Lola Young surprises Reading Festival with final day set
The Grid stage at Reading Festival's closing day carried an extra charge of anticipation that no ticketed lineup could have manufactured. Singer…
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Seven arrested after death of newborn baby girl
A newborn baby girl was confirmed dead at a residential address in Sheffield's Wincobank district on Sunday morning, prompting the arrest of…
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‘A giant leap forward’: Nasa launches powerful new space telescope
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket roared off the pad at Kennedy Space Center on a Sunday morning, carrying aboard its payload the…
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US strikes Iranian launchers on Larak Island in first known attack in weeks
The Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway through which roughly one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flows — has…
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Prisoners freed early are returning to jail at rapid rate, governors tell BBC
Prisoners freed early are returning to cells at a pace that has alarmed the people running England and Wales' custodial estate. Facilities…
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Police release one of two fatal fire suspects
Cleveland Police have freed a 31-year-old man who had been detained on suspicion of murder following a devastating house fire in Grangetown,…
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Australia usually hosts the world’s biggest cuttlefish mating event – not this year
The shallow waters off South Australia's southern coast, where hundreds of thousands of giant cuttlefish have historically converged each winter to mate
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Trump hails ‘historic’ deal for US to control 65bn barrels of Venezuela’s oil
In a late-night Saturday announcement, the president declared that Washington now holds direct operational authority over more than 65 billion barrels of
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Former Ecuadorian president imprisoned for corruption
A court in Quito has handed former president Lenín Moreno a five-year prison term after convicting him and nineteen co-defendants of corruption…
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Dementia patient’s deportation delayed
George Mason, a 74-year-old man with vascular dementia and vascular parkinsonism, will not be forced out of Sweden immediately after authorities granted…
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