Day: June 12, 2025
Two killers chased stranger into Tube station and stabbed him with zombie knife
June 12, 2025Two young men who chased a stranger into a Tube station and stabbed him to death with a zombie knife in front of horrified commuters are facing a life sentence. Milumo Pedrinho and Kevin Nguyen, both 21, have been convicted of murdering 33-year-old Ervin Baraku, who died after being attacked at Seven Sisters Underground station in north […]
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Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke win Women’s Prize book awards
June 12, 2025Dutch writer Yael van der Wouden won the Women’s Prize for Fiction on Thursday for her debut novel “The Safekeep,” a story of repressed emotion and historical memory in the Netherlands after World War II. British physician Rachel Clarke won the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction for exploring the human drama behind organ donation in “The […]
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Miracle in seat 11a: British national survives Air India plane crash disaster
June 12, 2025A British national miraculously survived the Air India plane disaster in which a Boeing 787 crashed and exploded moments after taking off for London, killing at least 290 people, his family has said. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, was found in seat 11A with relatively minor injuries after Thursday’s crash in the western city of Ahmedabad. […]
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British crash survivor told family ‘I don’t know how I’m alive’ seconds after plane came down
June 12, 2025The British man who survived the Air India plane crash told his family “I don’t know how I’m alive” in a phone call seconds after the plane came down, his brother has told Sky News. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh is the only passenger reported to have survived after Air India Flight 171 crashed into a building […]
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Two women die after ‘incident’ in national park
June 12, 2025Two women have died after an incident in Wales’s largest national park, police have confirmed. North Wales Police said the women died in Nant Gwynant, in Eryri National Park, also known as Snowdonia, on Wednesday night. Officers were called to the scene at 9.31pm after they received a report a female had been pulled from […]
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Free travel for over-60s costs taxpayers £100,000,000 more than fare dodgers
June 12, 2025Your browser does not support the audio element. Freebie travel benefits for pensioners are costing the taxpayer three times as much as London Underground fare dodgers do. More than 1.5million Londoners aged 60 and over can travel for free on London’s buses, Tubes, trains and trams. But the schemes – the 60 Oyster Card and […]
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Samurai sword killer ‘screamed in delight’ after nearly decapitating schoolboy
June 12, 2025A killer screamed ‘in delight’ after hacking a 14-year-old boy to death with a samurai sword, the Old Bailey heard today. Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, virtually decapitated Daniel, who had been on his way to school wearing his PE kit with his earphones on. Witness Maria Olmos described Monzo’s reaction after the attack saying: ‘As […]
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British couple feared to have been on Air India flight named and pictured
June 12, 2025To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A British couple are feared to be among the victims onboard the Air India flight AI171. Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek and Jamie Meek, based in London, had been travelling in India before the crash and posted videos of their […]
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Three teenage girls admit killing 75-year-old man in the street
June 12, 2025Katie Boyden Published June 12, 2025 10:31am Updated June 12, 2025 3:50pm Three teenage girls have admitted killing a 75-year-old man in London. Fredi Rivero was found injured on Seven Sisters Road in Islington last Thursday. He was taken to hospital but died on Friday morning. Three teenage girls aged 14, 16 and 17, who […]
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CEO turned away from London tech event because ‘she had her baby with her’
June 12, 2025A CEO has called for business events to be more inclusive after being turned away for having her baby with her. Davina Schonle, founder of AI company Humanvantage, was hoping to attend London Tech Week with her young daughter, who was in a pram. But after a three-hour drive to attend the event, she was […]
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