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The board of the English Football League (EFL) has met to discuss a £1.5bn bid by the Premier League to avert the imposition of a financial settlement by the sport's new watchdog.

Two men have been charged with the attempted murder of Urfan Sharif who is in prison for killing his daughter Sara.

DR Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province after a death was recorded in the previously unaffected Bas-Uele province.

A 102-year-old man has died after allegedly being pushed off a pub stage when he asked for the music to be turned down.

While the percentage of students getting top grades increased overall, it fell among girls.

A blast at a petroleum storage facility in the port of Rotterdam has killed one person and wounded six others, Dutch officials said.

A man has died after a suspected gas explosion destroyed a bungalow in Buckinghamshire, police say.

Israeli settlers have been condemned by the US ambassador after the home of an American Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank was besieged.

Bluetongue has been detected on a second farm in Scotland and three other suspected cases are being investigated after the nation's first-ever case was recorded at the weekend.

A father has returned to court over the alleged murder of his nine-year-old daughter in Angus.

The civilian workforce tasked with equipping the UK's armed forces to be ready for war has been told it must wait until next year for an already limited and disputed pay rise, Sky News understands.

The rate of UK growth has slowed but the economy remained resilient despite the Iran war, according to the latest data.

Retailers have warned that a ban on zero-hours contracts risks inflicting a "hammer blow to young people's job prospects" after the government's own analysis found the move could cost businesses billions of pounds a year.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the US may soon be equipped with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks.

The son of Hollywood actor and director Rob Reiner has denied stabbing his parents to death in their Los Angeles home after a new allegation of lying in wait for them.

The leader of African football has told Sky News the FIFA election is the way to challenge Gianni Infantino's position – cautioning against moves to force out the embattled president early.

Donald Trump's press secretary will be departing her White House role, the US president has announced.

A bus driver shot dead outside a south London pub has been named by police.

The scale of the war in Sudan is hard to take in.

Serial sex attacker Simon Levy has joined a list of roughly 70 people serving a whole-life order in the UK after he was handed the sentence for murdering two women and raping a third.