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Equitalia, Italy's tax collection agency, has formally notified Diego Maradona it will begin proceedings to freeze his £33m assets.

Former vice-president feared terrorists could trigger fatal heart attack by hijacking wireless defibrillator.

Eleven people have died after a small tourist plane crashed in south-east Belgium.

Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk admits buying the Lotus Esprit car which appeared in the Spy Who Loved Me for £616,000.

Unnamed girl smuggled into Britain from Somalia for organised gangs to harvest her organs for transplant operations.

Violin played by Titanic bandmaster sells for record amount at auction in Wiltshire.

Expulsion could leave former premier open to fresh criminal investigations.

Mouth cancer cases have risen by more than 25% in 10 years, partly caused by increases in the number of sexual partners, say scientists.

Doctor claims snipers in Syria bet cash and cigarettes on shooting unborn babies.

Australian Defence Force training exercise blamed for catastrophic bush fires in New South Wales, Australia.

Suspect's age makes attacks 'even more shocking', say police.

Four men charged and another man arrested for toddler rape and murder in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg.

Police have arrested a man in China's northwest region of Ningxia suspected of stabbing his pregnant wife, six of her relatives, including two elderly grandparents and two young nieces.

Greek police struggle to identify child found living with Roma, while parents of missing Madeleine McCann say case gives them 'hope'.

Harrods joins World Society for the Protection of Animals for certification of 'wild' Kopi Luwak beans.

Controversial paintings by Mauro Maugliani, Gonzalo Orquín and Luis Serrano at L'Opera art gallery in Rome defaced by vandals

Advertising executive says she spoke to mothers who fed their children blended McDonald's.

Fears unofficial national day led to several attacks at Wingfield Academy in Rotherham.

Rome martial court founds 90-year-old Nazi caporal guilty over WWII Cephalonia massacre.

Discovery in Ukraine of 2013 TV135 has NASA scientists calculating chances of disaster

Four Santiago neo-Nazis carved swastikas into 24-year-old's body and cut him with broken glass before beating him to death.

Halloween attraction where women are pinned onto beds and smothered with pillows criticised as 'absolutely horrifying'

A couple in China sold their daughter to buy an Apple iPhone.

Head of Syria's military intelligence killed during clashes between regime forces and al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra.

Elmira Abdrazakova has been targeted by racist trolls on Twitter ahead of Miss Universe Pageant.

Officer angry she 'outed' herself over police radio and says force needs more understanding over transgender issues

England boss gets universal backing over joke to black winger Andros Townsend which tarnished World Cup 2014 achievement

Indian archaeologists have started digging at a ruined fort after a local religious teacher dreamed that 1,000 tons of gold lay buried there.

British man married Chinese woman despite having a wife in the UK.