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May: terror attack in UK highly likely

Train stations across London have been put on high alert amid fears of a terrorist attack on transport hubs.

Home Secretary Theresa May has raised the UK terror threat level to its second highest meaning an attack on the country is “highly likely”

Key cancer waiting time targets missed

Terror attack on UK 'highly likely' as threat level raised

Ashya King: police say 'time is running out' for boy with brain tumour

Celebrity sightings

Diana and Iain will return to Great British Bake Off this series

Police: time running out for Ashya

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Politics»

May: terror attack in UK highly likely

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Home Secretary Theresa May has raised the UK terror threat level to its second highest meaning an attack on the country is “highly likely”

David Cameron: Douglas Carswell's defection 'quite bizarre' and 'very strange'

Terror attack on UK 'highly likely' as threat level raised

Nigel Farage: More Tories could defect after 'high noon' by-election

Vince Cable builds up war chest for election

Picture galleries»

Wales' ring of steel

Police in Cardiff and Newport prepare for Nato summit

In pics: 102 years of Tarzan

Film

The first Tarzan story by Edgar Rice Burroughs was published on August 27 1912

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The future of photojournalism

Photography

A photography showcase by MA students from the University of Westminster

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Welcome to...Moscow

Around the world with British village names by Peter Macdiarmid

A parting shot

Stunning images of water droplets by photographer Francois Loubser

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Mods return to Brighton

Mods gather on Brighton seafront for 40th anniversary of clashes with Rockers

Isil march Syrian soldiers to 'execution'

Google tests drone delivery service

Online gamer 'Kootra' arrested during live broadcast

'Batman' spotted on motorway in Japan

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt marry in France

Mysterious luminous waves hit Sydney beach

How to win at passive-aggressive warfare

As a plane is diverted over an argument about a reclining seat, here’s how to get what you want without confrontation

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Met Office launches new 'leaves on the line' forecast

Car tax discs end in six weeks but half the country has no idea

Huge rise in sex offences on trains, official figures show

Woman hospitalised as miniature train derails at safari park

CCTV: pushchair rolls onto tracks in Surrey

To put the railways back on track we must first rip out the waste

The Royal Family»

Prince Andrew: 'It’s not nice being shot at'

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who has backed a report by Professor Tim Briggs which has said that GPs should be specially trained to treat war veterans

Prince Andrew says he feared he may not make it back to Britain after being shot at on active service in the Falklands, as he reveals why he has remained such good friends with his ex-wife

'Carole Middleton is embarrassed by us'

Is revenge a dish best served cold for the Queen?

Antonio Carluccio: Prince Charles wrote to me after Neal Street closed

King Richard III ‘drank a bottle of wine a day’

Princess Diana's memorial 'neglected', former royal chef claims

The reincarnation of Richard III?

Defence»

China and Russia simulate military strikes together

Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping at a ceremony in Shanghai to sign a long-awaited gas deal with state-controlled Gazprom

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The simulated attack - called 'peace mission-2014' - by Russia, China and Asian neighbours on a 'separatist organisation' is underway at the Zhurihe military base in north China

Scotland's brave soldiers denied a say in the country they defend

Competition to give retired HMS Illustrious new home

Nato summit's 'Ring of Steel' by numbers

Wales' ring of steel

How national service transformed a generation of British men

Killer robots 'a small step away'

Education»

Universities need to play bigger role in society

Professor Brian Cox says that universities need to work alongside schools to raise aspirations, help close the skills gap, and make pupils aware of STEM opportunities