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Five men accused of driving a hearse on to a football pitch during a half-time stunt in Gateshead will stand trial next year after denying all the charges against them. The incident happened at Dunston UTS Football Club on July 21 2023, during a pre-season friendly against Gateshead. A Subaru and the hearse were driven in circles on the pitch before masked men emerged from the funeral vehicle and scattered leaflets. The hearse was then abandoned on the turf and the match had to be called off. The leaflets contained serious allegations against two individuals, although the claims have not…

Miley Cyrus helped a fan with stage 3 breast cancer shave her head before she began chemotherapy, after the pair met around the singer’s Hollywood Bowl shows in Los Angeles. Cash Jacobs, a TikTok creator, attended the first night of Cyrus’s concert last week. Before the performance, she posted a video asking the singer to help shave her head, saying it was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Cash said she planned to wear a wig because she felt self-conscious about her thinning hair. She added that, if Cyrus called her name during the show, she would remove the wig and wave…

A former Walker County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested in Georgia after investigators alleged he accessed criminal-history records without authorisation and distributed body-camera footage and photographs from active cases. Amadou Diaw, 33, of LaFayette, was arrested on 22 October and booked into Walker County Jail, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). He faces charges including unauthorised disclosure of criminal-history record information, computer theft, computer trespass, violation of oath of office and misdemeanour obstruction. The investigation began on 30 September, when the Walker County Sheriff’s Office asked the GBI to examine allegations that Diaw had misused the Georgia Crime…

A seven-month-old quokka named Quiche has made her debut outside her mother’s pouch at Sydney Zoo, where she is now voluntarily joining the attraction’s Quokka Encounters. Quiche first emerged from her mother Quinoa’s pouch at the end of September. She had already become familiar with visitors, regularly poking her head out while Quinoa took part in the encounters. Kelly Davis, Sydney Zoo’s native animals care manager, said the young quokka had quickly grown in confidence. “She’s very sweet. She’s very confident … She’s a daddy’s girl. She loves to hang around with Quinton,” Ms Davis said. Quiche has also shown…

The family of Allan Tucker II has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Alexandria and two police officers, alleging he was denied urgent medical care before dying in custody in Virginia. The claim was brought by Tucker’s mother, Sandra Jones, on Thursday, October 22, 2026 — what would have been her son’s 34th birthday. It names Alexandria police officers Chelsea Henry and William McGinnis as defendants and seeks unspecified damages, including punitive damages against the officers. Tucker, 32, was arrested on August 15, 2025, after police were called to an apartment complex in the 2800 block of North…

Cox Plate Day was being marked at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne as part of the city’s spring racing calendar.

Melania Trump’s office says she has secured a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, allowing humanitarian aid to enter and civilians to be evacuated. The local agreement is due to begin on Thursday October 29 and would halt military action in the southern Ukrainian city, according to the first lady’s office. Russia and Ukraine have not publicly commented on the announcement, although Ukrainian officials indicated that a tentative agreement had been reached. Mrs Trump’s office said she had worked directly with Russian and Ukrainian leaders to set the terms of the arrangement, including its…

Two men have been arrested in connection with the fire that destroyed Limoges town hall during protests in France, as investigators examine alleged links between the attack and ultra-Left groups operating in rural communities. Hodei Ciarra Docampo, 34, was detained at his parents’ home in Le Grand Pic, a remote hamlet in the Limousin region. A second suspect, a 66-year-old local man whose name has not been released, was arrested several days later in Gentioux-Pigerolles, about 75 miles away. Both men were being held in custody under revised laws allowing people suspected of riot-related offences to be detained for longer…

Dove Cameron chose filmmaker Kenny Ortega to officiate her wedding to Damiano David because of the personal significance he holds in her life. The actress, 30, said she and the 27-year-old singer wanted someone who “meant something to one of us personally” to lead the ceremony. Cameron told Coveteur that David felt it was especially fitting for the officiant to be close to her. Her father was unable to attend, while the logistics of holding the wedding in Italy meant many of the couple’s guests could not make it. Ortega has been an important mentor and father figure to Cameron…

California Democratic leaders gathered in San Francisco on Friday to mobilise voters against Proposition 39, a ballot measure that would introduce new identification requirements for in-person and postal voting. Governor Gavin Newsom, former House speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior Democrats urged Californians to vote “No” in the 3 November election, presenting the proposal as a threat to access to the ballot box. The rally was held at the Mission District offices of Laborers Local 261, where speakers also included Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Representative Zoe Lofgren and California Democratic Party chair Rusty Hicks. Under Proposition 39, voters casting their…