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A former lawyer who was found guilty of killing his wife and son has had his murder convictions overturned by a US court and will now face a retrial.

Gunfire broke out in the Philippine senate where a senator is holed up trying to avoid arrest over claims of crimes against humanity.

A man who tried to murder a baby girl by violently shaking her has been jailed for 11 years.

The prison service faces severe sanction by the health and safety regulator after it exposed staff and inmates to dangerous levels of deadly radon gas.

An addiction counsellor who delivered the ketamine doses to Matthew Perry that killed the Friends star has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Hundreds more children with a rare muscle-wasting condition are to be given access to two "life-changing" treatments after they were approved for NHS use.

More than 1,700 passengers and crew members have been ordered not to leave their cruise ship while French health officials carry out tests after a likely stomach flu outbreak onboard.

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An imam who raped and sexually assaulted women and girls as young as 12 after telling them he had supernatural powers has been jailed for life.

A man was shot outside his father's top Turkish restaurant after they refused to hand over £100,000 to a north London gang, a court heard.

The UK is set to bask in "rather warm" temperatures of around 25C by the end of May, forecasters have suggested.

More than 70 million warnings were sent to people searching for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online in the last two years, according to new data.

The world's first breath test for laughing gas – or nitrous oxide – is to be trialled in southern England in a bid to curb drug driving.

A condition that affects more than three million women and girls in the UK has been given a new name to reduce the chances of missed diagnoses and inadequate treatment.

A murder investigation has been launched after a man who was part of a group of pedestrians struck by a car in Nottinghamshire died in hospital.

A Scottish man who worked as a military instructor in Ukraine has been jailed for more than eight years after he admitted spying for Russia.

Women are being forced to turn to loan sharks due to a "hidden" but devastating form of economic abuse, new research has shown.

The bodies of three women have been recovered from the sea off Brighton early today, Sussex Police have said.

People on weight loss jabs could maintain their progress by shifting to a daily pill after finishing treatment, a study suggests.

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