Holidaymakers looked on in amazement as their day at the beach next to the famous La Manga Club on Spain's Costa Calida was interrupted by the arrival of a packed migrant boat. The men on board could be heard cheering as they reached the shore, while stunned sunseekers gathered up their belongings and moved away from the water's edge. At least one woman could be seen fearfully covering herself up as the men jumped into the sea and swam the last few metres to the sand after their journey across the Mediterranean.

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An academic who made plagiarism allegations against Professor Jason Arday before his death has been suspended by a university.

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Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have bought an Irish castle and are 'excited' about the historic home, a spokesman for the businessman said in a statement Thursday.

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Australian police have come under fire after telling the family of a missing teenager that they had found her - only to be given the devastating truth 18 minutes later.

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Donald Trump said he was launching a major new campaign to target Iran's economy, threatening 'tremendous' punishment on any country that helps or does business with the Islamic republic.

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At least 12 people were killed and dozens were injured after a Russian missile barrage overnight blasted a children's hospital and hit civilian targets in Kyiv.

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At least 500 migrant girls will be moved from the North African enclave of Ceuta to mainland Spain following reports of sexual assault.

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A passenger plane carrying nearly 300 people struck its tail as it took off from Munich airport in an incident that was described as a 'near disaster'. Footage showed the tumultuous departure of the Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787 on Saturday. A cloud of dust was thrown into the air as the tail hit the ground. Inside the cabin, a loud scraping noise was heard as the plane, which was carrying 271 passengers and 16 crew, lifted off the runway.

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Roads in an Italian tourist town have turned to rivers after it was hit by flash floods, as the whole of Europe braces for storms following a brutal set of heatwaves. Footage from the quaint town of Chiavari, around 25 miles east of Genoa, showed scores of cars making their way through deep water that has beset the town. The water was so deep that the grilles of many cars were submerged. Cars that powered through the flood sent waves of water out around them.

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The helicopter crash which killed a British newlywed couple on their Greek honeymoon was caused by a mechanical failure, authorities have said.

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Prince Laurent of Belgium's illegitimate son has officially earned a royal title - after he publicly admitted to fathering a secret child with an 80s pop singer.

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The waterway, which runs across ten countries from southern Germany to the Black Sea, is in the grip of an intense dry spell and has revealed a number of relics as a result.

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Gold-medal-winning sprinter and coach Leon Baptiste mysteriously vanished two months ago following a trip to Morocco.

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The group were in Gatlinburg, Tennessee , when they discovered a huge bear trapped inside their SUV on Tuesday.

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Patrikarakos, who has been speaking to Western intelligence sources, set out the three theories circulating about Mojtaba's whereabouts.

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Four people were whipped 100 times each for adultery under Sharia law in Indonesia, in a caning so severe even the flogger was seen offering support to one woman. The four were among 11 people publicly punished at Bustanul Salatin Park in Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's deeply conservative Aceh province, on Thursday. They had been found guilty of zina, or illicit sexual intercourse, under the province's Qanun Jinayat Islamic criminal code and were each sentenced to 100 lashes.

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A bereft Kyiv grandmother is seen as her grandson's body is removed from a block of flats struck by a Vladimir Putin missile. The barbaric attack came today as 15 were killed, and 40 wounded, in one of the fiercest bombardments of the war. The wailing Russian-speaking pensioner had to be held back from trying to get inside to look for her grandson.

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Hayden Panettiere's mother has revealed new details about the investigation into the actress' shock death at 36 from a suspected overdose.

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Ukraine's ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell address on Tuesday, arguing the nation faced a crisis of governance.

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Portugal has banned the use of full-face veils under a so-called 'burqa law' that the government says will protect 'human identity.'

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The 54-year-old collapsed in the car park of a New World supermarket in Orewa, in Auckland, New Zealand, on July 26.

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Snezhana Korolyova, 29, was on a romantic camping trip with her partner in the Altai Mountains of Russia.

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A teenage girl has spent nearly two years in a Taliban prison, at times suffering torture, after she refused to marry an elderly local commander.

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This is the hair-raising moment one of Spain's top matadors was gored through the testicle during a bullfight. Footage shows the huge animal tossing David Fandila onto its horns and sending him into a somersault before being coaxed away by another matador. The crowd at Baeza bullring in Jaén can be heard gasping as the wounded matador glances down at his groin, assessing the damage.

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Locked up like an animal in cage...forced to witness rape and slaughter...tortured until they prayed for death: October 7 hostages' most horrifying accounts yet of what they endured at the hands of Hamas

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Heartbreaking final moments of 'Sleeping Beauty of Everest' who begged climber 'don't leave me here to die' before her body froze in time in mountain 'death zone'

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Ainhoa Caballero Medina has requested to be euthanised in Spain after she says an attempted murder by her ex-boyfriend.

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The women raped by the Taliban: Victims describe horrific sexual abuse at the hands of multiple men as punishment for getting a job or posting on social media

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Inside South Africa's whites-only enclave where young people are flocking after deciding 'it's not so wonderful elsewhere' and it's nicer to be 'the majority'

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The underground movement has emerged from the shadows under the public representation of Igor Volobuev, a former banking executive who defected to Ukraine.

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How Iran's ruthless enforcers use rape to crush dissent: Brutal sex attacks on victims as young as 12 used to strike fear into protesters, rights groups reveal

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Stripped, electrocuted and forced to fight each other to the death on camera: New evidence shows how Putin's commanders are torturing their own men

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In the summer of 1974, an all-women group of eight climbers set off to scale one of the Soviet Union's highest peaks - only for them all to perish in a -40C blizzard.

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Inside Putin's horrific torture gulags where inmates are gassed in 'elephant masks', used as 'human furniture' and forced to endure 'Putin's phone'

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Secrets of Kim Jong Un's sexual 'Pleasure Squad': Women and girls hand-picked to 'satisfy' North Korean leaders so a young virgin's life force can be absorbed during sex

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Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) frontman Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 59, was eliminated on Sunday in a joint Mexican military and US-backed operation in Tapalpa.

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How animals have been used for espionage from Hvaldimir the roving Russian whale to American 'bat bombs' and a 'spy squirrel' unit caught behind enemy lines

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Sadistic human experiments inside Japan's notorious WW2 Unit 731 where PoWs were infected with plague, raped and buried alive are brought to life in ultra-violent Chinese movie

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Over the span of 41 days, the high school student was abducted by four teenage boys aged between 16 to 18, subjected to unimaginable abuse, repeatedly raped and ultimately murdered.

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The girl who gave birth aged FIVE: Incredible mystery of the child who became the world's youngest ever mother

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Sun, sea and smugglers: The scourge of narco gangs delivering drug shipments on Spain's tourist beaches in full view of holidaying families

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The shocking scene was captured in a picture titled The Vulture and the Little Girl - although the child was later revealed to be a young boy - by South African photographer Kevin Carter in 1993.

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How AK-47-wielding ISIS fanatics turned Bataclan theatre into a 'slaughter house' as Paris marks 10-year anniversary of massacre that left 90 dead and shocked the world

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The Christian who threw himself to the lions - and somehow survived: Moment man who believed he was Biblical character Daniel is mauled while trying to 'convert' big cats in their zoo enclosure

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Deep inside Russia 's military machine, the tyrant is quietly assembling an arsenal designed not to win a war in Europe, but to decimate whole nations at the push of a button.

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Inside the whites-only town where new arrivals are strictly vetted and residents deny being racist

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Inside China's execution conveyor belt: How 'mobile injection vans and firing squads are used to put thousands to death a year' - outstripping capital punishment figures for the rest of the world combined

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Local police have often explained the deaths as accidents or suicides, but many cases appear suspicious to family members of the deceased, and are often left insufficiently investigated.

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The bloodthirsty gangs ravaging Brit backpacking mecca including 'Los Killers' cartel led by mass murderer and his glamorous girlfriend - as three women are tortured to death on live-stream

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The bloodthirsty terror tactics of Mexico's cartels: How ruthless drug gangs punish their enemies and spread fear from mass beheadings to CANNIBALISM - after nine students were found with hands hacked off

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The coastal nation has seen murder rates soar in recent years as drug lords and criminal masterminds dug their hooks into fresh territory and exploited its ports for maximum profit

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Putin's secret space weapon: Kremlin's mysterious Cosmos 2553 satellite 'is fitted with dummy warhead' in 'forerunner to nuke that could wipe out rival spacecraft and cause chaos on Earth'

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People who have come back from the dead... and what they say is waiting for us on the other side

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The melting of Arctic ice opens up a massive new frontier, unlocking a treasure trove of previously untapped natural resources, new trade routes, and strategic superiority

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How a baseless internet rumour has forced Brigitte Macron to prove she is a woman in a US court: Astonishing full story that led to French president's wife facing Candace Owens

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The humbling of Macron: From getting slapped by his wife, and egged by the public to dwarf comparisons and a snub by Trump - all the times the French president was brought back down to earth

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Brits Abroad has long been shorthand for chaos, from nightclub beatdowns and brawls over sun loungers to rape and murder charges at tourist hotspots around the world.

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Un-believable! The Western influencers making a living by telling the world how wonderful North Korea is (maybe someone should tell them Kim Jong Un executes people who try to leave)

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Majorca counts the cost of rejecting tourists: Restaurants and bars say their season has been devastated after UK families took their cash elsewhere in wake of anti-tourist protests

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The lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, a two-year-old Syrian boy, was found washed up on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, his red T-shirt and blue shorts soaked in seawater.

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Inside horrifying paedophile sect run by one-eyed Nazi colonel in German-style Chilean village where children were tortured and abused... and which is now a tourist hotspot

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From 1911 to 1929, dozens of women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and even children.

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