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Donald Trump has been accused of "disgusting behaviour" after sharing a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

A summer camp leader who drugged children with sweets laced with a tranquiliser before sexually assaulting them has been jailed for more than 23 years.

An 18-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a university student in Leicester.

The owner of a Michelin-star restaurant has been found guilty of spiking a woman's drink with a date-rape drug at a Mayfair private members' club in a bid to overpower her for sex.

Police have launched a fresh appeal for information about "possible previous offending" by serial killer Steve Wright, as he was jailed for the murder of a teenager more than 25 years ago.

The only surviving victim of "Suffolk Strangler" Steve Wright has told how if police had taken her story seriously, the other women he went on to murder may still be alive today.

There is "no end in sight to the rain", forecasters have warned, despite downpours having lashed Britain every day in 2026.

Tributes have been paid to a pilot who was killed in a light aircraft crash earlier this week. 

From the Skripal poisonings to the invasion of Ukraine to subverting American elections, it is hard to think of a Russian outrage Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev has not been involved in.

An "incel" schoolboy who threatened to launch a Valentine's Day massacre has pleaded guilty to possessing bomb-making videos.