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A woman has succumbed to injuries sustained during a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, last month, raising the death toll to six.

A powerful winter storm has claimed at least five lives across the United States, bringing widespread school closures, travel disruptions, and significant power outages.

A New year’s Budget blow for Prime Minister Keir Starmer as retailers have issued a warning of the impact of the budget with price hikes and job cuts. Retailers will be particularly hard hit by chancellor Rachel Reeves’s planned hike to employers’ national insurance. Retailers warn of price hikes and job cuts The British Retail Consortium and global accounting firm KPMG said costs are projected to eclipse sales growth this year, forcing traders to pass higher prices onto consumers. BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said the crucial quarter between October and the end of December had “failed to give 2024 the send-off retailers…

At least 53 people have been confirmed dead and 62 injured after a powerful earthquake struck Tibet’s mountainous region on Tuesday morning, according to Chinese state media.

The ongoing spat between the prime minister and Elon Musk continues to dominate the UK news cycle this Tuesday morning. 

Here are the key developments in the Russia-Ukraine war latest News on the 1,068th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. European leaders are holding their breath to see what President Trump will do for Ukraine as President Putin has suggested he would be open to talks with US president. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said allies should work towards determining a format for potential peace talks with Russia, reiterating that only talks involving Kyiv could bring about a sustainable peace. Russia-Ukraine war latest News In the meantime, politically NATO allies are continuing to build diplomatic pressure on Russia, globally, which does…

Labour to crack down on deepfakes and sharing of illicit intimate images Ministers are to crack down on sexually explicit deepfake images, as the practice will become a criminal offence. Those who take intimate images of other people without their consent, or who install equipment to take these pictures, could meanwhile face up to two years behind bars under new offences. Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones said perpetrators of the new offences would “face the full force of the law”. Labour to crack down on deepfakes and sharing of illicit intimate images https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-crackdown-sexually-explicit-deepfake-images-b2674818.html

This is the moment fed-up commuters helped undercover police officers catch an alleged pick-pocketer on the London Underground. Footage shows a man being arrested on suspicion of pickpocketing as angry Londoners shout on the Northern Line platform at Leicester Square station. A plain-clothed police officers can be soon pushing the suspect against a wall. One woman in a white coat shouts: ‘I want to punch you. No one cares.’ She can be heard shouting to the man to ‘f*** off’ while holding him as he is placed under arrest. But was so enraged she warned by the officer to back…

A Metropolitan Police officer has admitted causing death by careless driving after knocking a rider off his moped. Constable Ian Brotherton was driving at 47mph in a 30mph zone in Enfield, north London, in October 2023 as he responded to an emergency call with the car’s lights and sirens on. He drove through a red light in Southbury Road and collided with 26-year-old moped rider Cristopher De Carvalho Guedes, who was turning right into Baird Road. Cristopher was taken to hospital, but he died the next day. Brotherton was charged after an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct…

One of the prisoners behind the savage attack with a tuna can lid on Sara Sharif’s father has been unmasked as the killer of Sarah Mayhew, it has been alleged. Urfan Sharif, who is serving a life sentence in the high-security prison HMP Belmarsh for the murder of the little girl, was battered and sliced by fellow inmates in a cell on New Year’s Day. Sharif reportedly suffered cuts to his face, and it is alleged that he received medical treatment inside the in london prison. Steve Sansom, who murdered Sarah Mayhew in 2024 before scattering her body parts around…