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ing the situation from neighbouring Lebanon said security forces appeared to have used less force than on previous occasions and seemed to be employing a new strategy.

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A 62-year-old British woman has been beheaded in an apparently

random

attack in a supermarket on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife. Peter Biles reports.

The victim hasn't yet been named, but according to the authorities in Tenerife, she was a 62-year-old Briton. She was in a supermarket at the time of the attack. Local reports say the suspect, who's believed to be a Bulgarian man, seized a knife from inside the store and beheaded the woman. He was chased and detained by security guards as he tried to escape. The Foreign Office in London says it's aware of the reports from Tenerife and is urgently investigating what happened.

The US State Department has apologised to thousands of would-be immigrants who thought they had been successful in the annual

lottery

permitting them to apply to live legally in the United States. Officials said the results had to be

invalidate

d because a computer error meant the selection wasn't random. All 22,000 names will have to take their chance again with about 15 million other hopeful applicants.

A man dressed as a snail has completed the London Marathon 26 days after the race began. Lloyd Scott, a former professional footballer,

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