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China will begin raising the retirement age for the first time in more than 70 years as the 1.4bn-strong country faces a shrinking and ageing population. 

Two of Britain's biggest newspaper publishers are taking the axe to their US workforces, slashing scores of jobs in the latest evidence of mounting financial pressures across the media sector. 

The weather in the UK this weekend is set to be warmer after an "especially cold" Thursday night. 

The lawyer for those affected by Capture software predating the faulty Horizon system says his "belief" is that the "report is going to be positive". 

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out scrapping the single-person council tax discount, saying decisions on the public finances had to be looked at "in the round". 

A delivery driver who died as he tried to stop his van being stolen "paid an immensely high price", a coroner has said. 

A former Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed for 16 months after he admitted stealing money from a man who died after collapsing. 

Scotland's first minister has said the decision to close the nation's only oil refinery was "premature" and could have been delayed by "two to three years". 

A teenager who appeared in Freddie Flintoff's Field Of Dreams series has died in a car crash. 

The decision to approve the UK's first coal mine for 30 years has been thrown out by a High Court judge.