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Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey has unveiled his new top team after the party took a record number of seats at the general election. 

Sky News' Data and Forensics team has spoken to four experts to answer the question - how does a pager or hand-held radio explode? 

The owner of the UK arm of the restaurant chain TGI Fridays (TGIF) has gone into administration, putting 4,500 jobs and 87 outlets at risk. 

Ten years on from the referendum, this appearance from John Swinney in Edinburgh was the most candid from any SNP leader in the past decade.  

A health watchdog has warned that failings identified within NHS maternity services across England are "more widespread" than previously thought. 

One of the City's most prominent fund management groups is heaping fresh pressure on the environmental record of Britain's water industry by calling for suppliers to take steps to curtail…

Blasts have been heard in Beirut a day after 12 people were killed by pager explosions across Lebanon. 

More than 5,000 firefighters are battling more than 100 wildfires in northern Portugal, where seven people have died and hundreds of thousands are in danger. 

From exploding Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies to a cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear facility, Israel is suspected of carrying out a number of secretive operations over the years. 

In Hull, in the aftermath of summer riots that saw an asylum hotel attacked, shops looted, and cars burned, two strong feelings remain.