"The ick", "boop" and other informal modern terms are among the 3,200 new words and phrases that have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary.

Temperatures are expected to soar this weekend and into next week - with the Met Office predicting there could be a heatwave.

An alternative healer has been found guilty of the gross negligence manslaughter of a diabetic woman who died after she stopped taking her insulin at his slapping therapy workshop.

Sometimes nothing compares to the real thing - as Dublin's wax museum discovered after it unveiled a figure of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor.

Canada's gold medal victory at the Tokyo Olympics has been called into question by new information brought to light around the spy drone scandal which has seen head coach Bev Priestman suspended from the Paris Games, according to the country's Olympic Committee chief.

Max Verstappen set an impressive early pace to top opening practice at the Belgian Grand Prix in a session in which the world championship leader's expected grid penalty for Sunday's race was formally confirmed.

Arson attacks on multiple French train lines have thrown people's trips to the Paris Olympics into doubt.

At least 26 people - most of them children - have been killed in a massacre in Papua New Guinea that saw three villages burnt to the ground, the heads of victims hacked off and some bodies taken by crocodiles.

A rapist who threw a boy off a cliff to try and cover up his offences has been jailed for life, serving a minimum of 19 and a half years.

A criminal investigation has been launched into the police officer filmed kicking and stamping on a man at Manchester Airport.