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Families call for more recognition of gambling in inquests
Meghan OwenWork and money correspondent, BBC London BBC Natalie Ashbolt believes the system failed her cousin Lee Adams and is in need of reform The family of a man who say he took his own life after placing more than 600 bets in an hour have told the BBC that his inquest was a “battle” from beginning to end, as…
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10 Mystery Movie Masterpieces So Great They Became the Blueprint
Most movie genres today have set formulas, established frameworks that stories evolve and develop within, ultimately being defined by how they utilize and subvert set tropes within the genre. This is especially true of mystery cinema. While the allure of a perplexing puzzle is always appealing, many movies within the genre are derivative of what has come before them, playing…
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Family battles ACC over claim acne drug gave teen severe OCD
Nine years ago, Harry was a typical teenager who played the piano, excelled at school and was, by his father’s reckoning, ‘everything he could hope for in a son’. But, he also had acne and started on a course of Isotretinoin to get rid of it. It was a decision that his family claims has drastically and perhaps irreversibly altered his…
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Trump’s Venezuela, Greenland Threats Make Canada Fear It’s Next
Photographer: Dominic Gwinn/AFP/Getty Images (Bloomberg) — For months, many Canadians hoped Donald Trump had lost interest in making their country the 51st US state — his plate full with turning Washington and the global trading system upside down. Those hopes are fading. Most Read from Bloomberg The shock capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Trump’s ramped-up talk of seizing Greenland have rattled Canada,…
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Video game bosses with two health bars are good, actually
It’s probably happened to you: After bashing your head against a particularly difficult boss in a video game, you realize you’ve been duped. As you watch that boss’ depleted health bar fill up again, you realize what you thought was a victory was instead an insult. Welcome to phase two of the battle you believed you’ve just won. These moments…
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Junior hockey coach held for sexually assaulting girl in Haryana
Representational image Rewari: A junior hockey coach has been arrested here for allegedly raping and impregnating a minor girl, police said. The class 12 student from a village in Rewari district filed a complaint of rape at Khol police station on Friday, January 9. The girl said she played hockey and alleged that about four months ago, a junior coach…
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UP man held for killing toddler son, throwing body into Yamuna
Banda: Police have arrested a man for allegedly killing his one-and-a-half-year-old son and dumping the body in the Yamuna River, officials said on Saturday, January, 10. Circle Officer (Sadar) Rajveer Singh Gaur said a woman living at her parental home in Pachkauri village lodged an FIR on January 7, alleging that her husband Rajendra took away their son Kartik on…
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10 Movie Masterpieces That Feel Like a Nightmare
Being scared in real life isn’t much fun, for obvious reasons, and neither are most nightmares, unless they’re not too bad. Because the ones that aren’t too bad provide relief when you wake up, though the ones that are bad linger in your mind, even after you’ve told yourself it was just a (bad) dream. Horror and being scared by…
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Altadena’s fire diaspora: Why some families left after the Eaton Fire
After the fires, some survivors made the decision to leave … for good Uneasy decisions characterize the year after the January fires. Host Josie Huang talks to some people who made the hard choice to leave Los Angeles for good. Jennifer Cacicio didn’t set out to move across the country. Like thousands of others who fled the L.A. fires a…
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Massive Sargassum Surge Hits Top Mexican Beach Destinations In Rare Winter Event
Share The Article For years, the unspoken deal between travelers and the Caribbean was simple: You pay double (or triple) the price to visit in January, and in exchange, you get perfect, pristine, electric-blue water. You pay the premium to avoid seaweed. That deal just got broken. In a rare and alarming weather anomaly, a massive invasion of Sargassum has…
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