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This is the moment the government finally woke up to the enormity of the threat faced by the UK and the inability of its hollowed-out armed forces to cope.

A large bruise that appeared on Donald Trump's hand is down to him shaking a lot of hands, the White House has said.

Not one, not two, but seven planets are due to line up in the night skies later this week in a relatively rare planetary parade.

The body of a British businessman who went missing in Kenya more than a week ago was reportedly found in a sack of pineapples in a forest.

A couple have said they were forced to sit next to a dead body for four hours on a Qatar Airways flight.

An asteroid that had a very small chance of hitting Earth is no longer a potential threat, according to scientists.

Triple killer Nicholas Prosper, who also planned to attack a primary school, gave no clues about what he was going to do, according to a neighbour. 

A young mother was fatally stabbed with a "zombie knife" in front of her three-year-old daughter on the family day of Notting Hill Carnival, a court heard.

An MP has accused Meta of turning Facebook Messenger into "Jeffrey Epstein's private island" by enabling end-to-end encryption. 

The son of a wealthy art collector who described himself to 999 as a "nice boy from Chelsea" after stabbing and strangling a live-in housekeeper has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order with restrictions.