Washington: When Joe Biden delivered his inaugural address outside the Capitol on a frosty day in January, he declared that America faced a “winter of peril and possibility”. “Few periods in our nation’s history have been more challenging or difficult than the one we’re in now,” Biden said. Just a fortnight earlier, furious supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol […]

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AT LEAST 28 people have died and 50 people injured in a crush at a religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, local media reports. Multiple casualties and fatalities were reported after a metal grandstand platform collapsed at the overcrowded celebration of the Jewish festival Lag B'Omer in Meron. The Times of Israel has reported the dozens of fatalities in […]

‘Several people feared dead and dozens more injured as stand holding hundreds of worshippers collapses’ during celebration of Jewish festival Lag B’Omer in northern Israel ‘Several people are feared dead and dozens more injured’ as a stand holding hundreds of worshippers collapsed during a celebration of the Jewish festival Lag B’Omer in northern Israel.  Multiple casualties and fatalities have been […]

A daughter holding her mother’s hand. A son overcome that his 95-year-old mother had survived the pandemic. A stoic family patriarch, suddenly in tears. After a year of excruciating lockdowns, these were the scenes at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities as they began to open up this spring. Before the arrival of vaccines, one in three coronavirus deaths […]

Heartbreaking moment a terminally ill teenager tells his distraught family he wants to die before he takes his own life in front of them – here’s why the video may have saved his parents from jail Terminally-ill teen made video revealing plans to end his life in January 2017  ‘This is tough for everybody but I refuse to go through […]

Thousands of EU bar and café workers reject old UK jobs: Hospitality sector in crisis as 15% of furloughed staff refuse to return after staying in home nation or taking better-paid new role Restaurant bosses are being hampered in search for staff ahead of indoor hospitality reopening on May 17 There is uncertainty over restrictions being lifted and they have […]

This is the shocking moment a man drops 12 stories to his death, seconds after his influencer girlfriend did the same in a potential murder-suicide. The horrific incident involving Dagner Rojas and Sarah Arauco was filmed by witnesses in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia on Tuesday April 27. In the video the pair were both seen falling separately from […]

The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox Prince William looks "relieved" to have found his "perfect match" in his wife Kate in their new 10th anniversary portraits, according to a body language expert. The couple released a series of pictures showing them as a couple on their tenth wedding […]