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A British woman jailed in Egypt for taking hundreds of painkillers into the country has lost an appeal against her conviction, it has been reported.

The scream echoed around the large room. “Y-e-e-e-s-s-s-s! Y-e-e-e-s-s-s-s! 
Y-e-e-e-s-s-s-s!”

The death toll has risen above 100 after a ferry capsized and sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzania state radio reported.

Amazon has unveiled a range of new Echo smart home devices and introduced a smart plug that enables users to control any power socket using their voice.

A four-year-old British boy has drowned in a “packed” family swimming pool at a Tenerife hotel.

Authorities said they still don’t know why an employee at a US software company in Wisconsin went in to his office with a pistol and extra ammunition and began firing on his colleagues, seriously injuring several, before he was fatally shot by police.

Authenticity is very much in the news, and rightly so. Whether it’s ‘fake news’, double standards or promises that are never kept, trust seems to be at an all-time low.

The golfing world has been left in a state of shock after one of the game’s top young prospects was murdered on a course in the United States.

FOR decades, speculation has raged over the exact nature of Bert and Ernie’s extremely close relationship on long-running children’s TV show Sesame Street.

Shelby Foote, an American novelist and historian, ­suggested that a university is a group of buildings gathered around a library. In Mosul, Iraq, this was indeed the case. In fact, the ­university library there was not only the beating heart of the University of Mosul but of the city itself.

A man boogie boarding off a Cape Cod beach was attacked by a shark on Saturday and died later at a hospital, becoming the state’s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years.

Storm Florence has battered the eastern US coast with non-stop rain, surging seawater and howling winds.

Hollywood’s fiction can hide or shine a spotlight on reality of life in the US, writes Susan Dalgety.

It is probably the most terrifyingly accurate weather report you’re ever likely to see.

Theresa May marked World Suicide Prevention Day with a tweet which said: “Seventeen per cent of people will experience suicidal thoughts in their lifetime – and if you are worried about someone, step in and ask if you can help.”

Alena Dishoni lives ­nearly 8,000 miles away, but we have much in common. As farmers, we both depend on the climate and we can both see it is changing for the worse.

So, they were just two innocent tourists desperate to see Salisbury Cathedral. We can all rest easy and dismiss the nonsense spouted by the UK Government about Russian assassins or anything silly like that.

A cartoon of Serena Williams has provoked a furious backlash from critics who deemed it racist and offensive.

The prime suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack have claimed they visited Salisbury as tourists.