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Northern Scotland’s Flow Country becomes world heritage site

The Flow Country, a vast and unspoiled blanket bog that carpets the far north of Scotland, has been made a world heritage site by...

Train driver and safety chief jailed over Spain rail disaster that killed 79 people

A train driver and former safety chief have been jailed over a...

Sadiq Khan ‘really keen’ to bring first-ever UK WrestleMania to London

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has further committed to his promise of delivering WrestleMania to the capital after holding talks with World Wrestling Entertainment...

Papua New Guinea gang massacre: Homes torched, victims beheaded and bodies taken by crocodiles

At least 26 people - most of them children - have been...

Scotland to have world’s first peatland UNESCO World Heritage site

Site to become world’s first peatland bog to gain world heritage status  Becomes Scotland’s first natural world heritage site, joining the...

What your rights are if you can’t travel to Paris Olympics

Arson attacks on multiple French train lines have thrown people's trips to...

Orcas sink British yacht in Strait of Gibraltar

“A yacht sailboat called Bonhomie William which was two miles off Camarinal...

The latest 2024 world passport rankings are in – and the UK is in the top five

If you grew up in the UK, it might have never even occurred to you that ‘passport privilege’ is a thing. You might’ve never...

Gracehill Moravian Church in County Antrim becomes UK’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site

Settlement becomes Northern Ireland’s second UNESCO World Heritage Site and the 34th UNESCO World Heritage Site in the UK Joins the likes...

France foiled four plots to sabotage Olympics

France has foiled four different plots to sabotage the Paris Olympics over...

WW3 fears soar as British ex-defence chief makes chilling warning

The Russian threats to Britain and Britons are "no longer theoretical", a former NATO chief said in a chilling warning.Lord George Robertson, who served...

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