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Retailer plans US expansion and overhaul of Regent Street branch in battle to compete with key rivals Fake snow is falling and a hyperactive elf is hopping around on the pavement, geeing up the crowd pressed against the windows of Hamleys toy store, wh…
Deborah and Karl Rakos from Darlington had not been in touch with family since SundayA British couple reported missing after a volcano erupted on an island in New Zealand have made contact with concerned relatives.Karl Rakos, 57, and Deborah Rakos, 50,…
Brigadier Priyanka Fernando convicted of public order offences in private prosecutionA senior member of the Sri Lankan military has been convicted of public order offences in London and fined thousands of pounds after a court ruled he is not protected …
Remains of 23 victims arrive in Hanoi following repatriation of further 16 to their hometowns days earlierThe remains of the last 23 of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a lorry near London in October have been brought to Vietnam.The remains of the 23…
Beijing opens five posts in past two years as US is caught ‘in a period of limbo’ and Australia trails at 27th China has ambitions to rival the US as the world’s diplomatic superpower with Beijing’s foreign affairs ministry running more embassies and c…
The English fast bowler said he was racially abused at a match in Mount ManganuiThe New Zealand race relations commissioner Meng Foon has labelled racist abuse of English bowler Jofra Archer on Monday “utterly disgusting”, as the country’s minister for…
Foreign Office responds after leaked China cables appear to confirm brainwashing centresThe UK has urged China to give United Nations observers “immediate and unfettered access” to detention camps in Xinjiang, where more than a million people from the …
Allan and Wilma Hyrons found in Sulu province where they had been held by Isis affiliatesTroops in the Philippines have rescued a British national and his Filipina wife who were abducted by gunmen at a beach resort last month and taken to the jungle hi…
The Briton’s death and a trial with the issue of consent at its heart have transfixed the countryWhen Grace Millane’s parents bid their daughter farewell on her round-the-world adventure in September 2018, they never imagined that one day they would be…
A jury in Auckland has decided a 27-year-old, whose name has been suppressed, knowingly killed the British touristA 27-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of Grace Millane, a British backpacker who disappeared a year ago in Auckland after …
Judge tells jury that to return a verdict of murder they must be sure the accused intentionally killed Millane by strangling herJustice Simon Moore has summed up in the murder trial of Grace Millane in Auckland’s high court, telling the jury that while…
Last British governor of region urges Foreign Office to object to Chinese remarksChris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, has warned that China’s threat to overrule the Hong Kong judiciary represents a dramatic threat to the autonomy of th…
Simon Cheng, who worked at consulate, alleges repeated mental and physical abuseA former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong has alleged he was tortured while being detained in China during a 15-day ordeal in which he said he was accused of …
Defence closes with experts discussing how BDSM practices have become more mainstream and socially acceptableThe defence has finished laying out its case in the Grace Millane murder trial, putting forward an expert in modern sexual practices who told t…
Families of Essex lorry victims told neither UK nor Vietnam will fund repatriationImpoverished relatives of the 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex last month have been told that neither the British nor Vietnamese governments will bea…