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North League candidate for Governor of Lombardy and former Mayor of Varese Attilio Fontana later apologised for the remarks made on Radio Padania.

Jan 15, 2018

Dolores O'Riordan, Cranberries frontwoman and singer of songs such as Zombie and Linger, has died at the age of 46.

Jan 15, 2018

Polish-born Marek Zakrocki launched a drunken and chaotic spree on the streets of Harrow in North London culminating at Spicy Night restaurant.

Jan 15, 2018

Japan claims that a Chinese vessel spotted last week near the contested Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands was a nuclear-powered attack submarine.

Jan 15, 2018

Police in Denmark have charged more than 1,000 children with child pornography offences after they used Facebook to share footage of a 15-year-old couple having sex

Jan 15, 2018

A controversy erupted in Banks, Oregon, after high school teachers erected LGBT rainbow flags in their classrooms. Parents accused them of taking down the Stars and Stripes

Jan 11, 2018

Victory in Barnet council elections could prove a symbolic achievement for Jeremy Corbyn's party, which was blighted by a string of antisemitism controversies.

Jan 11, 2018

James Truscott and Maximum Martin had both consumed fentanyl, the super-strength synthetic opioid fentanyl which killed Prince. Joshua Lambert-Price is yet to have an inquest

Jan 10, 2018

Greater Manchester Police rushed to St Joseph's Church on Gorton Road after devil mask-wearing subjects robbed a priest and the charity box.

Jan 10, 2018

The Myanmar military has admitted killing 10 Rohingya people whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Inn Dinn village.

Jan 10, 2018

Acid attacks in London rose significantly in London last year according to data revealed by the Metropolitan Police.

Jan 10, 2018

Metropolitan Police hunt two armed robbers blamed for string of robberies on shops and banks in capital.

Jan 10, 2018

Chaos erupts in Sri Lankan parliament as ruling United National Party politicians clash with opposition over corruption allegations at central bank.

Jan 10, 2018

Police rushed to the scene after receiving a number of calls from terrified residents on Roden Street, just off Grosvenor Road in Belfast.

Jan 09, 2018

Friends of the Earth complained to the UN that the EU withdrawal bill, designed to create a smooth Brexit, may have breached international environmental law.

Jan 09, 2018

Abu Omer – known as "White Beard" thanks to his impressive facial hair – was arrested in Mosul at the beginning of the year

Jan 09, 2018

Christopher Hauptmann, 44, did not contest a bigamy charge relating to his marriage to Kaylee Durovick while he was already wed to her mother Shannon Deitrich.

Jan 08, 2018

Equine gift to Chinese leader at opening of state visit by French president follows present of panda to Macron's wife Brigitte.

Jan 08, 2018

Mohammad Azeemuddin, head of India's oldest Sunni Muslim seminary, Jamia Nizamia, announced on New Year's Day that Muslims should not eat prawns.

Jan 08, 2018

37-year-old Lauren Pollock accused of assaulting and kidnapping her own mother alongside ex-army boyfriend.

Jan 08, 2018

Three doctors said Spanish prisoner Gonzalo Montoya Jimenez was dead. His relatives came to say a final goodbye in the autopsy room. Then he started snoring.

Jan 08, 2018

Scandinavian Airlines has the right to demand that air hostesses do not wear religious headscarves, according to Sweden's Discrimination Ombudsman.

Jan 05, 2018

Andrew Lee admitted to sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13 at Hull Crown Court, but avoided jail.

Jan 05, 2018

One of James Bulger's killers, Jon Venables, has been charged with chlid pornography offences, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

Jan 05, 2018

Bruce and Schrell Darlene Hopkins were found guilty of homicide under by a court in Girona, Spain, where they were living at the time.

Jan 04, 2018

The research highlighted a widespread lack of agreement among the English as to the definitions of North and South.

Jan 04, 2018

The upskirter committed the crime on the 12.35pm train from Liverpool Street to Rayleigh on 22 December, British Transport Police said in a statement.

Jan 04, 2018

Trehalose, found in a range of products from cakes to noodles, is metabolised by the killer bacteria Clostridium difficile (C. diff), an infection that attacks the bowels.

Jan 04, 2018

Harumafuji, only the fifth non-Japanese wrestler to reach the sumo wrestling's ultimate yokozuna rank, was fined 500,000 yen for hospitalising fellow Mongolian athlete Takanoiwa.

Jan 04, 2018