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Dominic Elliott died in hospital after being taken from the home of renowned British artist David Hockney (left) in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, yesterday. The 23-year-old was a close friend and assistant of the artist and helped him set up his equipment when he was working on his projects and for exhibitions. Mr Hockney even painted […]

While the BBC’s Comic Relief evening raised millions it also prompted complaints after ill-advised sketches containing explicit sexual references were aired more than hour before the 9pm watershed.

Following a daring helicopter escape from a prison in Saint-Jerome, police have caught one inmate while a second remains on the run. Inmate Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau has been arrested along with two others.

The Communities Secretary said he wanted to put an end to the ‘over-zealous culture of parking enforcement’.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig says the Beechcraft Premier I twin-jet had left Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Riverside Airport and crashed near the South Bend Regional Airport on Sunday afternoon.

Ruth Ann Steinhagen was an obsessed 19-year-old when she lured Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus to her Chicago hotel room with a cryptic note in 1949 and then shot him in the chest with a rifle.

By Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) – A change in the United States plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe will not prompt Russia to drop its opposition to the system, a senior lawmaker allied to President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department's practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is facing its biggest legal challenge this week with a federal civil rights trial on whether the tactic unfairly targets minorities.