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A private school teacher attacked BBC broadcaster Nicky Campbell in a "complete frenzy" when he was a pupil in the 1970s, a court heard.

Lithuania is no stranger to the threat posed by Russia given its geography and history.

A man has been charged over an alleged police assault during an anti-immigration protest in Glasgow.

The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from 1 June to 30 November, has been unusually quiet this year.

The seventh man arrested by police investigating a suspected terror plot close to RAF Fairford has been released on bail.

Russia has denied that a second case of an infectious disease has emerged where a woman who worked at a laboratory died last week.

The waiting list for hospital treatment in England is at its worst since 2025, new figures show, despite record levels of care being delivered.

Three sisters whose bodies were recovered from the sea off Brighton took their own lives, a coroner has ruled.

Water companies in England failed to report more than 50,000 sewage spills within the time required by law in the first half of the year, an environmental charity has claimed.

A 40-year-old man shot dead as people gathered for a memorial service in west London on Friday has been named.

Hate crime in England and Wales has increased by 7% - with record highs in those that were racially and religiously motivated.

A school employee was killed and two others were injured after a knife attack in Poland - the second such incident in the country in two days

England's very hot summer fuelled the second-highest number of wildfires on recent record, according to provisional government figures.

A nine-year-old girl has been killed in a crash in the Scottish Highlands.

A junior Royal Navy serviceman accused of plotting to leak classified information to Russia has appeared in court.

Long delays in handing over patients from ambulances to hospitals are causing their condition to worsen, with some dying as a result, according to a new report.

The UK government said it will retain its presence in East Jerusalem as Israel insisted the British consulate in the city had "ceased to function".

The population of a penguin colony that was previously the largest in the world has fallen by almost two-thirds, a new study has revealed - with climate change thought to be a major reason for the decline.

A teenager has had tissue from his testicles removed and retransplanted in the hope of still being able to have children after chemotherapy.

A Texas death row inmate has been put to death by lethal injection - despite objections following Christa Pike's botched execution last week.