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Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, and his son and presumed heir James Murdoch, will appear before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport committee to answer questions from MPs relating to the ongoing phone hacking scandal.

Satellite images show mass graves following recent fighting in Sudan, a campaign group set up by Hollywood star George Clooney says.

Inmates in Ugandan prisons are subject to brutal compulsory labour, frequent violence, miserable overcrowding, and disease, Human Rights Watch said today in a report examining conditions in 16 prisons throughout the country.

Statue of first man in Space unveiled in London

A UK ticket-holder scooped the top prize on Tuesday night's draw, making it the country's largest ever lottery win.The draw results showed that the winner matched five main numbers and both the Lucky Stars to take the huge jackpot, which had been capped after a series of rollovers, made it the largest ever in the UK.British national lottery operator Camelot would not confirm where in the UK the winning ticket was bought, but they confirmed that nobody had yet claimed the prize.

A single UK ticket holder has won a record £161m by scooping the EuroMillions jackpot.Results showed that winner matched five main numbers and both the Lucky Stars to take the huge jackpot, which had been capped after a series of rollovers, made it the largest ever in the UK. No details about the winner were revealed.

Social network were the first to reveal rumours the massive prize had been scooped by someone in the UK after the draw and a National Lottery spokesperson later confirmed Britain has produced Europe's biggest lottery winner.

Despite ad campaigns featuring images of rotting lungs and crumbling teeth, Europe continues to have the highest smoking rate in the world.

Newspaper sales in Britain are on a downward slope and have been for many years. Now, after this Sunday past, 10 July 2011, the figures will, most likely, fall off a cliff. On Sunday, the country's biggest selling weekend newspaper, the News of the World, issued its last edition. The paper's front page headline, for anyone not in the know, appeared celebratory, announcing: "THANK YOU & GOODBYE" and adding underneath: "After 168 years, we finally say a sad but very proud farewel...

Jack Crabtree, a retired wildlife biologist from Lake Jackson, Texas, reportedly spotted the mythical Chupacabra near his home.Crabtree and his wife told ABC News that On July 4 they saw the hairless animal around a creek in the back of their house.

12 July Orange Order Demonstrations: A History of Violence

Trio jailed for sophisticated hacking of U.K banking system

Yesterday the journalist and free school campaigner Toby Young said he did not regard Rupert Murdoch as "the all seeing eye of Sauron", just as the Telegraph published a cartoon depicting the head of News Corp as Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series. Former Sun journalist Jon Gaunt also said that Mr Murdoch was no "Darth Vader."

Local authorities routinely have detailed emergency plans for natural disasters or man-made atrocities such as terrorist attacks, but Bristol city council seems miles ahead when it comes to security as it has recently unveiled a "top secret" which help prepare for a zombie attack.

An earthquake registering 5.6 on the Richter Scale shook the Pacific off Honshu, Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.

Andy Coulson is set to be arrested on Friday morning over allegations of his involvement in the News of the World phone hacking scandal

Residents of New Zealand's second city of Christchurch will be provided with more mental health and counselling services after they had to endure thousands of minor earthquakes and aftershocks over the last 10 months in addition to the major quakes of February and June.

The US has warned airlines of a potential threat from militants surgically implanting explosives.The Department of Homeland Security recently issued a memo to security officials and foreign counterparts alerting them to the threat of "body packing".

A female grizzly bear attacked and killed a man who encountered the bear and her cubs while he was hiking with his wife on Wednesday in Yellowstone National Park, park officials said.

A tsunami sparked by a powerful 7.6-magitude quake failed to materialise on New Zealand's shores, but Civil Defence says people should expect high tides within the next 24 hours.

The events of the last week may have shaken any faith that people may have had in journalistic standards in Britain.

The murder of Julia Martha Thomas has been solved as the head of the lady, murdered my Katie Webster in 1879 was found in a Richmond garden owned by David Attenborough

News of the World target families of 7/7 victims in latest phone hacking allegation

On Monday evening, it was alleged that the News of the World had hacked the phone of Milly Dowler just days after the teenager went missing near her home in Walton on Thames in 2002. As Tuesday passed, it was clear that the public was both outraged and shocked by the allegations.

The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to examine the source and antiquity of the treasure unearthed from the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram.

Queen ‘needs more money to maintain’ royal image

Former Conservative Chancelleor Nigel Lawson is said to have declared that the National Health Service is the closest thing the British have to a religion, a statement which seems to be proved truer by the day by the Trades Union Congress.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit one of Canada's most remote and unpopulated regions today as they continue their tour of the Commonwealth country.

A court-ordered search of vaults beneath a south Indian temple has unearthed gold, jewels and statues worth an estimated $22 billion, government officials said Monday.