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England and Wales have seen their driest July on record, provisional Met Office figures show.

A fugitive fraudster who Sky News confronted in Tenerife has been jailed.

A man who kept his mother's body in a freezer for nearly three years while receiving more than £78,000 of her benefits has been jailed.

Countries across Europe are on the brink of an energy emergency as the River Danube falls to record-low water levels - with Romania carrying out underwater detonations to improve water flow.

Hungary's prime minister has warned the country is facing the "most critical five days ahead" with its sole nuclear power plant expected to be shut down this week due to record-low water levels of the River Danube.

A man has been arrested following the death of a nine-year-old girl who was found seriously injured at an industrial estate in Angus.

Drivers have stolen an average of almost £200,000 worth of fuel from UK forecourts every day since the start of the Iran oil crisis, analysis shows.

Ariana Grande has announced she will step back from public-facing engagements, citing concerns about "endless, ongoing public scrutiny".

At least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bombing that targeted protesters at an anti-militant rally in northwestern Pakistan, officials say.

Heat health alerts have been issued for most of England, with temperatures set to hit 35C today - as farmers warned about the impact of the prolonged hot weather on food production.

A man in his 70s and a woman in her 40s have been arrested after a fatal shooting at a Traveller site in Wiltshire.

A man has been arrested over the death of a British woman, whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in an abandoned building in Athens.

A 17-year-old girl died at Kendal Calling festival in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Police failed to execute an arrest warrant against a paedophile in the 18 months before he killed his partner's two-year-old daughter.

At least five people have died and 41 are missing after a ferry caught fire off the coast of an Indonesian island, officials have said.

An emergency has been declared in Washington state, where 60,000 people have been left without power as strong winds and high temperatures drive fast-moving wildfires.

Vincent Pastore, who played Tony Soprano's best friend turned FBI informant on HBO's prestige drama The Sopranos, has died aged 80.

A tourist plane has crashed in Peru, leaving 13 people dead, according to local authorities.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in Pride events in the UK and mainland Europe, a week after a deadly extremist attack on a Pride festival in Berlin.

A boxer from the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu has won her country's first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a fight.