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A grandmother is to undergo an operation to remove an eye after catching a painful bug in a holiday pool.

A family of three and their pet dog have died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in a caravan in Cornwall.

A 50-year-old man has drowned while swimming in the sea off the coast of Sharm el-Sheikh, according to the British embassy in Cairo.

As the Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was granted bail on murder charges last week, it has emerged that his brother also faces charges over the death of a woman.

A Banksy artwork which was taken from a north London street has been withdrawn from sale in Miami, where it was due to be auctioned.

Multi-millionaire Dennis Tito, who paid an estimated $20 million to be the first 'space tourist', plans to launch a manned mission to Mars.

The mural Slave Labour, which shows a young boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting, was chiselled out of a wall in Wood Green, north London last weekend.

The Lib Dems have been accused of attempting to cover up claims that former Lib Dem chief executive Lord Rennard sexually harassed female activists.

Angela Merkel's government has been criticised after sales of German weapons to Gulf states more than doubled in 2012.

Bulgari in Beverly Hills is exhibiting jewellery worth millions from the collection of the late actress Elizabeth Taylor.

A homeless man in Kansas City, USA, could receive a huge reward for returning a diamond ring

Astronauts fielded questions from around the world in the first live Google+Hangout web chat with Nasa.

Festival commemorates deliverance of Jews from genocide in 6th century Persia, and celebrations have been getting bigger and wilder in recent years.

Tributes have been paid to Poonam Bhattal, who died after falling from a ski lift during a school trip to the Italian Alps.

Homeless drug addict who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia guilty of beheading British grandmother.

Students sent email asking if they would like to take class A drug as part of clinical trial.

New owners in Leeds buy Lake View Court flat - and now plan to demolish it.

Overwork blamed as only one in eight fathers is the main storyteller to their children.

French children found dead at their home near Paris.

Police looking for Todros Gryhaus after rabbi breaches bail condition

South Gloucestershire shoppers horrified after Tesco suffers another embarrassing contamination incident.

Liverpool council agrees to sell homes to locals for £1 across Granby Triangle's 'Four Streets' and Arnside Road.

Judge Desmond Nair lays out conditions of athlete’s bail.

Campaigners say honour in Brighton is the least that curry pioneer deserves.

Paralympic athlete released on bail by Judge Desmond Nair after four-day hearing in Pretoria.

Men from Birmingham deny plotting to use home-made explosive against anti-Islam group.

Controversial Bradford West MP refused to take part in discussion after discovered he was debating with an Israeli.

Jailed Palestinian has become symbol of questionable and illegal practices by Israeli government, says Nadin Rayya.

Joseph Ratzinger resigned over shocking Vatileaks revelations, Italian newspaper La Repubblica claims.