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Rugby league legend John Kear has died "suddenly", a day after commentating on the Challenge Cup final.

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.

Police are investigating six stabbings after Arsenal's Premier League title-winning parade in London on Sunday.

Israeli forces have captured a strategically important fortress from the Crusades, marking the country's deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

The Metropolitan Police have taken over an investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found in a van in Leicester on Wednesday.

A search is under way for an 11-year-old boy who went missing after being seen entering a river in South Yorkshire.

An injection that eradicated entire tumours in patients with otherwise treatment-resistant cancers in a trial has been praised for its "striking" benefits.

Heavy rain is threatening to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos.

The UK is set to welcome fresher conditions on Sunday as a record-breaking heatwave gives way to cooler temperatures and sporadic rain.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has visited the province hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials.

A former chief executive of Marks and Spencer has been appointed by the government to get more than one million young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) into work.

A meteor travelling at 75,000mph caused a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the US on Saturday afternoon.

A family of four who died when a bus collided with several vehicles on a US motorway were travelling to wedding, it has been revealed.

Donald Trump is considering cancelling a series of concerts after a number of artists pulled out - and holding a political-style rally instead.

Hundreds of people in Kent remain without tap water, as South East Water continues work to restore drinking water supplies.

Police in Scotland have discovered a cannabis farm worth around £174,000.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 80s was found dead, police said.

A 15-year-old girl has died in a water-related incident during the heatwave.

A 15-year-old girl has become the 13th person to die in a water-related incident during the heatwave.