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There was a worse than expected performance for retail sales last month, defying predictions of a consumer-led pick up from recession for the UK economy.

Taylor Swift has revealed her latest release is a "secret double album" - with 15 more tracks than fans were expecting.

Israel threatened a retaliation, and it came before dawn on Friday morning.

Israel has launched a strike against Iran in retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented missile-and-drone assault on the country at the weekend.

Rishi Sunak is to call for an end to the "sick note culture" in a major speech on welfare reform - as he warns against "over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life".

A public schoolboy was "on a mission" to protect himself from a "zombie apocalypse" when he tried to kill two sleeping students by attacking them with a claw hammer, a court has been told.

Donald Trump described the hush money case against him as a "mess" after the jury who will decide his fate has been selected.

The Allman Brothers Band guitarist and singer Dickey Betts has died aged 80, his family announced.

Kenya's military chief was among nine people killed after a helicopter crashed shortly after taking off.

About 85,000 places need to be created for the expansion of funded childcare by September 2025, the government has estimated - but campaigners warned the scheme is a "really ambitious game".

A Polish man has been arrested and charged with plans to help Russia's military intelligence carry out an alleged plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, say prosecutors.

Young people could be able to move more easily between the UK and Europe and stay longer to work, study and train under proposed plans by the European Union

Liz Truss's memoir broke the rules in place for ministers publishing works about their time in office.

Police in Los Angeles have said they are investigating whether Kanye West was involved in an alleged battery.

Kim Jong Un has released a song praising himself as the "friendly father" of North Korea.

A woman who stalked Harry Styles has been jailed and banned from seeing him perform.

FA Cup replays will be scrapped next season as concerns grow about the impact an increasingly congested calendar could have on player welfare.

Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell has been charged by police after he was arrested amid an investigation into the SNP's funding and finances.

Conservative peer Ruth Davidson does not think Mark Menzies will survive the week as an MP.

A masked gunman who shot at a car on a busy north London street in a "gang dispute" has been convicted.

This is a tale that's more than just a marmalade dropper. It's a story so astounding you have to pick yourself up off the floor.

A former senior civil servant criticised some of the policymakers behind the illegal migration bill, accusing them of "harbouring racist views" about immigrants, it has emerged.

A woman has appeared in court charged with murder following the death of another woman in Aberdeen.

A 170-year-old lizard specimen is to be taken back to its Jamaican homeland from Scotland as part of reparatory justice moves.

Meta's AI has told a Facebook user it has a disabled child that was part of a New York gifted and talented programme.

Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell, who is a former SNP chief executive, has been re-arrested amid a police investigation into the party's funding and finances.

The roads through northern Israel along the border with Lebanon are empty of cars.

Sir Keir Starmer said police should be involved in the case of suspended Tory MP Mark Menzies, who faces allegations he misused campaign funds.

A drug dealer accused of organising the execution of a man who was shot eight times as he left a party was caught entering Morocco in the back of a lorry, a court has heard.

A man wrongly jailed for 17 years for a rape he did not commit has said it is "too little too late" after receiving an apology from the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).