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A British foreign national was swimming with two friends at a Bali beach on Wednesday afternoon when a strong current dragged him away.

Begum was seen for the first time in years after storming out of an interview at the al-Roj camp in Syria which has been criticised by the Red Cross for being 'grim' and 'extremely volatile.'

The sequel sees the return of Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Ariana Grande as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.

A high school in Michigan has punished one of their own junior varsity players who senselessly injured a much smaller opponent by jumping on top of them and fracturing their spine.

Colombia's leader condemned three attacks this month, which were defended as operations against drug traffickers. He accused the former president of criminalising poverty and migration.

The Essex businessman, who found fame after appearing on Lord Sugar 's The Apprentice, has become the most controversial signing on Strictly this year.

Kim Kardashian had all eyes on her as she arrived to her Skims and Nike store launch event on Wednesday in New York City.

Fans of Taylor Swift can see behind the scenes footage and her new music video in the world premiere at cinemas in Essex.

Fans of Taylor Swift can see behind the scenes footage and her new music video in the world premiere at cinemas in Essex.

These are the pubs with a connection to some of Britain's most feared gangsters.

The criminal was involved in county lines drug dealing. The zombie knife was found hidden behind a television in his bedroom.

If the autumnal British weather has been bringing you down, worry for - for the stars promise 'beauty and harmony' over the next few weeks.

Sharon Jahn, the mother of 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, kept an active Facebook page where she followed everyone from Kamala Harris to an account representing Democratic Socialists.

By 2100, today's developed countries could be pushed further into an unprecedented type of poverty, a study from University of Cambridge scientists suggests.

Experts from the University of Nottingham claim that pet owners should consider putting their dogs on vegan diets - because they're better for the environment.

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Brooklyn Beckham was completely humiliated during the Ryder Cup celebrity match and it wasn't because his team was losing. Fans mocked him throughout the game.

Doctors report the first successful treatment for Huntington's disease using a new type of gene therapy given during 12 to 18 hours of delicate brain surgery. The BBC reports: An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients. It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of "good quality life", Prof Sarah Tabrizi told BBC News. The first symptoms of Huntington's disease tend to appear in your 30s or 40s and is normally fatal within two decades -- opening the possibility that earlier treatment could prevent symptoms from ever emerging. None of the patients who have been treated are being identified, but one was medically retired and has returned to work. Others in the trial are still walking despite being expected to need a wheelchair. Treatment is likely to be very expensive. However, this is a moment of real hope in a disease that hits people in their prime and devastates families. [...] It starts with a safe virus that has been altered to contain a specially designed sequence of DNA. This is infused deep into the brain using real-time MRI scanning to guide a microcatheter to two brain regions - the caudate nucleus and the putamen. This takes 12 to 18 hours of neurosurgery. The virus then acts like a microscopic postman -- delivering the new piece of DNA inside brain cells, where it becomes active. This turns the neurons into a factory for making the therapy to avert their own death. The cells produce a small fragment of genetic material (called microRNA) that is designed to intercept and disable the instructions (called messenger RNA) being sent from the cells' DNA for building mutant huntingtin. This results in lower levels of mutant huntingtin in the brain. [...] The data showed that three years after surgery there was an average 75% slowing of the disease based on a measure which combines cognition, motor function and the ability to manage in daily life. The data also shows the treatment is saving brain cells. Levels of neurofilaments in spinal fluid -- a clear sign of brain cells dying -- should have increased by a third if the disease continued to progress, but was actually lower than at the start of the trial.

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Southend Council is setting up more cameras to enforce moving traffic restrictions

Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir pulls no punches when giving her verdict on Duchess of Sussex Meghan's lifestyle brand rollout.