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An Edinburgh solicitor has been named as the winner of the top prize at the Bloody Scotland crime writing festival – three years after scooping the award for debut authors. Tariq Ashkanani picked up the McIlvanney Prize with his novel, The Midnight King. The award was presented on the opening …

Nepal’s major political parties have demanded the country’s President Ram Chandra Poudel reinstates the parliament he dissolved following deadly anti-corruption protests. In a statement, eight parties – including the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and Maoist Centre – said the president acted unconstitutionally. Poudel dissolved the House of Representatives on Friday upon …

Great Britain were unable to extend their run of global relay medals as the mixed 4x400m team fell short of a podium place on the opening night of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Team GB made the podium in every relay event at the Paris 2024 Olympics, supplying five …

A man has admitted setting a fire that caused significant damage to a building containing the constituency office of Labour MP Sharon Hodgson. The blaze started at Vermont House, in Washington, where the Washington and Gateshead South MP is one of a number of tenants, just after midnight on Thursday. …

Sheffield United head coach Ruben Selles says he has the support of the club’s board despite overseeing their worst start to a season for 30 years. The Blades have lost all six games under the former Hull City boss and sit bottom of the Championship. Their miserable start to the …

Nepal has appointed its first female prime minister, following a week of deadly protests. Former Supreme Court chief justice Sushila Karki was sworn in as interim prime minister by Nepal‘s president, Ramchandra Paudel, on Friday. The 73-year-old served as the court’s only female chief justice in 2016 and 2017 and …

Crocker may have underperformed in the first fight, but his tactics also seemed off. His high guard with elbows tucked in, while staying on Donovan’s toes, may have smothered the Limerick man initially, but as the rounds ticked by, Donovan found a flow having made his own adjustments. Perhaps starting …

A family’s emotional reunion with their missing dog in the Yorkshire Dales has been captured by drone footage. Two-year-old cockapoo Molly went missing during the August Bank Holiday weekend – just after owner John Stringer had set off for a holiday in Turkey. Shortly after he landed, John received a …

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Country singer Gavin Adcock ended his concert in an uproar, chanting “Charlie Kirk,” honoring the activist after he was assassinated on Wednesday. Adcock held a concert at Cable Dahmer Arena in Independence, Missouri and concluded his show by acknowledging Kirk. The singer …

Salt, dismissed for a golden duck in Cardiff on Wednesday, was quickly out of the blocks on home turf, hitting 18 runs off his first three balls to set the tone for England’s onslaught. With Buttler also in fine form, England reached 100-0 after six overs, only two shy of …

Pro boxers Saul “Canelo” Álvarez and Terence Crawford are heading into a weekend match that will see Álvarez defending his title as super middleweight champion.  As the crowd descends upon Las Vegas to watch the pair square up, the question lingers in the air of whether Crawford will beef up …

Newcastle Red Bulls kicked off their new era with a comfortable 26-14 win against Harlequins in the Prem Rugby Cup, in front of a record cup crowd of 9,089 at a rain-drenched Kingston Park. Newcastle, who have rebranded from the Falcons into the Red Bulls following the completion of a …

A woman who stabbed her friend and mother-of-three to death then lived with the body for 11 days has been detained indefinitely in hospital under the Mental Health Act. The body of mother-of-three Zoe Crowther, 51, was discovered by police in a ground floor flat on Walmsley Close in the …

Ulster: Jake Flannery; Werner Kok; James Hume, Jude Postlethwaite, Zac Ward; Jack Murphy, Nathan Doak; Callum Reid, John Andrew, Tom O’Toole; Iain Henderson (capt), Matthew Dalton; Cormac Izuchukwu, Sean Reffell, David McCann. Replacements: James McCormick, Sam Crean, Scott Wilson, Harry Sheridan, Nick Timoney, Conor McKee, Jonny Scott, Ben Carson, Marcus …

Sam Walters very nearly gave Wigan the perfect start, but fumbled the ball in a tackle as he looked to crash over the line inside two minutes. A handling error from Castleford, as they tried to run the ball out of their own half, meant the early let-off was only …

At least 193 people have been killed in two deadly boat accidents in two days in Democratic Republic of Congo. The most recent incident occurred on Thursday and saw a boat with nearly 500 passengers catch fire and capsize on the Congo River, in the Equateur Province’s Lukolela territory, authorities …

Hull FC have signed York Knights forward Connor Bradley on a two-year deal for next season. The 24-year-old has scored 19 tries in 60 appearances for the Championship leaders and was part of the side that won the 1895 Cup at Wembley in June. “Signing for a club like Hull …

Tom BurgessNorth East and Cumbria PA Media A fire broke out at Sharon Hodgson’s Washington office, near Sunderland, in the early hours of Thursday A man has been charged with arson after a fire at a building containing the office of Labour MP Sharon Hodgson. The blaze broke out at …

Nepal’s former Supreme Court chief justice Sushila Karki is set to become the country’s interim prime minister after deadly anti-corruption protests ousted the government. Karki, 73, will be the first woman to lead the impoverished Himalayan nation after a deal was reached with the protest leaders for her to be …