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Anwar Driouich

Man caught with explosives jailed again after breaching court requirements
Anwar Driouich, previously convicted of possessing explosives and terror manuals, is back behind bars.

Truss called for patients to be charged for GP visits in 2009, document reveals

Woman tells court of frequent sex with R Kelly before she was 18

Police appeal to find man after alleged abduction and sexual assault of girl

Two men in court charged with murder over missing former teacher

The man alleged to be Nicholas Rossi

Alleged US fugitive claims he’s ‘coughing up blood’ in prison

Fencer Rhiannon Craig

Fencing champion gets all A*s to study medicine

A-level results

Student ‘overwhelmed’ after becoming first in her family to attend university

Jessica McGeown (left) opens her A-level results with her mother Samantha McGeown at Lagan College, Belfast

A-level grades down from pandemic highs but still above 2019 levels

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, right, shakes hands with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting in Lviv

Ukraine’s Zelensky hosts talks with UN chief and Turkey leader

A screengrab from Saudi state television of doctoral student Salma al-Shehab speaking to a journalist at the Riyadh International Book Fair in 2014

Leeds University doctoral student sentenced to 34 years in Saudi prison

A sign reading 'swimming prohibited' on a beach in Marseille in southern France

Hurricane winds and violent storms leave seven dead in France and Italy

Shailesh Vara visits to Atlas Women’s Centre

Northern Ireland legacy Bill open to negotiations, says Vara

People walking in the rain in London

Sunshine and showers on the way after heavy downpours

Benjamin Mendy arrives at Chester Crown Court

Benjamin Mendy told accuser ‘I have had sex with 10,000 women’, court hears

The Duke of Sussex (

Harry on surprise trip to Mozambique to promote wildlife conservation

Boys are narrowing the lead on girls when it comes to the top A-level grades (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Boys catching up to girls for A and A* grades this year

A CCTV image of Owami Davies

Missing nurse could be taking trains appearing dazed or confused, say police

Ryan Giggs denies headbutting ex after ‘completely losing self-control’

Lady Louise Windsor with her brother, Viscount Severn

Lady Louise off to St Andrews to study English after A-level success

Sadiq Khan blames spate of violence on school holidays, long days and heatwave

Finland prime minister Sanna Marin

Finland PM denies taking drugs at ‘wild’ party

School pupils in a lesson

Student stranded by pandemic celebrates top A-level grades

Brighton College Ukrainian pupils

Ukrainian refugee ‘grateful’ for support as he prepares to study at UCL

Ukrainian student who became British Army translator aces exams

Ukrainian student who became British Army translator aces exams

Elena (left) and Rosa Launder both achieved A* A-level results at Millfield School (Millfield School/PA)

Twins go separate ways after identical success in A-levels

A-level results

In Pictures: Tears, hugs and smiles on A-level results day

Students with their A-level results at Ark Putney Academy, south-west London

A-level grades down on last year but remain higher than pre-pandemic

An online energy bill on a smartphone screen

Forty-five million Britons to be plunged into fuel poverty in winter – study

A woman using a smartphone

EE blocking ‘one million scam calls a day’

Margaret Ferrier

MP Margaret Ferrier admits exposing public to Covid-19 risk on train trip

Spook’s fantasy series author Joseph Delaney dies aged 77

Jeremy Corbyn, second left, and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, second right, on the picket line outside London Euston train station

Jeremy Corbyn blames running injury for black eye as he appears at picket line

Taliban fighters and local residents gather around a mosque that has been bombed in Kabul, Afghanistan

Prominent cleric among 21 killed in Kabul mosque bombing

New Zealand police investigators work at a scene in Auckland after bodies were discovered in suitcases

New Zealand family find children’s bodies in abandoned suitcases

An AO World delivery van

AO World slides to loss over higher labour costs

Composite of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss

Tory candidates warned over tax cut pledges amid worsening economic outlook

Coronavirus – Sun June 19, 2022

Study suggests having a Covid-19 jab while pregnant ‘not linked to stillbirth’

‘Months of anxiety’ – Ex-councillor reveals toll of prostate cancer tests

People with umbrellas walking in the rain on Millennium Bridge

Lingering showers and thunderstorms could hit parts of the UK

A platform is closed off at Kings Cross Station

Fresh transport strikes to cause more travel chaos

Men walk in the rain with umbrellas

Rain continues in New Zealand after storm forces hundreds to evacuate

Museum bee specimens

Bees increasingly stressed by climate change over the past 100 years – study

A collection of British newspapers

What the papers say – August 18

Sir Salman Rushdie receives the James Joyce Award from the UCD Literary and Historical Society in Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin

Sir Salman Rushdie’s attacker ‘surprised’ to learn of the author’s survival

Undated handout photo issued by Greater Manchester Police of a man suspected of abducting a seven-year-old girl on Wednesday afternoon in Droylsden, Manchester

Suspect arrested after alleged abduction and sexual assault of young girl

Anne Heche wears a wide-brimmed hat

Coroner: Anne Heche died due to smoke inhalation and burns

A student doing an exam (David Davies/PA)

Thousands to receive AS and A-level results across Northern Ireland

Thomas O’Halloran

Arrest over fatal stabbing of 87-year-old on mobility scooter

Italy Museum Climate Protest

Climate protesters target the Vatican’s Laocoon statue

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks after a meeting with the Serbian president and Kosovo's prime minister in Brussels on Thursday

EU-mediated Serbia-Kosovo meeting ends without agreement

The Trump Organisation’s former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg leaves court

Trump Organisation finance chief pleads guilty in tax evasion case

Liz Truss agrees to interview with BBC’s Nick Robinson

Students accepted on UK degree courses down on 2021 but second highest on record