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Long Beach school officer shoots 18-year-old, leaving her on life support
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An 18-year-old woman is on life support after a school safety officer shot her near a high school in Long Beach, California, this week, sparking outrage and renewing calls for armed officers to be removed from schools...
Dean Berta Viñales, 15-year-old cousin of Maverick, dies in Superbike crash
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The 15-year-old Dean Berta Viñales, cousin of the MotoGP rider Maverick Viñales, died following a crash in the Supersport 300 support race of the World Superbike Championship in Jerez, organisers said on Saturday. The...
Dan Aykroyd: ‘I still have the lizard brain of a 20-year-old’
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I am actually one of the few people on the planet who is a heterochromiac syndactylite. I have webbed middle toes on both feet. I also have different coloured eyes: one is brown, one is green. I don’t know how many of...
Colombia’s 12-year-old eco-activist refuses to let death threats dim passion
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Ever since someone threatened to kill her 12-year-old son, Ana Maria Manzanares says life has felt like Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. In January, Francisco Vera was sent anonymous death threats on Twitter after ...
Bernadette Walker: man jailed for life for murdering 17-year-old
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A man convicted of murdering 17-year-old Bernadette Walker, who went missing in July last year and whose body has never been found, has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 32 years. Scott Walker, 5...
California: mother fights off mountain lion with bare hands to save 5-year-old son
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A mountain lion that attacked a 5-year-old boy in southern California has been shot and killed by a wildlife officer, authorities say. The 65-pound (30kg) mountain lion attacked the boy while he was playing near his h...
Well-preserved 28,000-year-old lion cub found in Siberian permafrost
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Scientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia’s permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even have traces of its mother’s milk in it. The female cub, named Sparta, was found...
Man who conned 92-year-old with fake Covid jab is jailed
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A man who posed as an NHS worker to scam a 92-year-old woman into paying £140 for a fake Covid-19 vaccine has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison. Kathleen Martin, now 93, said she hoped her “harrowing”...
1,000-year-old remains in Finland may be non-binary iron age leader
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Modern analysis of a 1,000-year-old grave in Finland challenges long-held beliefs about gender roles in ancient societies, and may suggest non-binary people were not only accepted but respected members of their commun...
Police officer convicted of assaulting black man and 15-year-old boy
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A police officer has been convicted of assaulting two black males within two days, including kicking a 15-year-old boy when he was on the ground. PC Declan Jones of West Midlands police denied the assaults but was con...
100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard to be tried
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A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard will stand trial in Germany in October accused of complicity in 3,518 murders, public prosecutors have announced. The prosecutor’s office in Neuruppin, which first brough...
‘No parallels’: 2,300-year-old solar observatory awarded Unesco world heritage status
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The oldest solar observatory in the Americas has been awarded Unesco world heritage status and dubbed “a masterpiece of human creative genius”. The 2,300-year-old archaeological ruin Chankillo which lies in a desert v...
14-year-old motorbike rider Hugo Millán killed in European Talent Cup race
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A 14-year-old Spanish rider died after being struck by another rider in a motorcycle race in Spain on Sunday, organizers said. Hugo Millán was run over after going down in the middle of the track on the second lap of ...
19-year-old drowns off Lancashire pier as England heatwave ends
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A 19-year-old man has become the latest person to die after swimming in open water as England’s hot weather came to an end. Lancashire Constabulary said in a statement emergency services including the coastguard were ...
Why is a 108-year-old resorting to GoFundMe to pay for home care?
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A 108-year-old woman named Juliet Bernstein recently launched a GoFundMe to pay for around-the-clock home care that she could otherwise not afford. A retired schoolteacher who is physically frail but mentally sharp, B...
Irish 10-year-old uses €1,000 win to buy herd of calves
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When William Woods won €1,000 (£860) in a prize draw the 10-year-old knew exactly what to do: buy a herd of calves. Lockdown had disrupted schooling and impeded meeting friends so spending days in a field tending his ...