South Korea Warns Military Action An 'Option'

South Korea's defence minister, Kim Kwan-jin, has said that military action is an "option" to protect its citizens in its stand off with North Korea. The news comes as the United States has said it will "not accept" North Korea as a nuclear state, after...

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'Innocent' Man Freed After 42 Years In Jail

A man who was locked up for more than 40 years for starting a deadly fire at an Arizona hotel has walked free from prison after years of doubt about his conviction. Louis Taylor was just 16 when he was arrested following the inferno which killed 29...

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Iain Banks Announces He Has 'Months' To Live

Best-selling author Iain Banks has announced he has cancer and only several months to live. In a statement posted on his website, the 59-year-old Scottish novelist revealed he is in the final stages of gall-bladder cancer and is unlikely to live "beyond...

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Car Towed With Driver's Missing Body Inside

The body of a missing North Carolina woman has been found inside her wrecked car, three days after a highway patrolman ordered it to be towed away. Carolyn Watkins was reported missing by her family early on Monday after she failed to show up at work....

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SSE Fined £10.5m By Ofgem Over Mis-Selling

Energy provider SSE has been fined £10.5m by industry watchdog Ofgem for repeated mis-selling to householders. The regulator said the proposed penalty is the largest it has made against an energy firm. It relates to failures at "every stage" of the...

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First Charges In Savile Sex Investigation

A man is to be charged as part of the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal - the first charges under Operation Yewtree. Driver David Smith will be charged with five sex offences including two of indecent assault on a boy under 14 in 1984 and two of gross indecency...

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Rolling Stones Announce Return To Hyde Park

The Stones are rolling back into Hyde Park more than 40 years after they famously played a free concert there to thousands of people. The gig in the central London park is scheduled for July 6. "Hyde Park holds such great memories for us and we can't...

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Joss Stone: Two Guilty Of Plot To Kill Singer

Two men have been found guilty of plotting to rob and kill pop singer Joss Stone. Kevin Liverpool, aged 35, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 10 years and eight months. The sentencing of co-accused Junior Bradshaw, 32, was adjourned....

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Duncan Smith: MP Complains Over £53 Challenge

A Conservative MP has complained to the BBC about a radio interview in which a market trader claimed he lived off just £53 a week and challenged Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to do the same. Backbencher Dominic Raab has written to the...

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Derby Fire: Philpotts Face Jail Over Deaths

By Tom Parmenter, Crime Correspondent Mick Philpott made obscene hand gestures from the dock after his defence team had argued he was a "very good father" who had been "unable to grieve". It happened after he was heckled by members of his wife...

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