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Aston Villa goalkeeper allegedly assaulted during pitch invasion after Manchester city title win
Russians defiantly shout 'f**k the war' at concert in St Petersberg
Decision bars federal courts from hearing new evidence not presented in a state court as a result of ineffective legal counsel
IN reply to Paul Cox (letters, April 28), I won’t dispute your faith, but how do you explain the existence of Putin? Christ did not die for HIM, surely? And God (he or she) created the devil, which resides in Putin and all such tyrants.
A Russian diplomat quit his post in a daring anti-Kremlin walkout on Monday as he condemned Vladimir Putin for trying to stay in power by unleashing an “aggressive war in Ukraine”.
Monkeypox, which is related to the now eradicated smallpox virus, is endemic in parts of west and central Africa
Russia's blockade of Ukraine will lead to worsening starvation, famine and instability around the world if it cannot be lifted, the World Food Programme has said.
A group of climate change activists take part in a demonstration against the World Economic Forum (WEF) during the annual meeting in Davos.
A dust storm swept across Kuwait and other countries in the Middle East on Monday, May 23, reducing visibility.Kuwait’s national weather service said that dusty weather and wind speeds exceeding 37 miles per hour were expected on Monday. The dust storm conditions were forecast to continue into the early hours of Tuesday.This timelapse video taken by Twitter user @Ftma_kuw, who said she took it in Kuwait City, shows the dust storm. Credit: @Ftma_kuw via Storyful
A metal detector located the phone when Harri Pullen’s cell at HMP Swansea was searched.
As the head of the civil service, Simon Case is the highest ranking public official to be implicated in the partygate scandal.
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Former British Member of Parliament Imran Ahmad Khan was sentenced to 18 months in jail at Southwark Crown Court after being convicted of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, PA Media reported on Monday. Khan, who was a lawmaker from Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party, resigned as a member of parliament last month after he was found guilty of assaulting the boy at a house in 2008. Khan had represented the Wakefield area in northern England.
Treasury minister Simon Clarke insisted the Prime Minister did not instigate the meeting ahead of the publication of the partygate inquiry.
The streets of Iraq's capital Baghdad were once more largely bereft of traffic on Monday morning, as the latest in a series of sandstorms descended
GARY Boswell (The Cumberland News, April 29) harks back wistfully to the advantages of ‘being in the euro’ – when the UK was never in the euro.
The crunch partygate report is expected to drop this week
Brewers are already switching to cans because of the rising cost of glassware.
Staring out over Ukraine's seemingly endless wheat fields near Odessa, Dmitriy Matulyak has a difficult time imagining that so many people may starve soon as another bountiful harvest nears.
Moscow's forces are now focused on securing and expanding their gains in the Donbas region and on Ukraine's southern coast