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An arsonist who went on a day-long rampage has been jailed for 18 months.

The UK will experience a greater risk of flooding and a wetter autumn than average, the Met Office has said.

Police have been unable to identify a woman in her 70s found dead in a Liverpool park two weeks after the discovery of her body.

Anthropic says it has blocked efforts to use its artificial intelligence models to carry out cyber attacks and research which could have led to the creation of biological weapons.

Israel has destroyed a network of Hezbollah tunnels in southern Lebanon - triggering a 4.1 magnitude tremor in the area.

The head of MI5 has issued a "call to arms" for the whole of society to treat national security as a shared challenge.

The sanctions announced by the UK government on West Bank settlers this week "played straight into the right-wing coalition's hand" in Israel, a prominent Jewish Labour peer has said.

The UK economy recorded 0.4% growth in July, partly on the back of artificial intelligence (AI) investment, according to early official figures that outperformed expectations.

MPs will once again have to decide on what could be the biggest social change since abortion was legalised - whether to back assisted dying.

Five people have been killed and 40 others injured in a Dutch tour bus crash in eastern Switzerland, police said.

A deadly blaze left as least 26 students dead and dozens injured after a fire swept through two schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

A mother has been charged with the murder of her 17-month-old daughter, police said.

A man who once ordered a hitman to kill his ex-partner has been jailed for throttling a woman because she was singing along during a performance of We Will Rock You.

There were 35 cases of emergency helicopters being attacked by a laser in the first six months of 2026, new data from the UK's air regulator shows.

Andy Burnham wants to expand support for fan-owned sports clubs, reviving a policy he helped pioneer under New Labour.

The RNLI has advised its staff and volunteers to choose carefully when to wear its uniform after what it described as "unacceptable abuse" endured in recent weeks.

A group of developers working on the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI in the UK are suing Rockstar Games over unfair dismissal claims.

A former PE teacher has been found guilty of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old schoolboy.

Two people have been arrested on suspicion of assisting Iran's intelligence service, the Metropolitan Police said.

Seven men have been arrested after four were injured, one critically, following a stabbing in a London high street.