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US basketball star LeBron James has announced he is joining the Philadelphia 76ers - after ditching tentative plans to retire from the sport.

Three fire engines and two fire officer cars were destroyed in a "significant" blaze at a large industrial unit in Essex which caused supplies of fertiliser to explode.

Four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers have been shot dead during a confrontation near a village in the occupied West Bank.

The government has asked prison staff to make them aware of any "stability issues" that may develop inside jails after delays to prisoners' early release dates, Sky News understands.

Four officers have been seriously injured after a police boat crashed into Westminster Bridge in central London.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison after murdering his four-week-old son by shaking him.

Anthony Joshua is set to make his long-awaited return to the boxing ring in his first fight since surviving a car crash that killed two of his friends.

A former police inspector has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual offences against young men in custody.

Four men have been killed in an early-morning collision after their car hit a lamppost.

A 25-year-old law student has been charged after an alleged car bomb was intercepted by Irish police near the border with Northern Ireland.

Singer Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to affray over a confrontation at a London nightclub in which a man was hit over the head with a bottle.

TikTok has been charged with breaching EU online content rules designed to protect children from predators or cyberbullying.

Six men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the fatal stabbing of another man, who flagged down a police car with stab wounds.

Heat health alerts have been issued for parts of England ahead of a busy getaway weekend, with temperatures potentially set to reach 30C.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been accused of trying to "manipulate the system" after he was transferred from prison to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.

Sperm whales can hang vertically in the water while sleeping by releasing gas bubbles that regulate their buoyancy, scientists found.

"Cockroach" activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended his 26-day hunger strike, but the youth movement that rallied around him has vowed to continue its protests.

An 11-year-old girl has become the first patient in the UK to have an innovative gene therapy for a rare condition that causes blindness.

Andy Burnham needs to "build bridges" with the Starmerite minister he sacked during his reshuffle, Baroness Harriet Harman has told the Electoral Dysfunction podcast.

A reward of up to £3,000 is being offered for information that leads to any arrest and conviction after a monkey was found abandoned on a London bus.