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Non-crime hate incidents guidance needs to be urgently changed because officers are "not the thought police", the shadow home secretary has said. 

Movie fans are being warned they must not sing along to music in the new Wicked film. 

Instagram is releasing a feature that will let users easily reset their algorithms, as the government strengthens its regulation of online safety. 

At least 12 soldiers and six Islamist militants have been killed after a suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan, the country's military has said. 

A family has been left "completely devastated" after a woman was found dead in a flat in South Lanarkshire. 

A 92-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of the rape and murder of a woman in Bristol in 1967 has been charged. 

President Joe Biden has approved sending anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine, as he seeks to ramp up support for Kyiv in his final days in office. 

Mourners including Liam Payne's One Direction bandmates and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy have gathered to say goodbye at his funeral. 

Inflation is rising faster than expected, with the headline rate hitting 2.3% in October, higher than the 2.2% forecast by economists and above the Bank of England's 2% target. 

Inflation jumped to 2.3% in October - a six-month high.