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A woman who pleaded for the release of her daughter held hostage by Hamas has died from brain cancer less than a month after she was rescued.Noa Argamani was kidnapped from the Nova music festival in October and video of her being taken away on a motorbike made headlines around the world.Her mother, Liora, 61, said she wanted to see her only child again before she died. Image: The image […]

The mother of missing Jay Slater says she and her family are "absolutely devastated" about the teenager's disappearance.The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, disappeared on 17 June after setting off to walk back to his accommodation while on holiday in Tenerife. In a statement issued through the British overseas missing persons charity LBT Global, Debbie Duncan said "words cannot describe the pain and agony we are experiencing"."Jay is a normal […]

At least 60 people are feared to have been killed in a stampede at a religious gathering in northern India, officials have said.More than 150 others were taken to hospitals after the crush in a village in the Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh. District police spokesperson Manish Chikara said about 60 people have died, but added that figure may rise, while broadcaster NDTV reports at least 87 have been killed.The […]

Pearl Jam have cancelled two more tour dates due to illness, after pulling out of a London gig last week.The rock group had been due to play in Berlin on Tuesday and Wednesday but called it off because "the band has yet failed to make a full recovery". The type of illness, or which band members have been affected, has not been revealed.They said tickets would be refunded at point […]

Widespread damage has been reported only hours after Hurricane Beryl first made landfall in the southeastern Caribbean. Roofs were ripped off buildings, trees were uprooted and electricity lines brought crashing to the ground on several islands when the ferocious storm swept in earlier on Monday. Winds of up to 150mph were reported in some areas, with schools, businesses, airports, and government offices forced to close. There were also warnings that […]

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Police in Tenerife have called off their search for missing British teenager Jay Slater on Sunday nearly two weeks after he disappeared.The 19-year-old, from Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn in Lancashire, was last seen on Monday 17 June after he told a friend he planned to walk from the northwestern village of Masca to his holiday accommodation in Los Cristianos in the south - a journey that would take 11 hours on […]

An "extremely dangerous" storm is approaching the southeast Caribbean amid urgent pleas from government officials for people to take shelter.Hurricane Beryl is expected to hit the Windward Islands on Monday morning. Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines."This is a very dangerous situation," warned the National Hurricane Center in Miami, which said Beryl was "forecast to bring life-threatening winds and […]

A new political reality has been revealed in France, it has a new face and a new name - 28-year-old Jordan Bardella.Frontman of the hard-right, he has helped propel National Rally to a clear-cut lead in the first round of parliamentary elections. Bardella, the party's choice for prime minister, stands on the brink of power if National Rally secures a majority in the second round of voting."I want to tell […]