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Asda notched up sales growth in the second quarter, despite a challenging retail market and tough competition from last year's bumper summer.

Further reinforcements have been sent to firefighters battling a major forest fire in a nature reserve on the Greek island of Evia.

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A gunman is in custody after opening fire on police as they were serving a drug warrant in Philadelphia.

A Spanish aid boat with 147 rescued migrants aboard is anchored near a tiny southern Italian island while Italy's interior and defence ministers row over their fate.

A flock of sheep was herded along Whitehall on Thursday by campaigners who say a no-deal Brexit could force half of UK farms out of business.

A flock of sheep was herded along Whitehall on Thursday by campaigners who say a no-deal Brexit could force half of UK farms out of business.

A flock of sheep was herded along Whitehall on Thursday by campaigners who say a no-deal Brexit could force half of UK farms out of business.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used an independence day speech to defend his government's controversial decision to strip the disputed Kashmir region of its statehood and special constitutional provisions.

Higher take-up of premium beers helped to boost Carlsberg sales in the first half, but its core brand suffered a decline in the UK.

The United States has acted to seize an Iranian supertanker detained in Gibraltar for breaching international sanctions on oil shipments, seemingly thwarting efforts by authorities in London and the British...

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The second Ashes Test has turned red in honour of former England captain Andrew Strauss' late wife Ruth.

The competition watchdog has called for the break-up of two recently-merged medical technology firms after finding the deal could lead to the NHS and charities paying higher prices.

The autopsy report of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in an apparent suicide in his jail cell, found that he had several broken bones in his neck, the...

Ladbrokes owner GVC pushed its profit forecasts higher as its UK high street stores performed better than expected despite the clampdown on fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs).

Police said they took into custody early on Thursday the suspect in a seven-hour shooting standoff in a north Philadelphia home that left six officers wounded after a barrage of...

Electricity supplier URE Energy has been stripped of its licence by regulator Ofgem after failing to pay into a fund when it did not source enough renewable energy.

The captain of a Russian passenger jet has been hailed as a hero for landing his plane in a field after it collided with a flock of birds seconds after...

A passenger jet has made an emergency landing in a field outside of one of Moscow's airports after colliding with a flock of birds, injuring at least 23 people, Russian...

Transport giant FirstGroup has appointed the former boss of rival Arriva as its new chairman as the group looks to move on from its spat with activist investor Coast Capital.

Donald Trump has suggested trade talks with China can wait until tensions in Hong Kong have eased, tweeting: “Of course China wants to make a deal. Let them work humanely...

A leading Hong Kong opposition leader imprisoned on public disorder charges has been released on bail as the government attempts to quell a protest movement that has paralysed parts of...

A Wisconsin fugitive wanted on child sexual assault and child pornography charges hid out for more than three years in a makeshift bunker powered by solar panels and a pedal...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday offered an olive branch to Japan to end a tense trade dispute, saying Seoul will “gladly join hands” if Tokyo accepts calls to...

A Swedish court has found American rapper A$AP Rocky guilty of assault for his role in a street brawl in Stockholm.

George RR Martin has said real-world success distracted him from crafting his fictional universe and he needs to return to his writing room.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has set sail from Plymouth in the UK to attend UN summits in New York and Chile on tackling global warming.

A top Trump administration official has said that the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants into the country is about "people coming from Europe" and that America...

Any move by the US to place new ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles in South Korea could spark a "new Cold War" and an escalating arms race in the region, North Korean...

Scientists in New Zealand say they've found fossilised bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of an adult human and swam the oceans some 60 million...

Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala's blood showed high levels of carbon monoxide, air accident investigators have said.

Scientists in New Zealand say they've found fossilised bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of an adult human and swam the oceans some 60 million...

The fight over Jeffrey Epstein's estate has begun to take shape as a woman filed a lawsuit on Wednesday claiming the disgraced financier raped her when she was a teenager...

Several Philadelphia police officers have been injured in an "active and ongoing" shooting situation in the US city, authorities have said.

The family of a British mother who died after being doused with a flammable substance and set alight as she lay in bed in Barbados say they are "shocked and...

A gunman is in custody after opening fire on police as they were serving a drug warrant in Philadelphia, wounding six officers and triggering a standoff that extended into the...

The threat of a recession sparked a painful day in US financial markets.

A US politician has defended his call for a ban on all abortions by questioning whether “there would be any population of the world left” if not for births due...