The death toll from an Israeli air strike on a Beirut suburb has risen to 31, including seven women and three children, ...

Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane ...

A lost cat has been reunited with his owners after an incredible 900-mile journey across the US. Rayne Beau — pronounced “rainbow” — made it home to California two months after getting lost in ...

AS a keen student of American history, I have spent many hours at the sites where US political figures were assassinated and where they are buried. I don’t find it macabre - you may disagree - but it ...

Sir Mick Jagger has said he is “so sad” at the death of Cleo Sylvestre, “the first female vocalist to sing with the Stones”. Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, who had been a feature of film, ...

So far, there have been no reports of injuries from the heavy rain but many homes were flooded and some residents in two districts in Wajima have been stranded following landslides. A number of roads ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said that ministers ‘don’t want people to believe that we are living very different lives from them’.

A special week of events is coming to Helensburgh and Lomond to help tackle loneliness and isolation in older people.

A tornado has been been described as “terrifying” as it swept through Aldershot causing damage to properties and felling trees. No-one was hurt in the weather event in the Hampshire town which ...

Mystery still surrounds the identity of a woman six months after her body was found in the River Mersey. Police appear to be no closer to identifying the slightly built woman, wearing a lime-green ...

Relatives of Alistair Wilson branded police “incompetent” and say they have lost trust in their ability to secure justice. The 30-year-old father of two was shot in Nairn in the Highlands in November ...

The plant on an island in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania was the site of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power ...