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Thames Water has warned funding is due to dry up by the year's end, as it seeks to avert collapse through new ownership under its major lenders.

A British man jailed in Iran along with his wife has been handed an additional two-year prison sentence, according to the couple's family. 

The UK is experiencing a period of "historic and unprecedented change" to its climate, and extreme conditions that have caused recent heatwaves are here to stay, says a new report.

Sixteen and 17-year-olds will face an overnight social media curfew and the disabling of addictive features under government plans – but critics say it won't achieve anything as the settings can be turned off.

Labour MPs are demanding Andy Burnham sets a target of creating one million jobs in production over the next decade as part of a reindustrialisation strategy.

Kamala Harris has called for an investigation into America's controversial ICE agents following the deaths of three people in the space of a week.

A blood test which could detect early signs of Alzheimer's is being rolled out to patients via their GP as part of a "landmark" study.

At least 19 wildfires are burning across the UK as a third heatwave in as many months continues - causing a phenomonon experts have previously called a "firewave".

Police have named a man whose body was found in a suitcase as 34-year-old Dale Mundell.

The writer E Jean Carroll has received a multimillion dollar payout more than three years after she was awarded it by the jury in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump.