Police searching for a British tourist missing in Australia have found a body in a creek near where he was last seen.

Aslan King, 25, went missing in the early hours of Saturday while on a camping trip in the state of Victoria.

His friends believe he may have had a seizure.

Mr King, an illustrator from Brighton, only moved to Australia a fortnight

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Two prison officers who were tasked with guarding the disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on the night he died in his cell are to face trial on 20 April.

Tova Noel and Michael Thomas have pleaded not guilty to lying on jail records to make it seem they had made required checks on the financier before his body was found on 10 August.

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Russia should be banned from the Olympics and all world championships for the next four years because of a continued failure to cooperate fully with a doping investigation.

That is the recommendation of the independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

If confirmed, it would mean Russia being excluded from

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Footballer Mario Balotelli has been the subject of a racist remark by the president of his own club.

The 29-year-old striker has struggled since returning to the Italian league with Brescia, his hometown club, and is reported to have had explosive rows with coach Fabio Grosso.

Asked about Balotelli's troubles on Monday, Brescia president Massimo

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At least seven people have died after heavy rain battered France, Italy and Greece, with many travellers trapped in their cars.

In France, four people died in the Var region, situated between Marseille and Cannes.

A couple in their 70s were killed when their car sank into water, a person died when a French rescue boat sank in the Mediterranean and

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The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record high in 2018 and will lead to more extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said.

The UN agency's Greenhouse Gas Bulletin is one of a series of studies to be published ahead of a UN climate change summit being held in Madrid next week, and is expected to

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