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A three-year-old boy has died after he fell from the fourth-floor window of a hotel in Cyprus.

Activists have hung a picture of former prince Andrew with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the heart of Buckingham Palace.

A university worker has been awarded over £51,000 in a disability discrimination case after her employer failed to account for her short-term memory issues when she misgendered a transgender colleague.

A light aircraft pilot wrote "I’m bored" during a two-hour test flight - with his mischievous flight path appearing on an online tracking app.

The heatwave that affected England and Wales in June killed about 440 people a day during its three-day peak, scientists have estimated. Across the whole of the June heatwave, plus the one in May, about 2,700 people lost their lives prematurely.

A recent survey has found that over half of GPs across Wales are failing to meet patient demand as a result of sustained underinvestment.

Two men have tragically died after rescuing a pair of children who had got into difficulty in the sea at a popular UK beach.

Firefighters dealt with more than 300 emergency calls as Eleventh Night bonfires were lit across Northern Ireland.

Rescue workers initially thought it was an echo - it seemed impossible that anyone would have survived as the flames swept across the ravine. But it was a cry for help, reports Spanish RTVE.

As the third heatwave of the summer continues to grip, parts of the UK are facing an "exceptional" risk of wildfires over the next few days.

A man in his 40s has died after falling from an Eleventh Night bonfire in Belfast, police said.

Katie Price has reportedly been dealt another major blow after her husband, Lee Andrews, was allegedly arrested again in Dubai just weeks after being released from prison.

An 18-year-old boy has died after being found unresponsive in a reservoir in Greater Manchester on Friday, police have said.

New rules barring unregulated psychologists from family court cases in England and Wales will come into force this month, sparking hope that the “days of bogus experts are over”.

A Welsh hospital ward has been forced to close following an outbreak of a rare and highly contagious form of scabies.

Surgeons are breaking off operations midway after becoming overwhelmed by Britain’s heatwaves, medical leaders have claimed.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates was photographed arriving at the notoriously secretive Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference in Idaho on Thursday.

The Princes Street building which has been destroyed by a major fire was due to be part of a new hotel and pod-hotel in the former Debenhams store.

Texas-born influencer and bodybuilder Connor Murphy died on Tuesday night after jumping into a lake near where he lived in Samut Prakan, a province just south of Bangkok.

Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk has secured a 20-year extension to its operational lifespan, allowing it to continue generating electricity for the UK until 2055.

Across the UK, the Muslim population is getting younger. The Muslim Council of Britain estimates that by 2031 there will be around 552,000 Muslim teenagers in Britain — a demographic that will play a growing role in shaping the country’s cities, schools and civic life.

The health secretary has admitted he remains ’uneasy’ about a controversial NHS puberty blockers trial as MPs criticised the limited support available to patients who detransition.

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has given the green light for the construction of the UK’s second largest solar farm, set to be built on the border between Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

A judge has warned of the risks of using AI in court hearings after documents from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) contained references to “non-existent” legal cases.