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Wild bear cub ripped out of tree so people could get photos holding it
Footage shows a woman stomping her feet in excitement while gripping the terrified cub in her hands before getting photographed with it.
Girl, 10, ends up in hospital after trying sour sweet called ‘Black Death’
The sweet became lodged in her throat and burnt it.
BBC presenter 'threatened' as she filmed thug shouting racist abuse on London train
She shared footage of a man shouting racist slurs on a busy train
Paris on lockdown after man threatens to detonate ‘explosive belt’
A man threatened to blow himself up at the Iranian consulate in Paris.
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The ‘warzone’ town where teen gangs throw eggs at houses and go on ‘joyrides’
Police have been called in to patrol local buses after several were vandalised by teen gangs who residents say now 'rule the area'.
Squatters leave Gordon Ramsay pub after being evicted
At least six ‘professional squatters’ entered the pub early last week
Man arrested after Rijkaard Salu Siafa stabbed to death in Croydon
Rijkaard Salu Siafa’s death has ‘has ripped an irreparable hole’ in his family, police say
Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall: Passengers who play music out loud should be thrown off the Tube
Crackdown would also target people making calls on speakerphone and ‘disruptive filming’ by influencers
Gang members who carried out string of terrifying shootings in Hackney jailed
Three brothers among those convicted of extreme violence in their role in a drug operation
Is this your fart sensor? Uber reveals most surprising objects left in its cars
Oh, and a live turtle.
Boys aged 11 and 12 ordered to pay just £200 for killing 20 animals
The pair narrowly avoided jail time for the horrific killing spree.
Man hurls racist abuse at train passengers and ‘threatens woman who filmed him’
A passenger branded the man 'embarrassing' after he yelled 'this is England' and called people 'foreign c***s'.
Byron Society looking to move secluded statue to Hyde Park on 200th anniversary of poet's death
Byron Society needs to raise more than £300,000 to move the statue and feel government should help
Family of geese hold up London commuter trains after waddling onto train tracks
Commuters faced travel disruption in south-west London on Friday morning after a family of geese wandering onto the tracks brought trains to a standstill.
Tributes as Standard City ace Chris Locke dies at 66
Locke first joined the Evening Standard in 1992 and served a total of 11 editors
Maps reveal the devastation a nuclear strike would cause in the UK and US
The fallout is huge.
Man wrongly jailed for 17 years over rape says apology is ‘too little, too late’
The 58-year-old's 2003 conviction was quashed last summer.
London mayoral election poll shows Susan Hall closing gap on Sadiq Khan as City Hall race hots up
Exclusive YouGov survey puts Tory contender on 27 per cent and her Labour rival on 46 per cent
Children used as ‘lab rats’ in clinical trials which gave them hep C and HIV
The infected blood scandal has been described as 'the worst treatment disaster in NHS history'.