Britons can look forward to one last scorcher tomorrow, with forecasters predicting temperatures could soar high enough to make it the hottest August day in a decade.

Police officers raided Moscow’s Tyoply Stan market yesterday to detain dozens of suspected illegal immigrants.

Alison Waldock, 51, was sacked from Queen Edith Primary School in Cambridge after 11 years as a dinner lady because she forgot a Muslim seven-year-old’s dietary needs and served her gammon meat for lunch.

Andre Yankey, 19, who claims he made the video when he was just 16, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal at Westminster Magistrates’ Court this morning.

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is threatening to kick Alex Rodriguez out of the game for life unless the New York Yankees star agrees not to fight a lengthy suspension for his role in the sport's latest drug scandal, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nearly 400 people across the country have been sickened by cyclospora, a lengthy intestinal illness usually contracted by eating contaminated food. But if you're looking to find out exactly where it came from, you may be out of luck.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Three women held captive in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the horrific physical and sexual abuse they suffered on a daily basis, prosecutors said Wednesday.

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Jurors will deliberate for a second day on Thursday over whether to hold former Goldman Sachs Group Inc trader Fabrice Tourre liable for defrauding investors in a complex deal tied to subprime mortgages. …