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Daniil Medvedev was disqualified from his ‌China Open semi-final clash with Novak Djokovic after hitting a spectator in the face with a ball.

A woman was crushed to death by a pile of bricks as she walked past a construction site after doing the school run, a court has heard.

Lord Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86.

Glasgow City Council and Unison have reached a potential deal after an ongoing pay dispute sparked a controversial plan to fire and rehire 23,000 workers.

A US marine has been arrested on suspicion of robbing and killing a woman in Japan.

Germany risks entering a "violent conflict" with Russia because of Moscow's increasingly aggressive stance against European nations, an intelligence chief has warned.

Twelve arrests have been made during an anti-migrant protest that gathered on the South Coast when a small boat was due to arrive from France.

An Afghan migrant who stabbed a dog walker to death in a random attack has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.

The Scottish government is on course to miss legally-binding targets on child poverty "by miles", a charity warned.

An Afghan refugee who fatally stabbed a man walking his dog in a random attack has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order.

A murder investigation has been launched after a body was found inside a burning van.

The US removed its bombers from RAF Fairford partly because of a reported threat of a possible Iranian drone attack against the base, American officials have said.

A failed asylum seeker who tried to launch a knife attack on London's Israeli embassy has been jailed for life.

J Sainsbury held merger talks with rival grocer Morrisons earlier this year - a deal that would have represented the most significant tie-up in the sector for more than five years.

A Saudi-led coalition says it has attacked 324 "high-value targets" in an operation involving 100 fighter jets against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.

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Environmental campaigners are urging the Scottish government to hold a public consultation before any new hyperscale data centres are given the green light.

The US says it is "closely monitoring" the situation after the death of a laboratory worker in Russia who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague.

Whisky is to be distilled in space for the first time as part of an experiment which will also measure how the spirit ages in the environment beyond Earth's atmosphere.

The government is unprepared for disruptions to food supplies which are exposed to "shocks and threats", experts have warned.