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Liam Davies successfully defended the EBU European featherweight belt he won in March, pictured, with Saturday's strong display over Nathaniel Collins.

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Emiliano Martinez

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Richard Harris, winner of the Farmer's class and Richard Jones, winner of the best dog in local parishes. Dave Latham

Gladestry Sheepdog Trials attracts international competitors

A building on fire

Japan executes man convicted over fire that killed five at pachinko parlour

Torrential rain floods a road, causing a car to stall, in Ichikawa, Chiba prefecture, Japan,

Heavy rain causes deadly flooding near Tokyo and strands travellers

Someone walks in the rain

Airport closes in Okinawa as Typhoon Dolphin hits parts of southern Japan

Calandagan (right) went down fighting at Ascot

Calandagan taken out of York as all roads lead to Japan

Shiho Kuwaki lifts the trophy

Japan’s Shiho Kuwaki wins first major title after dramatic Women’s Open play-off

A firefighter searches a damaged shopping centre following an explosion triggered by an earthquake in Kashima, southern Japan

Quake survivors in Japan sleep in cars in sweltering heat as death toll rises

In this aerial image taken with a drone, responders work outside AEON Mall Kumamoto

Time running out for survivors after quake in south-west Japan

Vehicles are crushed under collapsed buildings in Yatsushiro

Death toll from Japan earthquake climbs to 23 as rescuers face race against time

A rescue worker walks in front of Aeon Mall, which was damaged by an explosion following an earthquake

Death toll rises to 18 as rescuers search rubble for quake survivors in Japan

This aerial image shows a chimney collapsed at the Nippon Paper Industries' Yatsushiro factory

Earthquake leaves 13 dead in Japan as effort to rescue survivors continues

Japan Earthquake

People missing at shopping mall after magnitude 7.1 quake shakes southern Japan

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Huge waves crash on the coastline ahead of Typhoon Bavi in Wenling in eastern China’s Zhejiang province

Typhoon Bavi makes landfall in east China with more than one million evacuated

People struggle with an umbrella

China evacuates more than one million people as region braces for Typhoon Bavi
With maximum sustained winds of 89 mph near its centre, Bavi is passing north of Taiwan on Saturday.
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Masquerade Ball striding out on the training track at Sha Tin

Masquerade Ball on course to try to make history for Japan at Ascot

Doctor measuring body fat

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England head coach Thomas Tuchel ahead of a press conference (Bradley Collyer/PA)

Thomas Tuchel says seeing big names exit World Cup can help calm England

Brazil’s Gabriel Martinelli celebrates his winning goal against Japan

Late Gabriel Martinelli goal edges Brazil past Japan and into last 16

Rayan in action

Teenage star Rayan ‘living the dream’ at World Cup as Brazil target last-16 spot

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A coastline is hit by high waves as a typhoon approaches Futtsu city

Floods and landslides as two tropical storms pound Japan

Sweden’s Anthony Elanga, left, and Japan’s Ao Tanaka battle for the ball

Japan and Sweden share points to book places in last 32 of World Cup

Ayase Ueda (left) celebrates after scoring Japan's fourth goal against Tunisia

Ayase Ueda scores twice as Japan end Tunisia’s World Cup hopes

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G7 summit

Starmer and G7 urge robust agreement to follow Trump’s Iran ‘breakthrough’ deal
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Koki Ogawa, right, and Daichi Kamada celebrate Japan's leveller

Japan leave it late to deny Netherlands victory in Dallas

Japanese prime minister visit to UK

UK and Japan building ‘new era of co-operation’, says Starmer

George Russell

George Russell vows to bounce back from latest setback in drivers’ championship

Matthew Hudson-Smith from Great Britain reacts after finishing fourth in heat 2 of the Men’s 400 Metres on day two of the 2025 World Athletics Championships

Matthew Hudson-Smith opens up about personal battles since taking Olympic silver

Masquerade Ball winning at Tokyo

Masquerade Ball to fly the flag for Japan in King George

Surgeons look at a screen displaying an AI overlay of patient anatomy, including nerves and connective tissue during bowel resection surgery

New AI tool which colour-codes the body during live surgery used in UK-first

A bear walking behind a fence

Bear injures four people in residential area of Japan

Kim Kardashian laughing on the Graham Norton Show

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Factory workers using machinery, wearing masks and ear defenders

UK manufacturing growth strikes four-year high despite rising inflation

A crested Ibis marked with painted wings flies as it was released into wild during an event in Hakui, Japan,

Eight crested ibises released in Japan decades after extinction

A rescuer entering a cave in Laos

Heavy rains threaten to delay search for last two missing in Laos cave

A HS2 worker

HS2 trains to run slower than planned to save money

George Russell in action

George Russell not worried about trailing early in F1 title battle

A scottie dog

Scotland fans’ dogs left out of Adidas World Cup canine jersey line

Jane picking amanatsu (summer orange) in Japan, which is good for marmalade.

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Mid Wales' Evans gunning for rally history against team-mates

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