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Two major providers of NHS patient data to the pharmaceuticals industry are to merge in a £140m deal to give them greater scale in their battle with the American giant Palantir Technologies.

Five people are missing after a fire broke out in the Swiss town of Thusis, local police have said.

The body of an 18-year-old hiker has been recovered from the Australian bush, a day after authorities incorrectly announced she had been found alive.

British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly will face a retrial on allegations he raped a woman in Australia almost two years ago.

A hunt has been launched for a man who chased a woman while wearing a "Chucky-style Halloween mask" in Philadelphia.

A Romanian man has been jailed for murder in the UK - just three years after being freed over a similar killing in his homeland.

Cyclist Josh Tarling will ride in a Spainish event just eight days after his younger brother Finlay died when he was hit by a car during the Volta a Portugal.

Two organisers of Hong Kong's decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have been convicted under a controversial national security law.

The new Premier League season kicks off later today, raising the curtain on another nine months of heated rivalry, thrilling drama and inevitable controversy.

When it comes to the world's oldest person, you might be forgiven for thinking their best days are far behind them.

Security for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex upon their return to the UK could cost millions of pounds, a former police chief has said, as uncertainty remains over how protection for the couple will be funded.

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has returned to prison after being temporarily moved to a private hospital for treatment, a ‌spokesman for his party ⁠has said.

The driver of a bus has been arrested after a 14-year-old boy died following a collision with the vehicle.

Police are appealing for information after a man was found shot dead in a car in east London.

At least 50 people, mostly children, have died after a boat carrying farm labourers capsized in Nigeria.

Britain's biggest banks have fired a renewed warning to the government against hiking taxes on the industry as John Healey, the new chancellor, prepares to deliver his inaugural Budget in October.

The gap between boys and girls closed to its lowest rate in 37 years, but it's not just a case of boys improving faster and catching up with girls.

A man has been charged in connection with the terror attack at the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester last year.

The school of a 14-year-old who died after getting into difficulty in the sea has called her a "sweet girl" who will be "greatly missed".

A conman who defrauded victims out of £68,000 by claiming he had cancer and served in the special forces, among other lies, has been jailed.