Five boys, all occupants of one of the vehicles, died and four people - including a child - were seriously injured in the collision on the M9 motorway, in Co Kildare, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Kamil Pustowski, Joe Carthy, Jeremy O'Brien, Alex McCarthy and Jack Kennedy, who are believed to be aged between 14 and 16, all died in the collision. The youths were travelling southbound on the northbound carriage way of the M9 when their allegedly stolen BMW smashed into the other car.

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A British national was facing a charge of 'attempted murder' in France today after allegedly raping and then stabbing a woman repeatedly in the neck during a frenzied attack

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The Kremlin has fired a top Russian banker for warning Vladimir Putin he was leading the country into 'social crisis' and a failure to gain victory in the Ukrainian conflict.

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A furious British man delayed a Ryanair flight for an hour after his wife was prevented from joining him on an overbooked at Treviso Airport in Italy.

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Police are investigation allegations that a tourism worker raped two British women on the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos.

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Donald Trump threatened to 'bomb the s***' out of a major US ally if it continues negotiations with Iran.

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A pregnant woman and her child have been killed in a triple shooting after two men opened fire at a Spanish holiday resort. Police have said the shooting could have been a revenge attack

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Beauty spots across Sardinia's coast are being overrun by a 'locust swarm' of tourist party boats, sparking fury from locals and conservationists. Yachts and party dinghies have been swarming the Mediterranean Sea surrounding the Italian island this summer, in particular the protected Maddalena National Park off Sardinia's northeast coast. Footage has emerged of the protected region, an archipelago made up of around 60 islands, packed with pleasure craft whose anchors are tearing up the sea bed.

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As Vladimir Putin continues to wage his war against Ukraine, the dictator is making it abundantly clear that Russia has the capability to breach European borders with its long-range suicide drones.

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Spanish police have said they are investigating 15 alleged sexual assaults, including one against a ten-year-old girl, in Ceuta amid growing fears over security in the enclave

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The American man, 30, was battling a yellow weather warning for severe thunderstorms in the Catania area.

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Cases of sharks biting humans are admittedly rare, but in the last year, at least three influencers have been attacked.

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As Europe continued to be ravaged by wildfires caused by hot, dry weather, Greek police said two bodies were found today on Salamina, west of Athens.

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President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to scale back its planned joint military exercises with South Korea.

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Iran announced a chilling cash prize for anyone who captures or kills American troops, and some can get double the reward as tensions remain high between the two countries amid the ongoing war.

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Video has emerged of Iranian morality police forcing a woman to cover up her bare legs as the Islamic Republic unleashes a new crackdown on 'violations of Islamic norms'. Footage captured in the Iranian city of Amol, in northern Iran, shows a female officer from the notorious morality police confronting a young woman sitting at a bus stop. The officer scolds her for not covering her legs up: 'What you're doing is disgraceful. Even in Turkey, you couldn't go out dressed like this. Stand up, please. Get up and leave.'

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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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'Women are not safe anywhere': Inside 'rape fantasy' chat rooms where men expose footage of family members - even their own sisters or mothers - to equally perverted strangers

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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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