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"I was told by the midwife to shut up," says Tenisha, "and then she put her hand over my mouth... "

New warnings for snow and ice have been issued by the Met Office for parts of the UK - with hundreds of flood alerts also active.

The Trump administration has been accused of "purposefully muddying the waters" after releasing a list of hundreds of names mentioned in the Epstein files.

The executive producer of hit TV spy thriller Tehran has been found dead in an Athens hotel, police have said.

Barack Obama has said aliens are "real" in an interview, before later taking to social media to clarify his comments.

"They had to pay for the bullet that killed their son," Nasrin says with a mix of anger and disbelief.

US TV host Savannah Guthrie has posted a video message on social media saying, "we still have hope" - and urging whoever has her mother or knows of her whereabouts "to do the right thing".

If you've ever spent your morning commute daydreaming about starting afresh with your career, this feature is for you. Each Monday, we speak to someone from a different profession to discover what it's really like. This week we chat Jo Radford, the sommelier at Michelin-starred restaurant Timberyard in Edinburgh.

A man accused of killing 15 people by opening fire on a Hanukkah celebration at Australia's Bondi Beach has appeared in court via video link from prison for the first time.