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Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez announced she would resign her leadership position after an audio clip of her making racist comments circulated online (Picture: Getty Images) The president of the Los Angeles City Council resigned after an audio recording of her making racist comments about another council member’s son leaked. City Councilmember Nury Martinez stepped down from her post as president on Monday after the audio recording was published by the Los Angeles Times the night before. It was not clear whether Martinez would also resign from her seat on the council. The recording was from an October…

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​British spy agency director to say in rare public address that Ukraine is ‘turning the tide’ against RussiaVladimir Putin has made strategic errors in his pursuit of the war in Ukraine partly because there are so few restraints on his leadership, the head of the British spy agency GCHQ will say in a speech on Tuesday.Russia’s soldiers are running out of supplies and munitions and initial gains made by Moscow are being reversed, Jeremy Fleming is expected to add in a rare public address. Continue reading… 

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Katie Piper’s attacker Stefan Sylvestre was recalled to prison (Picture: Getty Images/Met Police) The man who attacked Katie Piper with acid in 2008 fled the UK in August, police have said, as they warn people to stay away from him after he was recalled to prison. Stefan Sylvestre, who was an accomplice of Piper’s ex-boyfriend, attacked the TV presenter in 2008, throwing sulphuric acid in her face and leaving her with severe burns and blind in one eye.  Piper, 38, almost lost her life and spent agonising months in intensive care, undergoing multiple surgeries for facial disfigurement, some of which are ongoing…

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Dennis Peek (right) was fired from a Wendy’s restaurant in Stanley, North Carolina, apparently for being ‘unable to perform the duties’ that a normal person could on the job (Picture: Getty Images/Twitter) A man with down syndrome who worked for a Wendy’s restaurant for 20 years was fired from the job he dreamed of retiring from. Dennis Peek was terminated from the fast food chain’s location in Stanley, North Carolina, because he was ‘unable to perform the duties of a normal persons job’, his sister Cona Young Turner shared on Facebook. ‘My brother Dennis has worked at Wendy’s in Stanley…

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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Two people were rescued by the Coast Guard while fending off sharks after a fishing boat sank in the Gulf of Mexico. Three lucky fishermen were rescued on Sunday roughly 25 miles south of the small town of Empire, Louisiana. Two of them were set upon by sharks when the Coast Guard arrived. Family members reported the men missing when they failed to return home from a fishing trip on Saturday. The Coast Guard initiated a search of an area of 1250…

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