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Parents and children at Stonegate Elementary School were distressed to find a 20-question English exercise that included sentences using phrases with colonial overtones.

Former Liverpool star Jermaine Pennant is reported to have been caught taking part in an online sex show with his glamour model wife Alice Goodwin.

Jill Messick was Rose McGowan's manager in 1997 - when the actress claims she was raped by Weinstein.

Mucktar Khan and Joshua Eduardo have been jailed at Inner London Crown Court after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Trident unit.

NYPD finds 4kg of deadly opioid drug inside fish and chilli packages in a cool box during vehicle search.

Serial convict Anh Nhu Nguyen posed as a survivor of the Grenfell Tower fire to claim charitable donations. He was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court.

BoE Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent calms frayed nerves following a volatile week on the stock markets.

An 11-year-old girl is in a critical condition after allegedly being stabbed multiple times by a 51-year-old male relative, West Midlands Police said.

The 24-Hour Challenge is the latest viral contest to be glamourise dangerous and potentially deadly behaviour among young people.

Belen Aldecosea said she had previously checked twice with Spirit Airlines that she could board the plane with Pebbles – a dwarf hamster medically acknowledged as an emotional support animal.

Academic detectives uncover A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels by George North as source for much of the Bard's work.

Seven members of the Arcade Circus in Western Australia face a total of 127 charges including kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault of a child and making child pornography.

Lovily Johnson, 22, charged with first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse following the death of her son Noah Edward Johnson in July 2017.

Matthew Robinson slipped through "significant" gap as he got off Stansted Express train at Bishop's Stortford station. Operating company Abellio faces legal action.

A Saudi Arabian father reportedly punished his son for being the victim of a sexual assault by burning his genitals with an iron.

The leadership at Cornell University, an Ivy League institution, have condemned the actions of some Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) fraternity members during a 2017 hazing intitiaion.

Dennis Batty was detained near at a holiday resort near Benidorm. Police in Alicante swooped on Batty five months after a UK court issued a European arrest warrant.

The North Korean government has launched a new beer with an "exclusive" recipe after leader Kim Jong-un lambasted the quality of imported lager from its neighbours in the South.

North Koreans lucky enough to own a mobile phone can play patriotic shoot-'em-up as propaganda war moves into video games.

The orange "Tesla"-stamped tablets are reported to each contain 240mg of MDMA – around double the current UK average.

Two policemen in South Africa are accused of homophobic attack on a gay couple found having sex in a car.

Katie Hopkins claims she has been detained at a Johannesburg Airport and had her passport confiscated on grounds of inciting racial hatred.

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte ordered the destruction of 20 sports cars worth $1.2m (£860,000), which had been smuggled into the country illegally.

Model Ivana Smit was found dead at the Persiaran Capsquare block in Kuala Lumpu, Malaysia. Ditch authorities believe her death may have been suspicious.

E-cigarettes are overwhelmingly healthier than tobacco smoke, and there is little evidence to suggest they act as a gateway for young people who then progress to smoking, PHE said.

Lee Mousley was working for Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust when police searched his home in March 2016 and found a horde of indecent images on his computer.

Inside the Welsh drugs 'lab' in Newport where 25-year-old Kyle Enos ran a sophisticated import/export business using bitcoin on the dark web.

Police in the Black Forest have identified suspects alleged to have pulled her out of a crowd of spectators and carried her over to the cauldron but the joke went wrong.

Former UN envoy for rhino conservation Esmond Bradbury-Martin had been major player in fight against illegal trade in horns and ivory.