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A Blue Origin rocket has exploded in a fireball during a late-night launchpad test - shaking nearby homes.

Thousands of people in Kent have been warned that disruption to their tap water supply is likely to continue over the weekend.

Allies of Andy Burnham will form a new "council" of cross-party figures to discuss working together to stop a Reform UK government.

It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign visitors.

A former chief executive of Marks and Spencer has been appointed by the government to get more than one million young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) into work.

Five people have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organisation said - as suspected cases were investigated in Brazil and Italy.

A robot has become so good at playing table tennis that at times it defeated elite human players, in what has been hailed as "a longstanding milestone for AI".

Disney has accused Donald Trump's media regulator of an "unlawful" attempt to suppress free speech after it was forced to apply for early licence reviews for its eight ABC TV stations.

The UK has helped the French navy intercept an oil tanker under international sanctions that was coming from Russia, alleged to be part of its shadow fleet.

A meteor travelling at 75,000mph caused a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the US on Saturday afternoon.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has visited the province hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials.

Scores of people have been killed following a blast at a building in northeastern Myanmar.

Disruptive plane passengers could find themselves banned from flying by all airlines under a new UK government proposal.

There is not even a deal on the table but there is little surprise in the City that easyJet has become the latest big UK name to face takeover interest.

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

Israeli forces have captured a strategically important fortress from the Crusades, marking the country's deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

Heavy rain is threatening to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos.  

Major rule changes have been announced ahead of the 2026 World Cup - including expanded powers for VAR, 10-second substitutions and a crackdown on tactical timeouts.

An Austrian man has been jailed for 15 years for plotting to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during her record-breaking Eras tour.

Hundreds of young people have protested outside a military base in Kenya over US plans for an Ebola quarantine zone in the country.