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The fight against Islamic extremism is a "generational struggle", Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said

Speaking during a visit to Australia, Hammond said it was "important" to recognise that "the underlying challenge of extremist Islamism is going to be with us for a long while".

"This is a generational struggle against this ideology and we are going to have to fight these battles, not just in the Middle East, but in other parts of the world as well," the Foreign Secretary said.

"There is no where that is safe from this challenge and we need to work together to be two or three steps ahead in the chess game," he added.

World leaders have condemned the murder of a Japanese journalist by Islamic State militants in Syria. Kenji Goto's killing comes less than a week after the death of another man from Japan held by the group. The country's Prime Minister has vowed not to 'give in to terrorism'.

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The family of Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown said she was a "tiger" and that they were hopeful she would pull through..

Her cousin Jerod Brown told NBC News she was going through a "hard time" as the anniversary of her mother's death approaches.

"She's been through a lot, you know what I'm saying. This is a hard time, it's her mother's anniversary of her death," Jerod Brown said.

"It's been a hard time, it's a rough time of year," he said, adding, "But she's a tiger, she's going to pull through it."

A Kiev military spokesman has said that 13 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in fighting against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours.

A further 20 soldiers were wounded in the clashes, spokesman Volodymyr Polyovy said in a televised briefing.

Novak Djokovic has taken control of the Australian Open final by racing into a 3-0 lead in the fourth set with a double break.

The world number one aleady leads Andy Murray 2-1 in sets and seems poised to collect his fifth title at Melbourne Park.

A Somerset teenager has raised over £15,000 for a cancer charity after his school punished him for shaving his head.

14 year old Stan Lock shaved off his hair to raise money for Macmillan. But staff at the Churchill Academy put him in isolation because they said his new hairstyle broke school rules. Stan's original fundraising target was just £100.

Novak Djokovic leads Andy Murray 2-1 in sets at the Australian Open final after winning the third 6-3.

Murray appeared to be in the ascendancy after breaking in the opening game of the set and holding immediately afterwards, but Djokovic moved through the gears to claim the next three games and race into a 3-2 lead.

He forced three breaks points at 4-3 on the Murray serve and the Scot showed his frustration by smashing his racket on the ground when the Serbian won the second of those.

Djokovic needed just one of his three set points to hold serve and give himself the upper hand at Melbourne Park.

The wife of Ted Robbins, Judy, says her husband is "doing well" in hospital.

She also made an appeal to the doctor in the audience who came to Ted's rescue.

In a message this morning she wrote: