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A hunter is recovering in hospital in Alaska after being mauled by a bear before being shot in the leg during efforts to fend it off, US authorities said. 

Hollywood actor Michael Madsen has been arrested in California on a domestic violence charge. 

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed his government will do "everything we can" to preserve jobs at the steelworks in Port Talbot. 

The number of firms in England and Wales going bust last month rose by 16% year-on-year, according to official figures. 

The comedian whose joke was voted the funniest at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has said it isn't the best one in his show and it isn't the sort of gag…

Divers have entered the sunken superyacht as they continue to search for the bodies of six missing people, but face "significant challenges" during the rescue operation. 

The number of people who have died due to drug misuse in Scotland has increased. 

The headteacher of a school in Cardiff has congratulated four former pupils who won Olympic medals in Paris. 

Twenty-two people were on board the superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday. 

A serial rapist who committed a string of sex offences - including attacking a pregnant woman - has been handed an order for lifelong restriction.