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India's army has taken control of a key canal that supplies water to Delhi, the capital's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said.
Protesters from the Jat community demanding job quotas in neighbouring Haryana state seized the Munak canal.
Keshav Chandra, a top official in Delhi's water board told the BBC that 10 million people are without water.
Sixteen people have been killed and hundreds wounded in three days of riots, a senior official told the BBC.
The Italian premier, Matteo Renzi, warned he may call a high-stakes confidence vote in his government to try to break a parliamentary deadlock over civil unions for same-sex couples.
"We are at a crossroads," Renzi told a national assembly of his centre-left Democratic party (PD) on Sunday. "I am ready to call a confidence vote."
David Cameron’s claim to be backing a revolution in the treatment of the mentally ill has come under attack from a senior bishop who claims welfare cuts currently being considered by parliament will hit the very people the prime minister has pledged to help.
The House of Lords struck out government plans last year to take up to £1,500 year in benefit payments from 250,000 people with psychiatric conditions – but on Tuesday ministers will seek to overturn the decision.
One-hundred and fifty council leaders and 40 MPs have urged the Government to push ahead with controversial plans to relax Sunday trading laws as new analysis claims the economy will receive a £1.4bn boost.
The cross-party group has found that plans to relax strict Sunday trading laws for big stores could also result in a 9 per cent increase in employment across the country.
In an open letter, published in The Sunday Telegraph, the group calls on Government to urgently introduce measures to allow large retailers to open their doors for longer on Sundays to help the economic recovery.
The Archbishop of York has dispelled rumours that the Church of England is considering a change in doctrine on marriage and sexuality.
Most Revd John Sentamu's speaking after the Daily Telegraph published an article earlier this week regarding a letter written by himself and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Welby, to a gay member of the Church of England's General Synod, Jayne Ozanne.
A legal bid to overturn a law banning sex with animals has been thrown out by a German court.
The case launched by a man and woman - identified only as Mrs S and Mr F - who "feel sexually attracted to animals" argued that Germany’s bestiality laws violate their right to "sexual self-determination".
Islamic State is using child soldiers at "an increasing and unprecedented rate", according to a report released yesterday. The death rate for children recruited by and fighting for ISIS has doubled since January 2015.
ISIS has used children in a number of its propaganda campaigns, but analysis of the use of child and youth "martyrs" by ISIS between January 2015 and January 2016 discovered that they are being used on a grander scale than previously recognised.
The British head of Europol has warned that as many as 5,000 ISIS-trained jihadists are wandering free in Europe.
Rob Wainwright, chief of the EU's police agency Europol, said the agency believed between 3,000 and 5,000 jihadists have been able to slip back into Europe after training with ISIS in the Middle East.
Two teachers who worked at the school at the centre of the "Trojan Horse" scandal have been banned from the classroom for life.
Inamulhaq Anwar, 34, and Akeel Ahmed, 41, had denied stepping up religious influence in education at Park View Academy in Alum Rock, Birmingham.
A professional standards panel handed the men interim teaching bans in 2015.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has paid cash incentives of over £2,000 to lap-dancing bars and similar establishments to hire young unemployed people aged 18-24 as part of its Youth Contract scheme.
Strip clubs and massage parlours that offer full-time jobs to young people for at least 26 weeks can claim up to £2,275 – so long as the young person is neither a "performer" nor "performing sexual acts".