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The fatal shooting was captured on police bodycam which is being examined by the force

He said: "My sympathy and solidarity today with people in New Zealand and Muslims all over the world.”

UK publishers have been criticised for showing live stream footage of the New Zealand terror attack in spite of efforts to moderate its use online. A gunman filmed himself moving through the interior of a mosque today and shooting at his victims indiscriminately, with the footage streamed live on Facebook. But despite best efforts to remove the disturbing video off major platforms, UK publications have used clips in their reporting of the event. The MailOnline’s homepage splash is an animated GIF...

Crowds gathered outside Parliament to protest a perceived failure of politicians to tackle the climate emergency facing the planet and a Government “that doesn’t care about” them.

As school children protest in over 100 countries today for more to be done to tackle climate change, the Swedish girl who started the global campaign has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The School Strike For Climate movement started when Greta Thunberg, 15, began striking from school and protesting outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm last year for more to be done to fight climate change. Her story travelled around the globe, and soon school children were joining...

Profits at JD Wetherspoon sunk 19 per cent in the six months to the end of January, its latest results show. The pub chain, run by prominent Brexiteer Tim Martin, blamed a rise in labour costs, interest payments, utility bills, repairs and depreciation for the fall. Martin is currently touring 100 of his 900 pubs, talking to punters about the merits of leaving the EU without a deal on 29 March, and used the results announcement to express his concern that...

Parents have been shamed by their own children – for bad recycling practices, according to research. A poll of 2,000 mums and dads of children aged five to 18 found one in six believe their kids know more about what can be recycled than they do. And four in 10 have tried to throw something away, only to be caught out by a child who knew better. A quarter of kids have even pointed out good recycling habits at the...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the terrorist attack on a mosque in New Zealand "reaffirms what we have always maintained: that terrorism does not have a religion" following a deadly assault by a rightwing extremist. Police say 49 people have been killed in Christchurch and more than 20 are seriously wounded in two mosque shootings. Australian PM Scott Morrison confirmed an Australian-born citizen had been arrested and called him an "extremist rightwing violent terrorist" A man in his...

Over the last 540 million years the Earth has weathered three such events - with ice sheets and glaciers stretching far beyond the polar cap