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Government announces plans to unlock £330m from accounts not used for 15 years as part of plan to 'build fairer society'

Decision by New Delhi court paves way for take over of liquor baron Vijay Mallya's assets.

A 26-year-old man from New York City has been sentenced to a minimum of two years in prison after he forced his girlfriend to walk the streets naked a punishment.

Vietnamese cops have seized $3m (£2.2m) worth of heroin smuggled inside packets of tea, the communist state's largest ever drugs haul.

Six people have been arrested on suspicion of being members of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action. But the group is not the only extremist far-right organisation in Britain

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.

Replica of Noah's Ark breaks free and causes chaos, crashing into boats moored in harbour of Dutch fishing village Urk.

The big cat which bit "through the man's neck" escaped through the open door of the cage, but was caught later.

Monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights warns children among dead following bombings in rebel-held towns.

Images and video from the scene shows one of the train carriages in flames, as people were evacuated from the area.

Jewels belonging to the Al Thani collection, owned by the Qatari royal family, were stolen from the Palazzo Ducale in Venice.

It has been reported that a missile in April 2017 ended in disaster when a missile crashed into a city.

The Jet Airways pilots, a man and a woman, said to be a couple, began fighting in the cockpit soon after the the flight took off.

Cooke was arrested on Wednesday night (3 January) after she allegedly spewed anti-Semitic slurs and battered a San Francisco-based lawyer with her $300 glass purse.

People have been prohibited from going within 8km of Mount Agung's volcano crater ever since it erupted in November 2017.

Transport for London says it will sell some of its Tube fleet and lease them back to raise funds for new trains.

Donald Trump's lawyers hit Steve Bannon with a cease-and-desist order following revelations made about the president in a new book.

Dominguez had allegedly told authorities, "I'm going to kill the sexist racist homophobic President Trump today. Nothing you can do to save him."

During the investigation, police allegedly found 157 photographs of naked females, all under age 18, and links to three child pornography websites.

The 20-year-old woman from Ohio pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter after a 2-year-old girl died from fatal head injuries while in her charge.

The 26-year-old had first choked and punched his ex-partner in front of their two-month-old daughter because she allegedly messaged other men.

Flight 284 as well as its replacement aircraft had to return to Atlanta and passengers were made to spend the night at a hotel.

Bollinger's body was found in a wooded area on 29 December, just 24 hours after her family reported her missing.

"Alia's act also amounts to Shirq," Mufti Arshad Farooqui, chairman of the online fatwa department of Darul Uloom said.

The cause of the death is yet to be determined. Authorities are also investigating whether the mother lived in the same home where the baby was found.

World-renowned royal harpist Danielle Perrett is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy with her lover in 1984.

A 22-year-old man from Lancashire is said to have breached the Public Order Act at a demonstration by a group called the North West Infidels in Blackpool in March 2016.

A man in India chopped off his mistress' head in a jealous rage because he believed she was in a relationship with another man.

A police report seen by local media said that Merlin Larice Joseph had said he did not like the 'attitude' of an 11-year-old he's accused of killing.