Lockerbie bombing trial postponed days before it was due to start
The long-awaited courtroom reckoning over the 1988 Lockerbie disaster has slipped once more, with judges in Washington DC agreeing to delay the…
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Briton fighting for Russia killed in Ukraine
A Briton fighting for Russia killed in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region has become the first British citizen confirmed dead while serving on…
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Snooker champion Graeme Dott guilty of child sex abuse
Graeme Dott was found guilty of two charges at the High Court in Glasgow Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been…
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70,000 social and affordable homes to be built across England as part of £39bn plan
The UK government has confirmed the locations where 70,000 social and affordable homes will be constructed across England over the coming decade.…
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Kit Harington joins HBO’s Harry Potter series as Gilderoy Lockhart
Kit Harington has been tapped to join the highly anticipated Harry Potter TV series as the wizarding world's celebrity-turned-Hogwarts instructor Gilderoy
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World’s oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows
The planet's seas have crossed a threshold that scientists had been watching with growing unease: the mean surface temperature of all oceans…
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Charity? Acting? The Cotswolds? What will Harry and Meghan’s UK life look like?
What shape will the Sussexes' new chapter take once they swap a California zip code for a southern-English postcode? The answer, pieced…
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Iran faces ‘greatest financial offensive ever’, says US treasury secretary
The United States Treasury moved on Monday to cut Iran off from virtually every corner of the global financial system, a sweeping…
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Is UK’s Storm Shadow missile a game changer for Ukraine?
Ukraine's nightly sky has become a familiar canvas of fire. Russian ballistic missiles — Iskanders, Kalibrs, Kh-101s, and their rotating cast of…
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Burnham vows support for Ukraine despite ‘outrageous threats’ from Russia
The decision to hand Ukraine the technical drawings for British-built components used in the Scalp cruise missile marks a significant escalation in…
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