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The victim suffered multiple knife wounds during a frenzied attack in Battersea, south London.

The city said in a statement that the mayor, Femke Halsema, will discuss with sex workers and residents four options for the neighbourhood’s future.

Addressing a number of supporters from a platform outside court, he referred to “the mainstream media” and said: “It’s not me on trial today, it’s your freedom as journalists.

Jeremy Hunt has raised the prospect of repealing the ban on fox hunting. We look at some key questions about the ban.

A Nasa facility in West Virginia has been renamed in honour of a native of the state whose calculations helped put men on the moon 50 years ago. Katherine Johnson was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures and is now 100 years old. She did not attend Tuesday’s ceremony in Fairmont but was represented by two of her daughters, Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore. https://twitter.com/WomenNASA/status/1146056151471144962 https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1146107238655901699 News outlets report elected officials, the Nasa administrator and a former astronaut were at...

Network Rail is facing demands for answers after two workers were killed by a train on a section of track in south Wales. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said there will be an investigation into how the fatal crash happened on Wednesday morning near Port Talbot. A third casualty was treated for shock at the scene but was uninjured. British Transport Police (BTP) said it was too early to confirm whether the section of railway between Pyle and Port Talbot was...

35-year-old Mickey Joel Paulk was arrested last week following a chase in which he allegedly rammed an investigator’s vehicle

The Government has been accused of “dangerously fudging” data on its migration integration report. There is also little to no evidence of “woefully unambitious” targets to integrate ethnic minorities into the workforce being met, according to the Immigrant Council of Ireland. Joe O’Brien, the organisation’s integration outreach officer, said the data gives a false impression of Ireland’s progress on migrant issues. The Government’s Migration Integration Strategy is a three-year project to support migrants in participating fully in life in Ireland...

A seal who was found with a plastic frisbee ring stuck around his neck has been nursed back to health and released into the wild. The severely injured adult male grey seal was rescued by volunteers at Horsey beach in Norfolk in April and taken to an RSPCA centre at East Winch, near King’s Lynn. Staff there named him Sir David, after Sir David Attenborough, whose Blue Planet II series raised awareness of the environmental damage caused by plastic pollution....