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Barnaby Joyce says he is “not looking for sympathy” after explaining that footage of him lying on a Canberra footpath and swearing into his phone was the result of combining alcohol and prescription drugs.

The Labour candidate for the 29 February Rochdale byelection, Azhar Ali, has “apologised unreservedly to the Jewish community” for comments which he described as “deeply offensive, ignorant and false.”

More than 11 million working-age people in Britain don’t have basic “rainy day” savings of at least £1,000, according to a report that warns that the poorest households are struggling to build up financial resilience amid the cost of living crisis.

After an encouragingly narrow ­opening defeat by England in Rome, Italy arrived in Dublin in optimistic mood.

TWO young parents-to-be died in a horror crash at a “treacherous” junction where the Give Way sign was “turned the wrong way”.

DAREDEVIL billionaire Richard Branson has been left with shocking injuries after a horror bike smash.

Kelvin Kiptum dead: World record holder & London Marathon winner dies aged just 24 alongside his coach as world mourns LONDON Marathon winner and world record holder Kelvin Kiptum has died aged just 24. The Kenyan long distance runner was killed alongside his coach Garvais Hakizimana in a car crash. Kiptum won the London Marathon in April last year and broke the course record, crossing the line in two hours one minute and 25 seconds. Just months later he smashed the world marathon record in Chicago, completing the 26 mile race in just two hours and 35 seconds. International track…

Reuters exclusively reported that The United States on Wednesday added more than a dozen Chinese companies to a list created
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WEST HAM fans poured out of the London Stadium BEFORE half-time after slumping to 4-0 down at home to Arsenal.

Ivory Coast 2 Nigeria 1: Cancer-beating striker Sebastien Haller completes fairytale to win Afcon for managerless hosts SEBASTIEN HALLER was the comeback hero as the Ivory Coast lifted the Africa Cup of Nations in front of their own fans. Nigeria scored first in the thriller on Sunday night. But ex-West Ham forward Haller, now at Borussia Dortmund, netted a winner for 2-1 nine minutes from time to complete a remarkable personal journey as well. Haller, 29, had his career put on hold by cancer but returned to triumph on the continent’s biggest stage. Ivory Coast, who only just scraped through…