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US TV host Savannah Guthrie has pleaded for the return of her mother and said the family is "ready to talk" to her captor - but asked them to provide proof she is alive.

Saturday Night Live has announced the comedians cast for the first UK incarnation of the hit late-night US series.

Sky News has been nominated for nine Royal Television Society TV journalism awards, including for news channel of the year.

A cyber security student at De Montfort University who died after being stabbed in Leicester city centre has been named as Khaleed Oladipo.

The family of a British woman who died after a holiday in Cape Verde have urged travellers to take hygiene warnings seriously as UK health authorities examine a spike in serious illnesses.

A Russian ship's captain has been jailed for six years after his container vessel crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea last March, killing one crew member.