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An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza has killed top Hamas political leader Salah al Bardaweel, officials of the militant group have said.

The chancellor has said she is "confident" 10,000 civil service jobs can be axed after numbers ballooned during the pandemic - as she seeks to cut more than £2bn from the budget.

Campaigners say a new 100% council tax premium on second homes in England will do little to ease the housing crisis, with one group describing it as a "naked cash grab".

The average family could be £1,400 a year worse off by the end of the decade, new analysis suggests.

The mother of a teenage boy who was shot dead has urged the public to come forward with any information which could help find her son's killer eight months on. 

Citrusdal is a seemingly idyllic farming town named after the fruit it grows. Nestled in a valley at the base of the Western Cape's Cederberg mountains, it's home to rows and rows of orange and lemon trees.

The civil service is to be told to cut more than £2bn from its budget as part of the government's spending review.

Bonnets at the ready, with 2025 marking two and a half centuries since Jane Austen's birth, does "bad lad" Mr Darcy still do it for Gen Z?

Donald Trump has not been president for a hundred days - he will pass that marker at the end of April. Already the assessments are in: this is the most disruptive and transformative start ever to a presidential term.

A pilot has died after his plane spiralled out of control and crashed at an air show in South Africa.

US defence department workers could face lie detector tests as the Pentagon investigates alleged leaks of national security information.

Widespread protests across Turkey have intensified after Istanbul's mayor - a key challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - was detained over allegations of corruption and links to terror organisations.

Istanbul's mayor has appeared before police for questioning on terror-related charges, a day after he was interrogated over corruption allegations.

Pope Francis is set to make his first public appearance since being admitted to hospital with double pneumonia.

The bomb squad has carried out a controlled burn of explosive chemicals found at a seafront home in Sussex.

One of the most important spies of the Cold War, whose covert passing of secrets to Britain helped change the course of history and avert a nuclear war, has died. 

The very idea that the government is brainstorming proposals to deport failed asylum seekers to third countries, with its echoes of the controversial Rwanda plan, will send alarm bells clanging for many Labour MPs. 

The iconic fight that devastated and defined George Foreman became the making of his reinvention.

Sir Keir Starmer has expressed concern about a lack of humanitarian aid in Gaza during a call with the King of Jordan.

At least six people, including a child, have died in southern Lebanon following Israeli airstrikes, the Lebanese state news agency has reported.