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A top boss at Canada’s tax-payer funded broadcaster allegedly banned journalists from referring to 9/11 as ‘terror attacks.’In an apparently leaked memo to staff obtained by the Toronto Sun, Basem Boshra told reporters and editors at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: ‘Do not refer to the Sept 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.’The note goes on to advise reporters to say that ‘the hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Manhattan.’The World Trade Center (WTC in second reference) was destroyed,’ the memo continued, citing the CBC’s internal language guide. Boshra, the senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC News, appears to have…

Hundreds of police officers from across England have been drafted in to restore order in Middlesbrough amid fears the town is on the brink of descending into a gang war. Violence, believed to be linked to five young men who were killed in a wrong-way crash on the A66 on Saturday, has spiralled across Teesside. This afternoon, armed police swarmed a house on the Bankfield estate in Eston after a 39-year-old man was injured in a stabbing. A house was also rammed by a vehicle this morning in South Bank.The suspected knife attack took place just down the road from a suspicious house fire…

A 16-year-old Utah boy has been charged with murdering his mom and younger brother over a year after they were shot dead in their home. The suspect, who has not been named because he is a minor, was 15 at the time that his mother Jessica Lyman, 44, and half-brother Eli Painter, eight, were killed in their home in Saratoga Springs, Utah on March 27, 2025. The teenager alleged he was sleeping when the violence unfolded and claimed not to know what happened when his 17-year-old sister found the bodies the next morning, prosecutors said in newly released court documents first reported…

The lost city of Atlantis could be hidden beneath an undisclosed stretch of the Atlantic Ocean, a retired US Navy admiral has claimed.Tim Gallaudet said he is working with researchers who believe detailed maps of the seabed contain features matching the legendary civilization’s ancient description.Atlantis was described by the Greek philosopher Plato more than 2,000 years ago as a wealthy island empire with a capital built around rings of land and water.According to the legend, violent earthquakes and floods swallowed the island in a single day and night. Plato’s Timaeus‘We believe we found the region in the Atlantic. We have…

British families have been in agony trying to contact loved ones missing in Nepal’s deadly ‘tsunami from the sky’.As rescuers battled to reach villages wiped out by Wednesday’s 600ft surging wall of mud, rock and ice, dozens of Britons remain unaccounted for.Relatives spent Thursday in tortuous limbo, frantically checking phone trackers and trying to call devices that would not connect.They spent the day desperately trying to contact anyone in the region who could help while some took it upon themselves and flew from Britain to the disaster zone.The monster mudslide swept away roads, bridges and homes in seconds, while also…

Backroom costs for Scotland’s NHS soared by £58million in just one year and the annual bill is now £1.1billion – enough to pay for 33,000 new nurses.While the NHS struggles to cope with pressure on the frontline, the bill for corporate functions like human resources, finance and communications has sky-rocketed.The soaring costs despite repeated promises by SNP ministers over several years to reform Scotland’s public sector to bring down costs.It led to renewed calls for the number of health boards to be cut so that back office savings can be reinvested to help ‘exhausted’ staff deal with the crisis on…

On a 2-acre property in Mississippi, 52-year-old Krystal Polk’s family lived off the land for generations, raising chickens and pigs, growing onions and herbs and trading their peaches for pears.The land, on the border with Tennessee in the city of Southaven, was her family’s survival, Polk said. “We lived a very simplistic life,” she told CBS News.While life there may have been simple in Polk’s view, the circumstances surrounding her home rarely ever were. Her family acquired the property “before people of color were allowed to have land,” she said, and it’s been passed down for four generations. When Polk’s…

Unlock more of the best of our cricket coverage with a DailyMail+ subscription – brilliant exclusives, in-depth insight and the writers you love every day  There were still dark, angry clouds over Lord’s when Joe Root walked out to bat just before 1pm. England had been reduced to 26-2 by the bowling of Mohammad Abbas and Root was thrust straight into the firing line against the Pakistan attack. After the week the England captain has had, he could have been forgiven for thinking it never rains but it pours. Root, a battlefield promotion as England skipper after the sudden exit of Ben…

Lindsay Clancy’s murder case is now in the hands of a Massachusetts jury after 22 days of testimony in Plymouth Superior Court.Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Clancy admits to killing the children in their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. She then slit her throat and jumped from a window, breaking her neck. The fall left her paralyzed. Her defense claims that she was overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis, and so should not be held criminally responsible. Prosecutors allege that she planned…

The deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday was likely caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists. That may have led to the backed-up water surging downstream with enormous force a few hours later, they suggested.Scientists are still piecing together information from satellite and ground-level data to figure out exactly what happened to cause the flood, which killed hundreds of people and left over a thousand more missing, including foreigners and pilgrims. The U.S. Geological Survey on Wednesday reported a magnitude 5.2 glacier collapse that…