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Police have dropped an investigation into the disappearance of a boy from Oldham who turned up in France six years after going missing.

Alex Batty was taken to Spain by his mother, Melanie, in 2017 and they did not return home in defiance of a court order that had granted …

Three men who died in a dinghy overfilled with people trying to cross the Channel that “literally fell apart at the seams” were unlawfully killed, a coroner has found.

The conclusion follows Ibrahima Bah’s conviction for gross negligence manslaughter in relation to four deaths in the incident in the Channel …

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 12-year-old boy was stabbed to death while walking home from school in Birmingham.

West Midlands police said the victim was found by a member of the public on Tuesday afternoon after being stabbed in the stomach, and was …

Nick Clegg has given a robust defence of Meta’s decision to downgrade moderation on its social media platforms and get rid of factcheckers.

The changes on Facebook, Instagram and Threads,

which also included moves to promote more political content

NHL goalies already have enough to deal with – flying bodies, razor-sharp skates and pucks traveling at more than 100 mph – without delicious Tex-Mex snacks entering the fray.

But that’s what Washington Capitals goalie Logan Thompson had to contend with on Tuesday night, and he says it led to …

Alex de Minaur still believes he is good enough to win a grand slam despite

his demoralising defeat to Jannik Sinner

Israeli forces have besieged a Palestinian government hospital in Jenin and a nearby refugee camp in the heart of the city, as the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said the assault marks “a shift in … security strategy” in the West Bank.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday …

In the most recent late-night exhibition of his insatiable resilience and desire, as he again belied his ageing body to deliver another legendary performance, one of the most significant moments of Novak Djokovic’s quarter-final defeat of Carlos Alcaraz at the Australian Open came as the Serb clung desperately on to …

Elliot Malunga Delihlazo’s grandmother would say that her brother Bhesengile went to war and never came back. The family knew he had died in the first world war, but they never had a body to bury, only a memorial stone in the rural family homestead in Nkondlo in South Africa’s …

At one point during this humbling defeat by world No 1 Jannick Sinner over Alex de Minaur in the quarter-finals at Melbourne Park, the Australian’s mother Esther looked to the heavens. Her son was in the middle of his greatest test, a clash against the world No 1 as deep …