No-deal Brexit threatens to set UK back 10 years, warns Hammond
Chancellor's comments spark fresh clash with Theresa May – just hours after she claimed 'our best days are ahead of us'
Sandstone statue standing 38cm tall probably dates back to 305BC, say officials
Unnerving tune woke up residents in Ipswich by playing over and over again
‘Maniac’, loosely based on a Norwegian TV show of the same name, is bizarre and bewildering. It throws everything at the wall
Liberal Democrat leader will also say he is starting to feel 'sorry' for Theresa May, with the warring factions in the Conservative Party
'I closed his eyes and said "I'm sorry," defence minister tells Westminster attack inquests
One diplomat of a medium-sized country said to me that a country 'we used to regard as strong and stable' now has a politics that 'is in chaos'
Donald Glover and the series he created, 'Atlanta,' is also expected to pick up a number of gongs
Call handler describes 'eeire' control room atmosphere as calls for help from victims dried up
But new boss is not throwing out the rule book with vast collection referencing brand’s heritage
But the show has a long way to go before it earns 'must watch' status.
Southampton 2-2 Brighton & Hove Albion: Saints threw away a two-goal lead at St Mary's when James Ward-Prowse conceded a late penalty in added time
'Loving families are threatened by this proposal'
Remarks come after one of the most senior Lib Dems, Jo Swinson, said the party should have done more to prevent Theresa May's hostile environment and the 'punishing' bedroom tax
Proposals would allow police officers to delay consultations with solicitors or sit in on them
Donald Trump says nominee 'one of the finest people I have ever known'
Actor not seen in public for three months and has vanished from social media
'I am not a member of your party, or indeed any party now, but I want, all the same, to see the Liberal Democrats thrive'
‘I don’t see logically why any UK shareholder would support their decision to go Dutch, because there is no upside only downside,’ says senior Aviva Investors fund manager
Total of 625 extra deaths recorded during two periods of higher-than-normal temperatures in spring and early summer
Passengers forced to walk down train line to safety as smoke fills carriage
Interview by Daphne Merkin has has been criticised because its author is a longtime friend and admirer of Allen's
Toddlers exposed to bacteria-killing products more susceptible to obesity as gut organisms altered, study suggests
'It can be a shock to see this in the street in the middle of the capital,' says RSPCA officer
Rhesus macaque makes getaway following 'cage failure', university says
'You can imagine how wiggly and unruly (and nippy!) this frightened, distressed ball of squirrelly energy was'
Fortnite is addictive, of that there is no doubt. But reports that it is so addictive it has caused at least 200 divorces are a little overstated.
Child's arm broken after animal thrashes free of its handler
Owner says technique provides a 'kinder' death - and the meat is tastier
Social media users hone in on old Hopkins tweet suggesting people in debt blame others for their plight
'He didn't want us to go anywhere near him'
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If the film industry paid close attention to who they were casting in these roles, then the moral dilemmas actors face about whether or not to take them would be much less frequent
Despite hitting on an obvious truth that there is an economic north-south divide in the UK, one wonders what the novelist and former politician plans to do about it
However much flack I’ve had for whatever I’ve done, there isn’t a single job I regret because I care deeply about each of the projects I put my name to
All would be old age pensioners now, or even dead, but that should not stop suspects from receiving court summonses and jail sentences at extremely advanced ages
Whatever the fate of Mosul or Raqqa or the future of Idlib, Isis and Nusrah are still in conflict – just when the conflict was supposed to be about to end
New York’s gubernatorial campaign was a microcosm of the battle between moderate democrats and 'democratic socialists' that continues to rage within the party
I remember drifting down a ski lift in the French Alps reading that Bear Sterns was being swallowed up for $2 per share by banking behemoth JP Morgan to avoid a bankruptcy of its own. The notion that Lehman Brothers would be next seemed laughable
Many of the materials now used by far-right groups such as National Action mirror the tactics of Isis, asking recruits to join 'white jihad' to 'cleanse Britain of parasites'
We do not put people who use wheelchairs, people who are deaf or blind, or people with learning difficulties on a stage and laugh at them
Turkish and Russian officials are meeting in Sochi as Idlib province prepares for an onslaught by Assad’s forces
Communist candidate led the contest until the very last, but was defeated after an improbable late switch in favour of the Kremlin's man
Move comes after US opts to close Palestine Liberation Organisation's office in Washington DC
Research by Unicef finds 65 per cent of females in the Kibera slum had traded sex for sanitary pads
Viral clip showing donkey making 'official visit' to a fire station led to two arrests
Nine more injured after incident in popular central square
Evelyn Rodriguez invited to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in January as an advocate for victims of gang violence
Australia has launched a nationwide investigation into needles being hidden in strawberries. Sewing needles have reportedly been found in strawberries in all 6 Australian states and the market is suffering from the resultant fear
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Typhoon Mangkhut has made landfall in China, bringing winds of 100mph to coastal areas and storm surges of 10 feet in Hong Kong. Pictured here are the smashed windows of an office tower in Hong Kong.
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German Police have begun evicting activists from the Hambacher Forest where a protest to protect the remaining section of the ancient forest has been ongoing for the past 6 years. Dozens of activists have been living in treehouses, but are now being forced out after tensions rose between them and energy company RWE, which plans to expand its coal mine further into the remaining woodland
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Speaking in Malmo today, the Dalai Lama stated "I think Europe belongs to Europeans" and suggested that refugees should focus on returning home and developing their home countries
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Preparations for Hurricane Florence, expected to make land on Friday, continue in North and South Carolina and Viriginia. Over 1 million people have been evacuated leading up to the arrival of the category 4 storm
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Um Majid, left, tries an improvised gas mask on family members in her home in Binnish in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province as part of preparations for any upcoming raids. Fearing government forces and their allies military advance to retake Idlib province, the mother of three learnt from YouTube videos how to make gas masks from charcoal, wood, paper cups, cotton, nylon plastic bags and tapes. According to her, she could manufacture more masks but the material she needs are not always available. She also dug a cave under her home
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People waving pro-independence Catalan flags 'Esteladas' while holding letters reading "independence" during a pro-independence demonstration in Barcelona to mark the National Day of Catalonia, the "Diada". Catalan separatists put on a show of strength and unity at celebrations of the region's national day, nearly a year after a failed attempt to break away from Spain. Catalonia's national day, the 'Diada' commemorates the fall of Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714 and the region's subsequent loss of institutions and freedoms
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An Indian man makes his way through floodwaters from the overflowing Panchanai River in Siliguri. Continuous rainfall has caused flooding and landslides in parts of Siliguri and surrounding areas, affecting road travel and daily life
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Participants wave flowers as they march past a balcony from where North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un was watching, during a mass rally on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang. The military parade was held to mark the nations 70th birthday, but refrained from showing off the intercontinental ballistic missiles that have seen it hit with multiple international sanctions
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350.Org march for Climate Justice at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City, Philippines. Rise for Climate protests took places across the world to demand action
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Displaced Syrians take part in a protest against the regime and its ally Russia at a camp for displaced people in Kafr Lusin near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey in Syria's northern Idlib province
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An aerial view of houses damaged by a landslide in Atsuma town, Hokkaido prefecture, after an earthquake hit the northern Japanese island. Rescuers scrabbled through mud for survivors after the powerful earthquake sent hillsides crashing down onto homes, killing at least nine people and leaving dozens of people missing
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US Capitol Police arrest a protestor as Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his US Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court. President Donald Trump's newest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is expected to face punishing questioning from Democrats this week over his endorsement of presidential immunity and his opposition to abortion
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Damaged traffic boards and telecommunication relay poles after they were brought down by strong winds caused by typhoon Jebi in Osaka. The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years made landfall on September 4, the country's weather agency said, bringing violent winds and heavy rainfall that prompted evacuation warnings
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Myanmar journalist Kyaw Soe Oo is escorted by police after being sentenced by a court to jail in Yangon. Two Reuters journalists were jailed for seven years for breaching Myanmar's official secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis, a judge said, a case that has drawn outrage as an attack on media freedom
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A Somali soldier walks near the wreckage of vehicles at the scene of a blast outside the compound of a district headquarters in the capital Mogadishu. A Somali police officer says a number of people were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a checkpoint outside the headquarters after being stopped by security forces
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A Utair-operated Boeing 737-800 which skidded off the runway and caught fire during landing, at Sochi international airport, in the Russian Black Sea resort. Russia's transportation minister says a supervisor at the airport died during the emergency response after a landing airliner careered off the end of the runway, into a riverbed and caught fire. There were no deaths reported among the 164 passengers and six crew members aboard the Utair Boeing 737, but the Russian health ministry said 18 people were injured. The fire was extinguished within eight minutes
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Mourners attend Aretha Franklin's funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit
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Firefighters watch on as flames leap from a giant factory fire in the inner Melbourne suburb of West Footscray - More than 120 firefighters are fighting the fire, with 30 trucks and cherry picker aerial appliances on the scene which is sending large plumes of smoke across the city.
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People are evacuated after flooding in Swar township, Myanmar
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President Hassan Rouhani speaks at the Iranian Parliament in the capital Tehran. It was the first time Rouhani had been summoned by parliament in his five years in power, with MPs demanding answers on unemployment, rising prices and the collapsing value of the rial, which has lost more than half its value since April
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A police officer walks by the front of a Chicago Pizza and GLHF Game Bar at the scene of fatal shooting at The Jacksonville Landing. A gunman opened fire at a video game tournament killing multiple people and then fatally shooting himself in a rampage that wounded several others
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Migrants disembark from the Italian Coast Guard ship 'Diciotti' in the port of Catania, Italy. The vessel arrived with 177 migrants on board, but the Italian Interior Ministry denied them to disembark, calling EU member states to find a solution on how to distribute them. On 22 August, 27 unaccompanied minors were let off from the ship, assisted by Red Cross, UNHCR and Save the Children
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Rohingya refugees during a protest march after attending a ceremony to remember the first anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia
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US President Donald Trump sits with children during a tour of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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High waves hit Jeju Island, South Korea, as powerful Typhoon Soulik gradually approaches the Korean Peninsula
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A Palestinian man throws his child in the air following morning prayers marking the first day of Eid al-Adha celebrations on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem's Old City. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy
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South Korean Lee Keum-seom, 92, meets with her North Korean son Ri Sung Chol, 71, during a separated family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort on the North's southeastern coast. Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans met their Northern relatives for the first time since the peninsula and their families were divided by war nearly seven decades ago
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The flag of the United Nations flying at half-mast to mark the death of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, at the European headquarters in Geneva. Kofi Annan died on 18 August, aged 80
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Newly appointed Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan inspects the guard of honor on his arrival in the Prime Minister House during a ceremony in Islamabad. Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad, ushering in a new political era as the World Cup cricket hero officially took the reins of power in the nuclear-armed country
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Muslim pilgrims walk out after the Friday prayer at the Grand mosque ahead of annual Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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A man wades through flooded water in Kochi, Kerala state, India. According to reports, the region is on a high alert with schools and offices been closed due to the rising water levels of Periyar river after the gates of the Idukki reservoir were opened. The area has been hit by heavy rains that caused floods and reportedly killed at least 65 people
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets schoolchildren after his speech as part of India's 72nd Independence Day celebrations which marks the 71st anniversary of the end of British colonial rule, at the Red Fort in New Delhi
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A large section of the Morandi viaduct upon which the A10 motorway runs collapsed in Genoa, Italy. Both sides of the highway fell. Around 10 vehicles are involved in the collapse, rescue sources said. The viaduct gave way amid torrential rain. It runs over shopping centres, factories, some homes, the Genoa-Milan railway line and the Polcevera river
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Turkish President Erdogan addresses the 10th annual Ambassadors' Conference in Ankara. Global markets have reacted fearfully to Turkey's financial crash, which Turkish President Erdogan blames on a "political, underhand plot" by Donald Trump's USA. Last week the US doubled steel and aluminium tariffs against Turkey amidst diplomatic tensions over the latter's detaining of an American pastor
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NASA, The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 12, 2018 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity's first-ever mission into a part of the Suns atmosphere called the corona. The probe will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
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An activist confronts Virginia State Troopers in riot gear during a rally on the campus of The University of Virginia one-year after the violent white nationalist rally that left one person dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville, Virginia
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A man holds his son before Friday prayers at an evacuation centre in Sambik Bangkol village, in northern Lombok on West Nusa Tenggara province
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A rescuers stands next to a damaged tent in a flooded camping as storms and heavy rains sweep across France on August 9, 2018 in Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas, southern France. - The bad weather caused large power cuts and a man who was working in a summer camp went missing according to the gendarmerie
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A Palestinian girl smiles as she waits to receive aids at a United Nations food distribution centre in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza
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An Israeli soldier rides an armoured vehicle during an army drill after the visit of Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israel
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Usable items are salvaged from a home destroyed in an earthquake in North Lombok, Indonesia. The powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, killing a number of people and shaking neighboring Bali, as authorities on Monday said thousands of houses were damaged and the death toll could climb
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Accident investigators and rescue personnel work at the wreckage of a Junkers JU52 aircraft in Flims, after it crashed into Piz Segnas, a 3,000-metre (10,000-foot) peak in eastern Switzerland. Twenty people were confirmed dead after the vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, police reports said. The Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, built in Germany in 1939 and now a collectors item, belongs to JU-Air, a company with links to the Swiss air force, the ATS news agency reported
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Members of different security forces stand guard and take evidence after an explosion targeted President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. The Venezuelan Information Minister, Jorge Rodriguez, confirmed that President Nicolas Maduro was the victim of an attack with 'drone-type flying devices that contained an explosive charge', and that he escaped unharmed from the incident, which occurred during a military ceremony in Caracas
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People in Mbare celebrate after officials announced the re-election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) in Harare, Zimbabwe. The election was the first since Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military coup last year, and featured a close race between Mnangagwa and opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC Alliance). Deadly clashes broke out earlier in the week following the release of parliamentary election results, amid allegations of fraud by Chamisa and MDC supporters
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A supporter of the ruling ZANU-PF walks past a burnt vehicle at the party's offices a day after the clashes between security forces and opposition protesters in Harare, Zimbabwe
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A ceremony takes place in a hangar, to mark the return of 55 sets of remains of American troops killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. The ceremony was held five days after a US airplane transported the remains to South Korea from North Korea in a move expected to facilitate ongoing efforts to promote peace on the peninsula
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Veronika Nikulshina, one of four members of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group who were jailed for 15 days for staging a pitch invasion during the football World Cup final and were detained again after their release on July 30, is escorted by a police officer before a court hearing in Moscow
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A relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reads the safety report that has concluded that the planes controls were deliberately manipulated and that illegal interference by a third party cannot be ruled out. Flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March 2014
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'Things can be replaced - anything can be replaced - but you can never replace a life, whether it's a person or an animal'
Democrats have double-digit lead ahead of crucial November vote, polls suggest
The species only blooms for 8 to 36 hours, zoo officials say
‘All parties to the conflict and those states who support them [must] do everything in their power to prevent a massacre in Idlib,’ says new report
Officials collect biometric data including DNA and voice samples, former residents say
'She was a courageous woman of great dignity and confronted her disease with fortitude'
Driver loses control after hitting speed bump, officials say
Over two million are threatened by effects of water shortages
Trump was denounced by the Black Lives Matter supporter as an ‘egomaniacal, attention-thirsty, psychopathic, power-hungry delusional waste of skin and bones’
‘I’m really happy to be able to celebrate this season back at home’
Anti-inflammatory diets can be beneficial for those suffering from conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis
Londoner and hotel superfan Cathy Adams picks her favourites in the British capital
A London couple who love New York wanted a cool, minimalist garden to remind them of the High Line...
Liverpool's attack was the best in Europe last year, but Edinson Cavani, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar were not far behind
The England all-rounder hit a vital 41 as well as taking three important wickets in the final
One slot on the Pyramid Stage has already been filled, according to organiser Emily Eavis
Here’s who deserves to win this year’s key categories – and who probably will
The new novel by the 'Birdsong' author, about a Moroccan teenage runaway and a thirty-something American academic meeting in Paris, doesn't quite live up to its promise
The whole thing seems made to make you more mindful and less distracted
TalkTalk's new router is no longer 'super' – so what is it?
Xbox players can currently play with those on Switch, for instance – but nobody can play with those on PlayStation