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A days-long funeral is under way in Tehran for Iran's former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Delivery company Evri is suing the BBC for about £1.2m over a Panorama programme featuring complaints by drivers and customers.

Formula One's decision to put drivers in Lego cars for Sunday's British Grand Prix parade lap has been criticised by top drivers.

A woman who killed her elderly husband with a vegetable knife and falsely claimed the fatal stab wound to the chest was accidental has been jailed.

Vickrum Digwa, who was jailed for life for the murder of Henry Nowak, is seeking to appeal against his conviction and sentence.

Two men have been jailed over the stabbing of a TV presenter in a case that exposed the use of criminal "proxies" in the UK by the Iranian government.

A teenager who killed a mother-of-three by running her over with a car has been jailed for 17 years.

A woman who stalked former Tory chancellor George Osborne and his wife, including reporting them to social services, has been spared jail.

Skeletal remains discovered in a remote woodland in the US state of Wyoming last year have been identified as a missing man from Scotland.

A spacecraft has blasted into orbit on a mission to rescue a NASA telescope that is at risk of crashing back to Earth.

Parts of the UK are braced for another potential heatwave - with temperatures in some areas expected to soar to 30C over the weekend.

Forty people have died after an overcrowded passenger bus plunged into a ravine in Pakistan.

The Duke of Sussex remains determined to find a way to safely bring his wife and children to the UK this month, despite concerns over how they will be protected, Sky News understands.

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has retired from cycling.

A teenager has been charged with the attempted murder of a boy who was shot in Birmingham.

Interpol has named a woman who is wanted over a bombing in Monaco which reportedly targeted a Ukrainian tycoon with links to Russia.

Venezuela's US-backed acting president Delcy Rodriguez has issued a fiery defence of her government's response to last week's devastating earthquakes - which has claimed the lives of 2,595 people.

A murder investigation is under way after the death of a teenager in Northampton.

Three men have been found not guilty of murdering journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland.

A former US Olympic canoeist has been indicted for allegedly vandalising a newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington.