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Further escalation in the Middle East must be avoided at all costs..

Erik ten Hag wants Manchester United to be more ruthless but insisted a frustrating first Premier League loss of the season was far from doom and gloom..

Three comedians were announced as winners at the 42nd annual Edinburgh Comedy Awards for their gift for comedy and how to use it..

Kirstie Allsopp said she was contacted by social services for allowing her teenage son to go on an interrailing trip..

The King has appointed a composer of the London 2012 Paralympic Games as Master of the Kings Music..

About a million people are expected to descend on west London for Notting Hill Carnival, which will see performers dance through the streets in colourful costumes this weekend, as thousands of officers prepare to police the event..

Cocaine with a street value of more than £40 million has been seized by a Royal Navy warship in the Caribbean Sea..

Israel launched a series of intense airstrikes in southern Lebanon early on Sunday in what it said was a pre-emptive strike against the Hezbollah militant group, threatening to trigger a broader region-wide war that could torpedo efforts to forge a ceasefire in Gaza..