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The UK financial system is at increased risk from artificial intelligence (AI), the Bank of England has said.

There has been a marked increase in global energy prices amid fears of a prolonged resumption to hostilities between the US and Iran.

A fifth British national has been identified as a victim of a wildfire in southern Spain in which killed more than a dozen people.

More than 2,700 people in England and Wales died from heat-related causes during May and June's record hot spells, experts estimate.

Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders star Sam Neill has died aged 78.

Japanese authorities have captured a bear following a multi-day search that saw nearly 100 schools close.

For only the third time in its history, the British electricity system operator has warned of tight supplies in the summer months.

The persistent disadvantage gap in schools will be an "early challenge" for the next prime minister, researchers are warning.

With Andy Burnham seemingly heading unchallenged to Number 10, the spotlight is on him and his closest allies for clues about their policy agenda.

Vapes will be sold in plain packaging, and enticing flavour descriptions will be banned under a proposal to stop e-cigarettes being marketed to children.

The number of Britons in their 50s who take part in bowel cancer screening remains critically low, the NHS has warned.

Communities have been left stranded, vehicles swept away and roads under two metres of water as severe flooding hit parts of China.

A new vaccine to combat a strain of Ebola spreading across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will soon be tested on adults in the UK, under plans announced today.

Senators have demanded the US military urgently reveals the findings of its probe into a deadly missile strike on an Iranian school.

The Gloucestershire cheese rolling contest's most successful ever competitor has been beaten by a German YouTuber. 

A man suspected of murdering his wife and two children in the UK has appeared in court in South Africa, as their causes of death have been revealed.

A former Spanish prime minister has come under fire for saying France's World Cup team had "no French players".

A Qatari tanker has been hit as it travelled through the Strait of Hormuz, suffering significant damage, Qatar's foreign ministry has said.

A cross-party group of MPs has told prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham he should allow councils to increase council tax by as much as they want.

Personal Independence Payments (PIP) are "not fit for purpose" and can create barriers to work, while the assessment process can be "dehumanising", a new report found.