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Serena Williams is to make her return to competitive tennis at the age of 44.

The UK could make airspace above pieces of critical energy infrastructure no-fly zones amid warnings that hostile drones have the ability to cause mass blackouts.

A 36-year-old man has been charged with rape and murder following the death of a woman in her 80s in Cornwall.

A man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged in relation to a spate of driving incidents that saw an officer struck by a stolen police car.

Major rule changes have been announced ahead of the 2026 World Cup - including expanded powers for VAR, 10-second substitutions and a crackdown on tactical timeouts.

Two more children's sand kits have been removed from sale after testing found they contained asbestos.

There has been a sharp decline in the use of vapes in the UK a year on from the government ban on single-use devices - but campaigners have warned that millions are still being binned.

A 13-year-old girl has died after being rescued from a river, as the number of deaths in open water in the UK over the last eight days reached 17, following a record-breaking May heatwave.

Disruptive plane passengers could find themselves banned from flying by all airlines under a new UK government proposal.

UK forces helped the French navy intercept an oil tanker under international sanctions that was coming from Russia, alleged to be part of its shadow fleet.

Former England and Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan says he is responding well to treatment for stage four cancer - and his doctor is a Liverpool supporter.

Hundreds of young demonstrators marched outside a military base in Kenya over US plans for an Ebola quarantine zone in the country.

Former England midfielder James Milner has announced his retirement from football at the age of 40.

Andoni Iraola has been named Liverpool's new head coach, replacing Arne Slot.

There is not even a deal on the table but there is little surprise in the City that easyJet has become the latest big UK name to face takeover interest.

Arne Slot said goodbye to Anfield in an open letter after being dismissed as Liverpool head coach - as Bournemouth's Andoni Iraola is set to enter talks with the club.

A new pill helped to double the survival time for patients with an advanced and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer when compared to chemotherapy, a trial has found.

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A British Army soldier has been killed in a training accident, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign visitors.