes an Australian citizen

Saad Al-Kassab, now 22, made nation headlines in 2016 after scoring am ATAR or 96.65 and being named dux of his Catholic school in Melbourne. He had fled from Syria two years earlier.




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The news images of the year: Brexit anger, Hong Kong protests and Theresa May's tearful goodbye

Getty Images have published their annual News Images Of The Year - a poignant collection of photographs from politics (pictured), war zones and current affairs in 2019.




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Syrian refugee, 18, who arrived in Britain eight years ago studies medicine at Cambridge

Nazh Chendi barely spoke a word of English when she arrived in Britain as a refugee from Syria eight years ago. She is now studying medicine at Cambridge University.




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Ancient human settlement was obliterated by a COMET exploding in Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago

The event destroyed a village found in the Abu Hureyra dig site in Syria and splattered fragments of molten glass 'hot enough to melt cars' to the ground.




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London bus lane nets £4.5m in fines in just one year

Almost 70,000 motorists were caught out by the traffic-calming measure designed to stop rat runs in the London suburb of Surbiton.




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Parsons Green bomber jailed for 34 years after trying to kill 93

A judge was satisfied that Ahmed Hassan lied about his age to remain in the UK. He was convicted of attempting to kill 93 commuters with a homemade bomb at Parsons Green station.




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Furious London commuters slam 12-YEAR wait to get air conditioning

Commuters have been suffering in recent weeks as the capital battles through a heatwave that has seen temperatures approach 104F (40C) on the Underground.




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Anti-social mess including vomit, urine and blood soils nearly 15,000 London buses in just a year

Buses in London were strewn with anti-social mess including vomit, urine and blood thousands of times last year. Several bus routes had vehicles soiled on average more than twice per week.




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Serena Williams tops Forbes' list of highest-paid female athletes for fourth consecutive year

Serena Williams tops Forbes' list of highest-paid female athletes for the fourth year in a row after amassing a huge £24million in 12 months.




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New Year's Concert 2020 review: A breath of fresh air

Sony regularly rush-releases the New Year's Day concert from Vienna, and I sometimes wonder why it bothers. But not this time.




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Child-snatcher fears as woman tries to grab two-year-old girl from mother's side

Hannah Rowe was left terrified when a woman 'came out of nowhere' in Fareham, Hampshire, and told her daughter, Alice, to 'come with me' just days after a man was spotted loitering outside a school.




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Liam Gallagher's son Gene, 18, and the 18-year-old grandson of Beatle Ringo Starr in court

Gene Gallagher was pictured with the All Saints star and his half brother Lennon on a London street this afternoon after his court appearance where he pleaded not guilty to affray.




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Tesco manager jailed for six years after dumping man's body in woodland when he died during chemsex

Hiran Chauhan, 24, went to the home of Neil Cuckson, 32, after they chatted on dating app Grindr and discussed taking drugs, Manchester Crown Court heard.




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Sainsbury's predicts loss of more than £500m profits this year

Boss Mike Coupe has revealed that for five days running at the start of the lockdown food sales were higher than the busiest shopping days at Christmas leaving shelves largely empty.




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Milton Keynes pensioner amazed to see herself as a 14 year old in photo used for new VE day stamp

Bette Williamson, 90, from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, couldn't believe it when her son told her she was on one of the VE commemorative stamps. It features a shot of her celebrating in 1945.




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Detectives quiz murder suspect, 42 after 79-year-old man is found dead with head injury

Anthony Rooks, 79, was discovered collapsed with a head injury at a property in Dalmeny Road, Holloway, north London at around 7.20pm on Monday. A 42-year-old man has been arrested.




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Colourised pictures from Spanish flu 100 years ago show people wearing almost identical Covid masks

Face masks became a vital piece of equipment in 1918 - be it for those out for a stroll on a street, Red Cross nurses treating the injured or a worker spraying the top of a London bus.




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Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson 'SPLIT after nearly two years of dating'

It has been claimed that the couple called it quits last month after their relationship had 'run its course.'




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UK commemorates VE Day 75 years on in lockdown celebrations

The nation will come together today to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, and remember those who fought and died in the Second World War.




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Our Lady of Paris: The 850-year-old cathedral that survived being sacked

Notre Dame de Paris is a masterpiece of French Gothic design, and the seat of the Archbishop of Paris. It has survived Revolutionary atheism in the 1790s and Nazi gunfire during the Occupation.




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Why the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral is 'incredibly flammable'

The interior frame of the Notre Dame Cathedral includes roughly 52 acres of wood in total, experts say. The wood inside was already crumbling before the fire, leading parts to be closed off.




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UK parliament could go up in flames just like Notre Dame after catching fire 40 times in four years

Politicians have today warned of a grave fire risk at the Palace of Westminster, which in 1834 was destroyed in a blaze before being rebuilt by the architect Charles Barry.




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BBC Sports Personality of the Year shortlist: Andy Murray and Jamie Vardy nominated

MARTHA KELNER: After winning Wimbledon, Olympic gold and becoming world No 1, Murray could make history again by becoming the first person to win the SPOTY trophy three times.




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Andy Murray takes SJA Sportsman of the Year award while Laura Kenny also wins gong at annual ceremony

The Scot won his second Wimbledon title, took gold at the Olympic Games in Rio in August and achieved world No 1 status for the first time while also becoming a father.




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Six arrested over a plot to strike Brussels during New Year's Eve celebrations

Six more people have been detained over an alleged plot to strike Brussels. Two other men have already been formally charged with terrorism-related offences.




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European terror attacks over the last 2 years pictured on chilling map

In 2014, four people were killed in a deadly attack in Brussels, in 2015 a staggering 267 people were slain in atrocities across the continent and so far, in 2016, 172 have died in terrifying attacks.




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Sting will re-open Paris' Bataclan concert hall a year after ISIS Paris attacks

The former The Police frontman, 65, whose real name is Gordon Sumner, has agreed to the gig to honour those who lost their lives at the Bataclan in Paris on November 13, 2015.




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ISIS Bataclan massacre victims still in hospital a year after Paris attacks

Fanatics gunned down 90 revellers at the Paris venue on November 13 last year as they were watching a performance by the US band Eagles of Death Metal.




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Terror-related deaths in the West surge by 650% in a year, and over half were linked to ISIS

Deaths in the West due to terrorism rose from 77 in 2014 to 577 in 2015, according to a new report, with the majority of fatalities coming in large scale attacks such as the Paris shootings.




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Map shows jihadi attacks across Europe in two years

This terrifying map documents the sixteen different attacks carried out by jihadis which have killed 364 people in Europe.




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Four-year-old Garforth girl wants to be a football referee

The father of four-year-old Clara shared an image of his daughter watching an assistant female referee on the pitch at a local football match in Leeds. Nathan told his followers she wanted to be a ref.




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Leeds three-year-old girl recites Taekwondo creed

Sophie (pictured), three, is a member of Leeds Taekwondo - and when she practices the Korean martial art - she isn't messing around.




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Female paedophile is jailed for seven years

Michaela Sheldrake, 41, was jailed for seven years at Leeds Crown Court after being caught with a huge hoard of child porn. She had also taken hundreds of indecent pictures of a girl under 16.




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Police launch urgent hunt for missing 12-year-old boy from Leeds

George Blanchard, 12, (pictured) was last seen at 12.12pm on Monday in the Chapeltown area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, but has not been seen since and police are becoming 'very concerned'.




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Farnley mother 'starved 18-year-old son to death in house of horrors'

Jordan Burling, 18, of Farnley, Leeds, died as a result of malnutrition in June 2016. He weighed around six stones when paramedics found him lying on a filthy mattress, wearing a soiled nappy.




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Leeds landlord jailed for a year after two children die in inferno

Emma Taylor told a court how she has been left devastated after her sons Logan, 3, and Jake, 2 (pictured together), died in a fire at their home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.




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Britain's most irreverent quiz of the year

From the Christmas General Election to a solid gold toilet being stolen from inside Blenheim Palace, this year has been packed with inimitable stories.




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Event brings you the must-read books of the year

There was bad behaviour to be found in all sorts of books published this year, from the highest to the lowest




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Just two of the unbelievable but true stories from 2019's weirdest book of the year

Did you know that in 2019 a Belgian man broke the record for sitting on the toilet for the longest time - 116 hours?




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Craig Brown loves 93-year-old Jan Morris's beguilingly dotty diary

Now aged 93 ('well past my sell-by date'), Jan Morris has taken to keeping a diary, or something like a diary, but more public, as it is clearly written for publication




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New push to set up English classes for refugees 70 per cent jobless year after arriving in Australia

The federal government plans to set up English classes in refugee camps to give potential immigrants a better shot at getting a job when they get to Australia.




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Romanian immigrant who once drove for Trump is still in ICE custody a year later

Zoltan Tamas (pictured), an immigrant from Romania who once drove for President Donald Trump is still being detained by ICE a year after he was given a deportation reprieve.




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People smuggler jailed for two years after 10 months on run

Adam Raynor was initially arrested at the French terminal of the Channel Tunnel in June 2019 after the Chinese and Vietnamese nationals were found in the back of his car.




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England medic Dr Rob Chakraverty is under-fire again... three years after Mo Farah storm

In 2017, Ed Warner noted Dr Rob Chakraverty's sloppy documentation of an injection to Sir Mo Farah had been logged in his annual appraisal. It looks now to be a matter for his permanent record.




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Coronavirus UK: Mo Farah still going for Tokyo gold next year after Olympic Games were postponed

Mo Farah insists he will be prepared to race at the rescheduled Olympics next year. The Tokyo Games were postponed last week due to coronavirus.




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FIFA reveal 2030 World Cup vote will be held in 2024... giving hosts just six years to prepare

The hosts of the 2030 World Cup will only have six years to prepare for the tournament. The FIFA Council decided at a meeting Thursday that the bidding process will be launched in 2022.




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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Clarkson's wheeze stalls as ex-Top Gear chums' company loses £6.7m in a year

I can disclose that the company behind it, Digital Tribe Holdings - which Clarkson set up with his co-hosts Richard 'The Hamster' Hammond and James May, - lost £6.7 million last year.