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The species of python was not named Police in South Carolina have arrested a man who allegedly assaulted another guest at a motel with a four-ft (1.2m) python after a row over loud music. The […] […]

Papa Mody Mbaye suffered a brain injury A 13-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of an asylum seeker in the Benwell area of Newcastle. Papa Mody Mbaye, 30 and from Senegal, died in […] […]

Rescue: soldiers carry an injured woman after the 6.9 magnitude quake today in Qinghai province. About 10,000 were hurt as wooden and mud houses collapsed. At least 400 people were killed and thousands injured in […] […]

A 17-year-old charged with murdering a promising schoolboy footballer at Victoria station was granted bail at the Old Bailey today. The youth will remain in custody until 4 May when he will be subject to […] […]

“Inappropriate”: the bikini range included the polka-dot style with padded top to the right. The Primark discount clothing chain was forced to stop selling “sexy” padded bikini tops for young girls today following an outcry […] […]

A predatory paedophile has been locked up for more than three years after he was snared by an undercover detective who posed as a teenager online. Stuart Beddows travelled to Manchester from Wolverhampton last Christmas […] […]

A police watchdog has launched an investigation after a Taser was used on a man who was suffering an epileptic fit. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to independently investigate how Greater Manchester Police officers […] […]

Dawn French and Lenny Henry ending their 25-year marriage reflects the trend of couples divorcing after a lifetime together. But what should do you do if it happens to you? Regarded by many as having […] […]

A Wales council was criticised for the way it investigated complaints that a young boy was left alone with a convicted child abuser, it has been reported. The Public Services Ombudsman for Wales said Pembrokeshire […] […]

Kyrgyz President Mr Bakiyev Kyrgyzstan is on the brink of civil war and threatens to become a “second Afghanistan”, according to Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev. “As I understand it, Kyrgyzstan is on the verge of […] […]