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Nearly 200 flood warnings issued over meteorologists' fears that river water levels will continue to rise.

The Duchess of Cambridge will view some of the most extraordinary specimens to ever go on show at the London museum.

BBC Trust chairman faces grilling over Jimmy Savile and Lord McAlpine Newsnight scandals

11-year-old Edmonton school girl raped for hours in brutal attack during rush-hour.

Police focus on abandoned potassium mines in hunt for Count Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, accused of killing wife, children and dogs.

Greenpeace fears environmental warning signs as pack ice in Northeast Passage shrink enough to allow voyage of 100,000-tonne vessel.

Zambia is one of the world’s biggest producers of copper, yet is one of 20 poorest countries in the world.

Documentary shows how rare brain disease leads victims to decline to child-like state.

Nazis' Waffen SS member Siert Bruins executed Dutch resistance fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in 1944

Video of 'the new planking' becomes instant internet sensation.

Essex PC accused of telling east London patrol colleague black people 'look like monkeys'.

Carlos Tevez caught over the speed limit in Morecambe after Blues reserve game

10 children die in Syrian village of Deir al-Asafir in attack by Assad forces' MiG fighter.

IBTimes UK takes an exclusive look at the significant switch in auto industry trend in China

Daily Telegraph shocks head of church with details of Gavin Welby's secret past including affair with JFK sister.

Police swoop on north London address near scene of attack.

South Yorkshire foster parents want three children returned after row over Ukip membership.

Police believe two gunmen waited for up to 40 minutes for their 31-year-old businessman victim shot in driveway of his home.

New Zealand tops the list while UK just manages to bag 10th slot on Forbes' Best Countries for Business list.

North braced for flooding after death toll in southwest and Midlands reaches four.

Gutierrez told Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office she did not know touching the endangered species was illegal.

Shi'a Muslims gather at the Imam Abbas shrine in Karbala, Iraq, to mark Ashura.

Woman succumbs to fatal injuries in hospital.

Unknown number of people still missing, many more feared dead.

Torrential rain is forecast for the weekend, with the ground already sodden in many parts of England and Wales.

Mark Thompson appears before the Pollard Review, a BBC-appointed inquiry into the shelved Newsnight investigation of the late Jimmy Savile.

Adults in Singapore are the least likely to express their emotions, while people in the Philippines are the world's most emotional.

Roadside bomb kills seven people during a Shia Muslim procession, despite ban on mobile phone services to prevent attacks.

Street entertainer goes into cardiac arrest while making children's balloon animals.