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Unseen events that unleashed a half-mile wide glacial sword of Damocles that's now feared to have killed thousands, explained by DEEP DIVE

Thousands are feared dead after a churning wall of mud, rock and pulverised ice bulldozed down a Himalayan valley straddling the border of Nepal and China, crumpling concrete and washing away entire villages in scenes reminiscent of a Hollywood disaster movie. The towering wave of the unstoppable flash flood stood up to 650ft high, scientists probing the tragedy say.

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Lawless youths torch field of cars in warped tribute to victim of A66 crash: As hundreds of extra police are drafted into Middlesbrough amid fears of gang carnage, masked thugs show what they think of crackdown

A mob of youths torched several cars and set off fireworks at a balloon release for one of the A66 crash gang last night. Teens in tracksuits gathered to remember Michael Cahill, 23 - one of the five men who died in a wrong-way crash with a police car that also killed two officers. At least five cars were set ablaze in a horse field near Haswell, County Durham, with the startled animals looking on from the far side.

How many boys DID she seduce? Chemistry teacher was found guilty of grooming and seducing two boys in the 80s. So were there more victims... and why has it taken so long for Sally-Ann Bowden to face justice?

Sally-Anne Bowen was bubbly, blonde and in her mid-20s - in other words nothing like her 'fusty' lab coat-wearing colleagues at the all-boys school in north London .

SAMANTHA BRICK: I married a man 10 years older than me... but now he's a ghost of the husband he was before. It's difficult to admit but this isn't how I imagined my life in my 50s - the strain is unimaginable

I'd just driven for three hours to check into a hotel with my husband, Pascal, 65. Not on a jolly but so he could attend a vital hospital appointment the following morning.

OPINIONQUENTIN LETTS: Zack Polanski says the Press needs to be 'sorted out'... what we really need is an inquiry into the Green Party

After a blissfully quiet few weeks when he struggled to score so much as a 'news in brief' paragraph, and the television studios largely stopped calling, Mr Polanski has again been hogging the headlines.

Kylie Jenner finally responds to pregnancy rumours

Unlikely Brit actor favourite for James Bond role

Kaia Gerber is the image of her model mother

Georgia May Foote reveals she's in new relationship

Celebrity Traitors is packed with 'tears and paranoia'

Kylie Jenner finally responds to pregnancy rumours

Unlikely Brit actor favourite for James Bond role

Kaia Gerber is the image of her model mother

Georgia May Foote reveals she's in new relationship

Celebrity Traitors is packed with 'tears and paranoia'

Kylie Jenner finally responds to pregnancy rumours

Unlikely Brit actor favourite for James Bond role

Kaia Gerber is the image of her model mother

Georgia May Foote reveals she's in new relationship

Celebrity Traitors is packed with 'tears and paranoia'

SPECIAL REPORTPutin's new nuclear sub revealed: It's a 10,000-ton behemoth carrying six 'Doomsday' torpedoes that could trigger a devastating radioactive tsunami. Now, experts tell FRED KELLY exactly how it could decimate Britain

Named after Russian explorer Yerofey Khabarov, the Khabarovsk will now undergo rigorous testing before being considered fit for active service.

EXCLUSIVEANDY BURNHAM: These cowboy builders are just crooks. That's why I'll put them out of business

PM says cowboy builders 'prey on the vulnerable, rob our neighbours of their futures and, above all else, they destroy lives'

Writing in the Daily Wail the Prime Minister tells how one woman was driven to attempt suicide by an unscrupulous tradesman who left her home unsafe to live in.

Trump renames Lake Ontario to Lake America as Canada trade war takes ugly turn

INVESTIGATION'It will end when I die': Mustafa was 14 when he was first raped by a group of men. Now, 80 assaults later, he reveals how dancing boys are being dressed as girls and brutalised by sick Taliban officials - and why it's getting worse

He cannot escape the memory of the knife. He holds his hand up and shows me the scar on the underside of his arm, just below the wrist. 'I resisted,' he explains, 'so they forced me.'

SARAH VINE: Dame Jenni Murray will be forever missed... I only wish I'd had the chance to say goodbye

I admired everything about Dame Jenni Murray, from that wonderful voice to that gimlet stare of hers - and above all the way she approached her craft with an open mind and an honest heart.

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We're stealing oxygen from young, says 89-year-old Susan Hampshire

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Living to 90 might sound like something to celebrate, but veteran actress Susan Hampshire, who will reach the milestone next May, sees longevity rather differently.

Helena Bonham Carter's 'happy accident' toyboy romance: How actress, 60, found 'unexpected magic' with her 'old soul' lover Rye Dag Holmboe, 38, after Tim Burton split - but still vows she'll never marry

She previously described her separation from long-term partner Tim Burton as 'transformative' and 'cruel'. But after 'grieving' the end of her relationship with the father of her two children, Helena Bonham Carter went on to find love with art historian Rye Dag Holmboe, a man 21 years her junior, after a 'chance' meeting at a mutual friend's wedding. The actress, 60, has been in a relationship with her 'old soul' lover, 38, since 2018, but despite the romance going from strength to strength, she has stood firm on her vow to never marry.

REVEALED: Woman Loses Six Stone Using 30p Supplement - Doctors Terrified, Big Pharma in Meltdown, Cats and Dogs Living Together!

For nearly a decade Aida Azizii struggled with a hormonal disorder that affects millions of women across Britain, facing a constant battle with her weight. Now she has found a solution.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The climate emergency is over - here comes the rain

The heavens opened, predictably, just in time for this weekend's Reading pop festival. So no change there, then.

Dame Jenni Murray died a week after being dazzled by headlights and crashing into parked cars, inquest hears

A cheerleader for millions of women, Dame Jenni Murray was a celebrated Daily Wail columnist after hosting BBC Woman's Hour for 33 years. A coroner has now explained how she died.

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Dolly Parton was 'ready to try experimental drugs' during secret cancer battle, her sister reveals as she sheds light on icon's final days

Dolly Parton 's younger sister Stella, 77, is opening up about the country music queen's final days.

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I ballooned to size 18 during my miserable marriage. But even during divorce I couldn't shift the pounds - until I realised the real cause... now I've lost 5st without jabs. This is the exact method I used

A typical morning for me, 13 years ago, would go something like this. I would wake up alone, the debris from last night's TV 'treats' littering the bedroom: the family-size bag of crisps, the pot of dips and empty wine bottle - the solitary glass. Immediately, the dread, anxiety and self-loathing started to kick in, shortening my breath, making my heart hammer and my hands and feet tingle. I'd shower, dress and do my make-up, careful not to catch a glimpse of my size 18, 15st body and puffy, blotchy face in the mirror.

Murdered schoolgirl's killer dies just two years into her sentence

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CLARE FOGES: The unhinged Sudanese asylum seeker who brutally stabbed an innocent woman 30 times should never have been allowed on our streets. This is the question all women across Britain are now asking

Shadows in doorways. Keys bunched in your fist as a makeshift weapon. Running down the street, heart hammering. Is that someone following? Making it to your front door unharmed is sweet relief.

Nicole Kidman joins TikTok with sultry video as she gives behind-the-scenes look at Practical Magic 2 premiere

The 59-year-old actress shared a clip which showed her getting glammed up ahead of the star-studded event which took place at the Leicester Square Odeon in London on Thursday night.

Kylie Jenner finally responds to mounting pregnancy rumors with Timothee Chalamet

The 29-year-old lip kit mogul already shares daughter Stormi, eight, and son Aire, four, with her amicable rapper ex Travis Scott.

Cheer up, Traitors stars... it won't be real murders! New series is packed with 'tears and off the scale paranoia' as BBC bosses tease never seen before twists

Celebrity Traitors new series is packed with 'tears and off the scale paranoia' as BBC

Chart-toppers, Oscar-nominees and popular comedians - they are among some of the most successful stars in showbiz. But this year's series of Celebrity Traitors will see 'tears' and a level of 'paranoia' which is 'off the scale', according to the BBC's director of entertainment. Miranda Hart, Michael Sheen, Richard E Grant and Jerry Hall are among the starry cast of competitors who looked decidedly stony-faced in yesterday's trailer for the upcoming season.

Father and son, 72 and 42, die after falling into industrial silage tank on farm

Emergency services launched an urgent search after the incident at a farm in Aston by Budworth, near Northwich in Cheshire yesterday lunchtime.

JAN MOIR: Harry and Meghan remain imbued with a mutual god complex to deliver us from evil and make the world a better place... chiefly for themselves

Meghan is wondering if she can bottle their bounty to make a buck and thinking fondly of the plaudits she'd get for rescuing those damsons in distress.

English teacher at £37,000-a-year private school is banned after admitting he smoked crystal meth 'on the weekends'

Primary teacher Charles Miles sought to tell bosses at the Dwight School that he only abused the drug to 'relax' and that he was 'pretty controlled'.

Davina McCall reveals she received support from Peter Kay following her brain tumour diagnosis and breast cancer battle

Davina McCall has revealed how she was privately supported by comedian Peter Kay after being diagnosed with a brain tumour and breast cancer.

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The faces of Britons missing in Nepal: Families in agony as they anxiously await answers on their loved ones after deadly 'tsunami from the sky'

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.

Astonishing new footage emerges from Nepal - with bus-sized 'boulder' pushed by floodwaters to last-second escapes from tsunami

Astonishing new footage from Nepal has revealed the extent of the damage the powerful flood caused on Wednesday.

Nepal flood RECAP: Incredible footage shows workers flee wall of water as China warns second 'dam' has formed with 'high risk of breaching', sparking SECOND tsunami fears

Nepal's disaster agency said 823 people, including 579 tourists from Nepal and abroad, remained out of contact.

King Charles and Queen Camilla are 'heartbroken' by Nepal flash floods and say they 'feel deeply' for families awaiting news with 1,500 missing and at least 353 dead

At least 1,500 people remain missing along the Nepal-China border, including a 13-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy who are among at least 33 British nationals unaccounted for.

Scientists blame climate change for Nepal's flash flood - and warn similar events will become 'increasingly common as our climate changes'

While scientists are still studying the exact causes of the disaster, several experts say that climate change is to blame.

Tate brothers moan they're suffering from a poor diet and lack of privacy in prison as they battle to be released to fight extradition to the UK

The Tate brothers have complained about the poor diet and lack of privacy at a Miami jail, where they remain detained while fighting against extradition to the UK. Lawyers for Andrew, 39, and Tristan, 38, are asking a judge for them to be freed from custody at least until an extradition hearing can be held. They have remained in a federal detention centre in Miami since they were arrested on July 18 on rape and trafficking charges.

How Meta's seemingly unstoppable march to monetise children's unhealthy online habits took a historic - and $18billion - stumble

Claimants argued that Facebook and Instagram had purposefully fostered addiction in children and teenagers, spreading anxiety and depression.

We gave birth in our cars! These mothers' experiences are truly nerve-shredding... and this is why it's going to happen to even more women

This week, in a move that will horrify most parents-to-be, it emerged that classes are being offered for the kind of birth no mother ever wants - how to have a baby in a car or by the roadside.

What really happened between me and Amanda Abbington: GIOVANNI PERNICE reveals the inside story of the psychodrama that saw him axed from Strictly and left him suicidal... in part one of his searing memoir

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'I wonder which billionaire will pay their bills now': The signs that Meghan and Harry aren't as rich as they seem as insiders tell ALISON BOSHOFF about expensive hunt for a 'forever home'... and how much they really made in US

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How to make sure you get care-home funding and never have to sell your house: Maria won £510,000 to look after her mum. Here are the exact steps she took

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Doesn't Cindy's girl look just like her... er, dad? Kaia Gerber is the spitting image of her model mum after insisting she was 'born with her father's body'

Doesn't Cindy's girl look just like her... er, dad? Kaia Gerber is the image of her model

She has insisted that she inherited her body from her father, not her supermodel mother. But Kaia Gerber was the double of Cindy Crawford, 60, as she posed in a black cut-out bodysuit and flowery thigh-high boots for Givenchy's winter 2026 campaign. The pictures, taken in Croatia, are reminiscent of her supermodel mother's 1992 photo shoot, when she wore a black leotard for her Shape Of Your Body fitness video.

Canada's taxpayer-funded news service bans journalists from calling 9/11 'terror attacks'

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The inside story of how Liverpool signed Bradley Barcola, the £120m game-changer who 'ticks all the boxes' for Andoni Iraola: The PSG stand-off, beating Arsenal and why they aren't finished spending yet

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British woman describes horror when husband died after Singapore Airlines flight suffered extreme turbulence, leaving her with a fractured spine

A devastated British woman has described the horror of losing her husband and fracturing her spine after a Singapore Airlines flight suffered extreme turbulence.

The Crouches FIRST LOOK: Abbey and Peter's Prime Video documentary is confirmed as they share fears they'll 'reveal too much' in show set to rival The Kardashians

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