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Woman goes on trial in Australia accused of poisonous mushrooms murders

Erin Patterson, 50, denies murdering her estranged husband’s parents and an aunt and attempting to murder an uncle with poisonous mushrooms.

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Trump marks first 100 days in office focused on grudges and grievances

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Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney

Canadian prime minister’s Liberals fall short of a majority in Parliament

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Harvey Weinstein in state court in Manhattan

First accuser gives evidence in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial

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President Donald Trump

Trump secures future of Michigan air base with new fighter jet announcement

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Doug Emhoff

Trump dismisses Biden nominees to Holocaust Memorial Council

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A Starbucks 3D-printed store

Starbucks’ new Texas drive-thru is coffee giant’s first 3D-printed store in US

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Paramedic Asaad Al-Nsasrah after his release

Israel releases Gaza medic detained since troops killed 15 rescue workers

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An Amazon truck

Amazon not planning to show added tariff costs next to online product listings

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Passengers crowding Sants station in Barcelona

Power returns to Spain and Portugal as outage cause remains a mystery

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The truck involved in a ramming attack in New Orleans seen from above

Iraq detains IS suspect accused of helping to incite New Orleans ramming attack

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Police at the scene after a shooting incident, at Vaksala Square, in central Uppsala, Sweden

Three people killed in shooting, say Swedish police

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Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman

Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus – post-mortem examination

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Donald Trump holding up an executive order

Numbers that matter from first 100 days of Trump’s second term

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni shaking hands

Turkey and Italy strengthen ties with trade and defence agreements

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Spain Blackout

Spain recovers nearly all of power grid following major blackout

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Donald Trump

Trump marks his first 100 days in office with rally in Michigan

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Quilts on display

Quilts created during Covid pandemic to be celebrated in new exhibition

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Mike Ellicock in a rowing boat

Ex-Parachute Regiment officer begins 2,000-mile solo row around Great Britain

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Aston Martin limits imports to US over new tariffs

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General view of Barclays Bank’s UK headquarters, in Canary Wharf, London

Barclays sees profits jump despite rise in bad debt provisions amid US concerns

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Estate agents' boards

Average UK house price dips by 0.6% month-on-month as stamp duty deadline passes

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2025 local elections

Estimated declaration times for May 1 local and mayoral elections

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Stephen Lappin smiling while holding a defibrillator

Runner who had cardiac arrest at race to compete in same event a year later

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Blues and Villa fans spotted at WWE

Aston Villa and Birmingham City fans spotted at WWE 'every week' - leaving fans flabbergasted

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CCTV shows Shane O'Malley and an accomplice raiding Hansons Auctioneers building in Derbyshire

BBC Bargain Hunt star Charles Hanson's auction house targeted by hammer-wielding ram-raid crook in £21,000 raid

Mackintosh at the Willow

Glasgow tearoom hosting talks on enduring relationship with ‘now-humble’ cuppa

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Ireland’s ‘best contemporary art’ to be showcased at Dublin fair

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Lisa Wright and Valerie Jack

Woman who gave kidney to friend urges Scots to consider donation

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Erin Patterson

Woman goes on trial in Australia accused of poisonous mushrooms murders

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Trump

Trump marks first 100 days in office focused on grudges and grievances

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Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney

Canadian prime minister’s Liberals fall short of a majority in Parliament

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Harvey Weinstein in state court in Manhattan

First accuser gives evidence in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial

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President Donald Trump

Trump secures future of Michigan air base with new fighter jet announcement

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Doug Emhoff

Trump dismisses Biden nominees to Holocaust Memorial Council

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