More than 1,400 people have been killed in Lebanon – mostly in airstrikes – and over a million displaced since the fighting ...

Taiwan celebrated its National Day holiday against the background of threats from China, which claims the self-governing ...

More than two million homes and businesses were without power on Wednesday night in Florida, according to poweroutage.us, ...

The Transport Secretary vowed to make ‘efforts’ to ease the potential impact on rail passengers between London Paddington and the South West.

A MATCH funding scheme has been proposed to improve shop fronts in Earlestown town centre. As reported by the Star, £28m has been earmarked to transform Earlestown town centre , using £20m from the ...

A pilot killed when a helicopter crashed on the roof of an Australian hotel was affected by alcohol and was not qualified to ...

Ex-Scotland rugby player Scott Hastings has paid tribute to his “beautiful, loving” wife Jenny, who took her own life last month – and revealed he was “at peace” when her body was found. Jenny ...

Commons Leader Lucy Powell said the Conservatives were ‘reaching desperately for a conspiracy when there just isn’t one’.

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility ...

The UK arm of the Swedish homeware giant said retail sales dropped by 6.8 to £2.3 billion for the year to August.

Jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson has refused to attend to give evidence at inquests into the deaths of 62 of his patients, claiming he has “inadequate facilities” to prepare for the hearings.