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David Ballantyne Smith, 58, gathered a mass of classified information for Russia while working as a security guard in the British Embassy in Berlin

The violent scenes outside Farmfoods supermarket in Longton, Staffs, were caught on camera by shoppers arriving at the precinct at lunchtime on Sunday

At Winchester Crown Courtt 'respected' mariner Michael Lawrence was cleared of manslaughter but found guilty of failing to maintain a proper lookout and failing to maintain a safe speed

A body has not yet been found in the search for Nicola Bulley and the "open-minded" Lancashire Police force was now probing other possibilities, including that the mortgage advisor was snatched

Anna Pitt-Stanley Dean Ellwood, her partner, live in Splash Cottage, beside the field when a 17-year-old Prince Harry had a rendezvous with Sasha Walpole

Mum-of-two Nicola Bulley vanished while walking her dog by the river in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, close to two weeks ago on January 27

Internet-monitoring group NetBlocks said on Wednesday that Twitter had been blocked on several networks across Turkey, with the filtering having been applied on major internet providers

Peter Faulding, the founder of private forensic searchers Specialist Group International (SGI), was drafted in to help the river search with SGI's high tech sonar equipment

Ceirra Zeager had a racing heart when she danced with a boy for the first time at her winter formal, and said it continued to pound long after she had returned home

The annual survey saw 105,598 readers vote for the worst places/towns to live in England with some locals also offering an insight on what it's really like to live there

Santosh was catching serpents with a friend and had posed with one of the snakes around his neck shortly before the lethal bite in Jamua Village, Giridih District, India

Five generations of the family helped Ho Thi Yen celebrate her 110th birthday in Hoang Mai Town, Nghe An Province, Vietnam, on Friday January 27

More than 5,000 people have now died and hundreds of buildings have been razed to the ground, in the aftermath of one of the deadliest natural disasters this century

In a victim impact statement read out in court, one of Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick's victims said his crimes "changed" her, forcing her "into survival mode"

All the fisherman had to cling to was a plastic bottle which miraculously kept him afloat for nearly a day and a half before he was found off the coast of Malaysia

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A video shared on Twitter showed residents in Yakutsk, Russia, plunging themselves into the ice cold waters of the Lena River to mark the Orthodox Epiphany

The Big Help Out, on the bank holiday Monday, would happen in conjunction with charities including the Royal Voluntary Service, the Scouts, NCVO, Rotary, and the National Trust

The "blackout challenge" on TikTok, also referred to as the ‘choking challenge’ and the ‘pass-out challenge, involves participants asphyxiating themselves until losing consciousness

The students had been headed home to Arkansas, in the US, from Jackson Hole after visiting Jackson Hole Bible College, when they were involved in a deadly pile-up

The teenager stabbed Kayla Green during huge brawl after a parade in Mount Vernon, New York State, US, marking the state championship won by the high school boys' basketball team

Ivy had won Sense's Young Sibling of the Year award for her advocating for carers' support and next planned to campaign for the government to tackle the issues facing the NHS

David Garcia Thomas, an London-based IT executive, became trapped between the Tube train and platform edge after he fainted and was subsequently dragged some distance

Property developer and polo player Kuldip Singh Dhillon, who owned a large estate in the Gloucestershire countryside, is believed to have died at a family wedding in India this week

Paramedic Gareth Wyn Evans attended the family home in Newtown, Powys after being told spina bifida sufferer Kaylea was found not breathing