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Ernie Sedgwick was one of the last surviving British veterans of WWII when he died aged 101 last month

Tensions between the Russian ministry of defence and the rebel Wagner group over the city of Bakhmut have reached to “boiling point” as some 520 Russian troops were reported killed in Bakhmut in one day’s fighting

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wanted an £11bn boost to take account of the war in Ukraine and the rising threat posed by China, but has been forced to make do with far less

Many of the Mexican cartels claim to be looking out for the little people but the bodies stack up and vast quantities of illegal drugs continue to flow into the US

Ian Khama, the former of President of Botswana, is imploring UK MPs to attend a crucial Commons vote on Friday as efforts to ban trophy hunting imports gather pace

Thermite munitions - which have been used previously during the war in Ukraine - are particularly deadly because they burn rather than explode, reaching temperatures exceeding 2,400C that can easily sear through steel

Ebrima Nyabally, 19, was found dead in his room at the barracks in Tidworth, Wiltshire, at 9pm on February 25. His family were left devastated and are trying to find more information about his death

Ahmad Harris, who fled Kabul six months ago and has family in the UK, has compared the BBC's move to silence Gary Lineker to the tactics of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Ukraine-born Marina Ovsyannikova, 44, switched cars seven times and navigated her route to freedom using the stars during her escape from Russia after she interrupted a live TV broadcast to call out Vladimir Putin

Lord West, who was First Sea Lord from 2002 to 2006, said the war raging in Ukraine should force ministers to ditch troop cuts.

Veteran Baz Melia, a retired British Army Colonel, has called for more to be done to stop UK soldiers committing suicide after leaving the military after 22 have killed themselves in his army regiment

Natalee King, from Florida, America, was sent into a spiral after her first husband, John King, died in a work training accident in 2013 - but has now quit drugs and alcohol after getting the help she so desperately needed

Since her husband was killed on frontline of war against Russia, the mother-of-three has received no compensation despite six-month probe into his death, and is surviving on the kindness of strangers

Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said some of those on the soldier sick list were waiting for appointments with a dentist - and would be sent into battle "if the balloon went up"

An anonymous NATO official said that intelligence showed Russia’s losses in the assault on the eastern town of Bakhmut far outweighed Ukraine’s

The footage begins by showing Ukrainian soldiers emerging from a shallow trench and making their way across a battlefield before they blow up the area and capture the Russians

Sheila Fry and Annie IJpelaar were both trying to solve a 75-year-old mystery countries apart, but an at-home DNA test finally reunited the long-lost sisters after they were separated in the aftermath of WW2

One Russian soldier is seeing raised his middle finger, before he reaches for his rifle. The drone then flies up and hovers over the trench as they panic and drop for cover during fighting in Ukraine

Tymofii Shadura is seen smoking a cigarette in a clearing in a forest and says "slava Ukraini" before he is hit with a barrage of gunfire as the assailants are heard shouting abuse at him

Kathryn Walker, of Washington, abused her position as executor of Richard Walker's will and spend some of it on 'pure extravagance'

The schoolbooks are being altered to include a positive outlook on the full-scale invasion, avoiding the mention of Russia's humiliating battlefield performances, focusing instead on the eastern region of Donbas

Yevgeny Prigozhin's soldiers have joined the regular Russian army as they battle Ukrainian forces to capture Bakhmut, an eastern city that has become the frontline of the current conflict

China Government spokesman Wang Chao gave no indication of whether the rate of increase to be announced on Sunday at the opening of the National People's Congress's annual session in Beijing would be above or below last year's 7.1%

Before Russia's invasion, 10,000 people lived in Mariinka, a town in the suburbs of Donetsk, which has become an apocalyptic wasteland as Vladimir Putin's troops raze neighbourhoods to the ground

Nicolas Milton, the author of a new book, has examined the key role birds played in the Great War, and believes the film was not completely accurate as it was missing birdsong