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The former cricketer and chair of Pakistan's Movement for Justice party blamed rival party MQM for the death in a series of angry tweets. It denies any involvement.

Four people have been injured after an explosion at a house in Nottinghamshire. An eyewitness described what he saw.

The software tycoon's $500,000 property on an island in Belize was gutted by a fire on May 16. The 67-year-old said that the blaze was another indication that someone was out to get him in the country.

The deal will make the 26-year-old New Yorker very rich, even though he was publicly opposed, even just last year, to selling the company.

Underwater photographer Rainer Schimpf spotted the whale off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It is missing its dorsal fin and a right-side pectoral fin, leaving it unable to hunt for itself.

While revelers in the rural Virginia town of Damascus took part in an annual parade, an elderly man had a 'medical episode' and drove straight through the crowd.

Behind the scenes at this year's film festival

Chloe Johnson (pictured) from Forest Hill, south London, died yesterday in the pool at the Coral Sea Waterworld hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Britain is now rife with welfare ghettos, such as the Falinge estate in Greater Manchester (pictured), where more than half of working age residents are dependent on unemployment benefits.

The 48-year-old man, who has not been named, allegedly carried out the double-murder in a suburb of Lyon, in eastern France, on Saturday afternoon before fleeing on a pair of roller-skates.

Guests at the wedding of Verity Evetts, Pippa's close friend and guest at the Royal Wedding were all offered alcopops instead as they left the spring ceremony in Wherwell, Hampshire.

Ryan Fogle, 29, a third secretary at the embassy in Moscow, was accused by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) of trying to recruit a Russian counter-terrorism expert.

The man found himself trapped on the Aiguille du Midi peak (pictured), which is usually reached by the highest cable car in the world, on the Vallee Blanche, part of the Mont Blanc range.

The mother (pictured) of two members of the gang, brothers Akhtar Dogar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 31, has claimed one of the victims was not 'pressurised' by her abusers.

Amanda Knox, who is now living in Seattle, said that her future is ‘very unsure for me financially’ because she has spent so much clearing her name.

Perched in the lush green hills in Portland, Oregon, is one of the Pacific coasts best kept and secret architectural gems.

A study in Manhattan found the number of fatalities caused by global warming will far outstrip the reductions in those perishing from the cold.

Rod Stewart scores his first UK number one album for 34 years, going straight to the top with his LP, Time.

The world's quickest and most detailed CT scanner has been installed in a Bradford hospital. The £600,000 scanner takes more accurate images of the body's organs such as the heart (pictured) than any other scanner.

Sir Alex Ferguson is denied victory in his 1,500th and final game in charge of Manchester United by a 5-5 draw at West Brom.