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Canings for adults and lethal force for violent home invaders?

Australian shoppers have discovered a 'hidden gem' discount retailer where you can find designer buys from brands like Fendi, Dior, and Aje for affordable prices.

Dawn had just broken and the two young children were still wearing their orange onesie pyjamas when their mother beckoned them into the field beside their house. Ordinarily, five-year-old Boaz van Roekel and his sister Febe, four, would have been greeted with a friendly lick from their older sibling's pet pony, Blackie. That morning, however, these innocents were horrifically awoken to the savagery now lurking in rural Holland. Like thousands more animals - sheep, cattle, horses, and even pet dogs and rabbits - Blackie had fallen prey to a wolf: one of a rapidly increasing number to have ­colonised this small, overcrowded country, spreading fear and mayhem.

On Wednesday, Kentucky State Police responded to a report of a dismembered body found by a man working on the property of a Robertson County home, according to a police statement. After a 12-hour standoff, police arrested 32-year-old Torilena May Fields, who had barricaded herself in her Mount Olivet home. Although police have not confirmed the identity of the body, several news outlets reported the victim to be her mother, 68-year-old Trudy Fields.

The court heard Petra Shasha (pictured) first formed a bond with the St Edmunds College student while working as a pre-service teacher for three weeks at the school in late 2020.

A father from South Carolina's two-hour drive to his daughter's wedding turned into a treacherous 30-mile walk through flood debris left behind by Hurricane Helene.

Tennessee resident Jeffrey Fuller livestreamed his home being torn up by flooding on Facebook, after Hurricane Helene ripped through the area and left a trail of destruction. The homeowner, Jeffrey Fuller, live-streamed the hurricane tearing through his property on Facebook.

Helene, which has since weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, has killed at least 55 people across five states as it battered the South with record storm surges and a tornado. Helene is primarily hovering over Tennessee and Kentucky, but is causing flooding and power outages in states across the South and Midwest. The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to dissipate 'today into tomorrow.'

Picture this: you're alone in a dark forest, heart pounding, as footsteps echo in the shadows. Would you rather see a man emerge from the trees - or a grizzly bear? It might seem like an absurd question - after all, a bear could rip you to shreds in minutes - but it's one that has sparked a viral debate among young women on TikTok. In one clip, viewed more than 17 million times, an ­interviewer poses the question to eight women. Seven answer, with little hesitation, the bear.

Even after 23 years, her memories of the brutal sex attack remained undimmed. The slightest smell of chemicals or glint of a kitchen knife could take her back to the apartment where she was ravaged and trigger a crippling panic attack. Now 'Marion', as she wishes to be called, had been brought face to face with the monster. The man who held a box-cutter to her throat, sedated her with an ether-soaked gag and tore off her clothes. Yet, there were no tears when she saw Dominique Pelicot again after almost a quarter of a century. She was in such a heightened state of tension that she couldn't even weep.

With breathtaking insouciance, the so-called Monster of Mazan offered this reason yesterday in court when explaining why he committed the ultimate act of betrayal. During his working life - as an electrician and an estate agent - he always had his 'nose to the grindstone', he said, but after he retired, at 60, he felt 'utterly idle' and began visiting the perverted internet chatrooms where he got the idea for his twisted plan. On one of these forays online, some 13 years ago, a male nurse had posted a compromising picture of his unconscious wife and boasted of drugging her for sex, while also describing the type of tranquillisers he used and the most effective dosage.

About one in ten British students who enrol at university drop out by the end of their first year. Each dropout represents both huge disappointment and a waste of time for the student and a waste of funding and teaching resources for cash-strapped universities. But which universities offer students the best chance of making it through to graduation? And where should you perhaps take the prospectus promises with a pinch of salt?

In her latest stunt, Tash Peterson filmed encounters of people coming up to her and expressing their strong opinions about her, unaware that she was the one they were talking about.

Doubtless hoping to curry favour at his trial, the husband who drugged his wife for strangers to rape was all too eager to co-operate with the police after his arrest. Firstly, Dominique Pelicot helped them track down 50 of the men whom he sneaked into the house to violate the sleeping Gisele and gave damning evidence against them.

Model Tess Shanahan and her multi-millionaire Bondi Sands co-founding husband have welcomed their firstborn child, little Romee.

The semi-clad activist protested in a bloodied stunt outside of David Jones on Hay Street in Perth 's CBD, on Monday in a joint protest with animal rights organisation PETA

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By her own description she had always been 'a prude' and had only allowed two men to touch her - one of whom was her husband, sitting, shamefaced, to her left in the dock. Yesterday, however, Gisele Pelicot (Pictured, main and to-left) stood amid a sea of previously faceless men, all of whom had allegedly raped her while she slept, and calmly confronted them with the anguish they had caused her. In a 90-minute testimony, praised by the chief prosecutor as 'dignified and courageous', the 71-year-old grandmother said: 'I was sacrificed on the altar of vice'. The court had heard how her husband Dominique Pelicot, 71, (pictured, top-right) drugged her to be raped by 50 men at their house in Mazan (pictured, bottom-right). Her demeanour contrasted with that of her daughter, Caroline Darian, now in her 40s, (pictured, bottom-right) who wept softly throughout her mother's long statement.

Are Oxford and Cambridge really better than every other British university? How do the likes of Leeds, Manchester and Bristol compare? And what about up-and-coming institutions such as the University of Leicester? Today, we publish The Mail University Guide rankings for 2025 - and there are some big surprises in the results. Our guide is the most comprehensive, broadly based, in-depth analysis of the UK's leading universities you'll find. The Mail ranking is based on recent performance data in areas such as teaching and research, as well as the views of the 346,000 final-year students. Plus, we've crunched the numbers to identify universities where students stand the best chance of getting a high-skilled job when they graduate, the salaries they will earn (useful for paying off that student loan) and whether they feel, 15 months after leaving, that their careers are on track.

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As British tourists marvelled yesterday at the holy sites in Avignon, the so-called City of Popes, I sat in a ­stifling courtroom beside the ­historic ramparts and watched an ageing woman being dragged through the bowels of hell. For four torturous years, since police swooped on her country home, Gisele Pelicot has been tormented by an unbearable truth. That for the final ten years of a seemingly idyllic marriage, her husband, Dominique, had been slipping sleeping pills into her evening meals, then inviting strangers to allegedly rape her - in full view of his video camera - as she lay unconscious. This appalling revelation caused her to suffer a total mental breakdown and drove her to the brink of suicide. So how can we begin to imagine the dark thoughts that ran through this middle-class, 71-year-old grandmother's mind yesterday, when for the first time she set eyes on the 50 men accused of violating her as she lay sleeping?

Megan Gale has announced her return to the spotlight. The Australian model, 49, has re-signed as an ambassador for David Jones, marking her triumphant return to the iconic department store. Gale, who first signed with David Jones in 2001 and held the role until 2013, has rejoined the brand in a multi-year deal.

Sir Keir Starmer left the door open to the return of free movement for under-30s yesterday as he launched a bid to 'reset' Britain's relationship with Europe. On a visit to Berlin, the Prime Minister promised a 'bright new future' between the United Kingdom and Germany, with closer ties designed to boost trade between the two countries. But while insisting he is not 'reversing Brexit', Sir Keir refused to rule out introducing a 'backpackers and baristas' scheme allowing 18- to 30-year-olds from across the EU to move to the UK for work, travel or study for a number of years. It is a key demand of European allies in exchange for a closer trading relationship, leading to accusations from critics that Sir Keir will undo the terms of the Brexit agreement.

A mom was caught on video 'repeatedly beating' her three-year-old daughter with a clothes hanger while threatening to 'eliminate' her. Aaliyah Shantrelle Herring, 25, from Miami Gardens Florida is now facing two child abuse-related charges and was arrested on Monday. The alleged incident occurred while Herring was on Facetime to her ex-partner, David Jones, who is the child's father. The conversation quickly turned violent prompting Mr Jones to start screen-recording the video call.