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Sir Keir Starmer has defended cutting the winter fuel allowance for 10 million pensioners as he faces pressure to rethink the move. 

A former Metropolitan Police officer has been charged with sexual assault and rape of a woman he is alleged to have met while on duty. 

Titanic's iconic bow has lost part of its metal railings - with a 15ft section now lying on the sea floor. 

Samantha Fox threatened to knock a police officer's teeth out after a drunken incident on a British Airways plane, a court has heard. 

From the outside Israel seems increasingly divided and broken. 

The failure to return hostages held in Gaza has led to calls for a general strike that has seen closures around the country. 

Scotland's health secretary has rubbished claims he tried to buy Oasis tickets during a panel discussion on Alzheimer's disease at the SNP conference. 

A former childcare worker accused of being one of Australia's most prolific ever paedophiles has pleaded guilty to raping, sexually abusing and exploiting dozens of girls. 

Dawson's Creek actor Obi Ndefo has died at the age of 51, his family says. 

A tiger bit an animal handler's arm in an attack at an amusement park in Australia.