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A police officer has been seriously injured after being hit by a stolen PSNI car.

Five people have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organisation has said - as Brazil investigates two suspected cases.

The Metropolitan Police have taken over an investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found in a van in Leicester on Wednesday.

Scores of people have been killed following a blast at a building in northeastern Myanmar.

A former chief executive of Marks and Spencer has been appointed by the government to get more than one million young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) into work.

Israeli forces have captured a strategically important fortress from the Crusades, marking the country's deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

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Heavy rain is threatening to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos.  

An injection that eradicated entire tumours in patients with otherwise treatment-resistant cancers in a trial has been praised for its "striking" benefits.