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The Solong cargo ship and Stena Immaculate tanker collided off the East Yorkshire coast on Monday....

The former banker may not have been elected to office before, but his experience managing global economic crises will help....

Itay Kashti's kidnappers were motivated by "political and religious reasons," a court hears....

Edgar Riches, 79, was thought to have been struck by a car in a presidential motorcade in Nairobi...

The woman admitted grooming and having sexual intercourse with a teenage schoolboy....

Three men took the government to court over what they described as "prison-like" conditions....

Witnesses share their exhausting and terrifying escape after a plane forced to make an emergency landing caught fire....

The government is to set out details of how it will save billions of pounds from the working welfare bill....

In an unusual show of unity, party leaders say they "cannot accept the repeated statements about the annexation of Greenland."...