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The chief inspector of prisons has said the recent spate of prisoners being released too early is "a symptom of a system that is close to breaking point". 

Denmark is regularly ranked as one of the happiest countries in the world - with a cosy international reputation as the home of hygge and Lego, the idealistic fictional prime minister Birgitte Nyborg in Borgen and the woolly jumpers of TV detective Sarah Lund. 

The King will lead the nation in a two-minute silence during a Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph later this morning.

When 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana got into a taxi on 29 July last year, it was the first time he'd left the family home on his own in more than two years.

Ghislaine Maxwell has said she is "much, much happier" since being moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas, leaked emails reveal.

Syria has carried out pre-emptive operations targeting Islamic State cells - arresting 71 people during 61 raids.

A man has been charged with attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in the neck in Birmingham city centre.

Former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter Quentin Willson has died.

The family of a Kenyan woman allegedly murdered by a British soldier have told Sky News they are "very happy" that extradition proceedings against him have begun.

A third body has been pulled from rubble after a boiler tower at a thermal power plant collapsed in South Korea.