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Getty ImagesChild star Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of fentanyl, Xanax and several other drugs in her system, according to an autopsy completed by the Greenville County Coroner’s Office in South Carolina. The coroner’s office said Panettiere’s death was an accident and that no signs of trauma were discovered that would have contributed to her death. Panettiere died last month at the age of 36 after she was found unresponsive at a South Carolina residence. The star of US TV shows Heroes and Nashville had spoken openly about her struggles with substance abuse. Drugs at their fingertips, intense…
Oxfam PortobelloThe book has since been acquired by the British Library and will join its national collectionA rare first edition of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird has been found among items donated to Oxfam, according to the charity.The copy of Harper Lee’s seminal 1960 work was discovered in a box of American books given to the charity’s bookshop in Portobello Road, west London.It has since been acquired by the British Library and will join its national collection.Shop manager Olivia Haysman-Walker, who identified the copy as being a first US edition, said the book could easily have been missed. “There…
AFP via Getty ImagesDozens of police and commandos were deployed to the courtroom before the verdicts were announcedSri Lanka’s High Court has convicted 15 men who had been charged with plotting the 2019 Easter Sunday bomb attacks that killed 270 people and injured more than 500.Those found guilty include Naufer Moulavi, who prosecutors said masterminded the suicide bombings. Nine other men were acquitted.The co-ordinated blasts at three churches and three luxury hotels were the deadliest in Sri Lanka since the end of its civil war in 2009. Forty-five foreigners were among the dead.All the bombers who carried out the attacks…
Getty ImagesWells family had demanded answers about their son’s deathA grand jury will not bring criminal charges against anyone in the death of a Mississippi teenager, who was found dead two days after a boating trip with friends on 4 July.Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney hired by the family, had raised concerns that Nolan Wells, a black man, “ended up dead after going out on a boat with three young white men”, and that there had been conflicting witness statements.Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath said the grand jury indicated there was not enough evidence to charge someone…
BBCEarl Spencer talked about his memoir of Diana with the BBC’s Laura KuenssbergA slanging match doesn’t usually do either side much good. Unless you’re selling books, when a controversy can be extremely helpful.Earl Spencer’s book about his sister, Diana, has had six days of public accusations and counter-claims, with extensive news coverage.So perhaps it’s not surprising that even before it’s officially published, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister is racing up the Amazon best-seller chart. It’s likely to be the most significant royal book since Prince Harry’s startling 2023 memoir, Spare, and Andrew Lownie’s 2025 book Entitled, which doomed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s…
EPAFollowing a boycott by major television outlets, Trump’s comments at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday were streamed by the White House but were inaudibleMajor US television networks suspended their pooled coverage of President Donald Trump on Monday in response to CNN, Politico and MS NOW being barred from the White House.Trump announced the ban on Friday as he accused the organisations of writing “fiction or lies” about his administration. The companies said their reporters were denied access to the building on Saturday.The three US outlets have since said they will sue the Trump administration in a bid to “defend the…
ReutersScientists say they have discovered why the bacteria responsible for the UK’s worst outbreak of meningitis B in Kent earlier this year proved so dangerous.More than 20 young people, mostly students, were infected in the March outbreak, linked to a Canterbury nightclub. All needed hospital treatment, while nine ended up in intensive care and two died.Experts at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the University of Oxford, who have looked at the DNA of the bacterium, say it picked up some genetic material from other bugs found naturally in the throats of some people.This exchange created a new strain…
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EPAIran must “end its arming of and support” for the Houthis in Yemen, the foreign ministers of G7 nations have said in a joint statement.The G7 also condemned “in the strongest terms” Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, adding that the recent escalation in fighting against Saudi-backed forces in Yemen represented a threat to regional and global energy security.Thousands of refugees have fled Yemen in recent days after the Iran-backed group seized territory along the country’s Red Sea coastline, including near the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a critical shipping route for global trade.The statement comes ahead of the annual UN General Assembly…
Watch: Ukraine’s race to counter a new type of Russian droneRussian attacks on Ukraine are becoming even more devastating than before due to new jet-powered drones, which are much harder to shoot down.35 mins agoEurope