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Two armed response officers tragically died in the line of duty when their patrol car was hit head-on by teenage joyriders driving the wrong way on a major road.PC Matthew Blades, 38, and PC Tom Clough, 37, were among seven people killed in the crash on the A66 at Middlesbrough yesterday.The officers and the five occupants of a Volkswagen Passat were all declared dead at the scene.Last night it emerged Makai Saddington, one of the teenagers killed in the crash, had posted a string of TikTok videos appearing to show him taking part in high-speed police chases.Cleveland Police lowered flags…

A group of officers seeking to arrest a Missouri sex offender plummeted to the ground when the second–story wooden deck they were on collapsed.Body camera footage captured the moment nine law enforcement officers, including US Marshals Service members, suddenly fell in Huntsville on July 21.The clip posted by the US Marshals Service on Wednesday showed the officers, some armed, standing in a line outside of an apartment door on the 400 block of Vaunita Street.They were preparing to arrest 26–year–old Jacob Alexander Munoz for failing to register as a sex offender when the collapse happened, according to the Associated Press.The…

Bill Maher stopped Hunter Biden in his tracks while they discussed the ongoing war in Iran – as the comedian dished the former first son a dose of reality about the conflict. Biden joined the late-night talk show host on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, discussing his father, Joe Biden, the Iran war and his addiction recovery.At one point, Biden, 56, bashed President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner for his role in negotiations with Iran as the US Special Envoy for Peace. Hunter told Maher: ‘[Jared Kushner] is our unelected, unappointed emissary to the Middle East for a war that…

Thousands of people were told to leave their homes immediately as the gigantic Hawk Fire spread across more than 10,000 acres in Nevada.The fast–growing blaze had expanded to 10,523 acres as of Saturday night, prompting orders in northwest Reno and the North Valleys, according to the KRXI2.As of Saturday night, none of the dangerous fire had been contained. Earlier in the day, it had been estimated at roughly 3,000 acres.’Go now’ evacuation orders were in effect for north and northwest of Somersett, north of Verdi, the west side of Golden Valley, Lemmon Valley and Stead. Other portions of the latter…

The palm-fringed resort of Two Seasons on Tokeh Beach in Sierra Leone offers privacy, seclusion and plenty of accommodation for a retinue of staff and security.The mountains behind are topped with lush tropical greenery, and to the west, there’s only the Atlantic, next-stop South America.Everything, in fact, that a fugitive drugs kingpin with a price on his head could ask for.But Dutch cocaine baron Jos Leijdekkers, 35, has found a lot more to his taste in this deeply corrupt nation than the clutch of upmarket beach villas he now calls home.Since the dramatic arrest of ‘cartel leader’ Daniel Kinahan in…

A twisted North Carolina mother viciously beat her two-year-old daughter to death before asking for a ghoulish ‘after life’ photoshoot, according to the photographer. Jeanie Kassandra Ditty was found guilty of the heinous crime and sentenced to life in jail, the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys announced on Thursday. Her fate was delivered more than a decade after her daughter, Macy Grace Ditty, was rushed to Cape Fear Valley Regional Medical Center with bruises all over her body on December 2, 2015, prosecutors said in a press release. Medical staff determined that the child ‘suffered at least 40 separate physical blows’ that had been…

An Australia Zoo wildlife rescuer has won a Fair Work battle against the Queensland tourist attraction run by Steve Irwin’s widow, Terri Irwin, and their children, Bindi and Robert. Erica Henning, who joined the famous conservation park in 2023, challenged her grade two classification before the Fair Work Commission (FWC).She argued the role’s specialist demands required a higher level of skill and independence than the zoo recognised.In her role, Ms Henning responds to reports of injured native animals, drives 4WD rescue vehicles, captures and transports wildlife and, when necessary, sedates animals before returning them to the zoo’s wildlife hospital.She also handles…

Cautiously eyeing her fellow passengers, Anastasia clutched her handbag tighter than usual as she rode on a crowded bus home from her bank’s branch in northern Moscow.This 70-year-old pensioner is now regularly withdrawing money because she hears whispers that Vladimir Putin may grab the savings of ordinary people and plough them into his endless war, or use them to prop up his creaking economy.’I scoffed at my babushka [grandmother] stashing her roubles under her mattress,’ said the modestly well-off retired senior civil servant. ‘Now I’m doing the same. I am so concerned and, honestly, scared.’This time she withdrew just under £1,000-worth…

Labor’s Special Envoy for Housing Josh Burns was unable to explain Treasury’s modelling, which predicted the government’s housing tax changes would increase rents by $2 a week, as economists warn the reforms could add pressure to tenants. In a News24 interview with Andrew Clennell on Sunday, Burns repeatedly dodged questions about how Treasury calculated the $2 figure mentioned in the May budget.The reforms include the removal of negative gearing for existing homes and the end of the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount, replacing it with a 30 per cent flat tax indexed to inflation.Economists and property industry groups have…

The shattered fiancée of under-fire Sydney Swans player Isaac Heeney appears to be reconsidering their engagement after the Daily Mail pictured her in tears and without her ring in Noosa on Friday.Steffie Waters fled to her sister’s secluded mountain property on the outskirts of the Queensland tourist town while Heeney remains at the centre of a gathering storm.Heeney and four other Swans, Chad Warner, Riley Bice, Nick Blakey and James Jordon, have been stood down for the remainder of the 2026 AFL season after the club found the players had breached its standards by staying out late, drinking and bringing women back…