Japan’s parliament has formally elected Shigeru Ishiba, head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, as the country’s new ...

Victoria Lupton has been in Lebanon with her husband and two-year-old daughter since September 17 and has a flight out booked for Wednesday.

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as US president, Jimmy Carter has reached the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, turned 100 on Tuesday October 1, ...

Outspoken Labour councillors in North Ayrshire have gone against Prime Minister Keir Starmer by backing a Tory motion aimed at the UK ...

A lorry has fallen more than 60 feet from a bridge on the M6 in Cheshire. The vehicle plummeted from the Thelwall Viaduct between junctions 20 and 21, landing on the embankment below, Cheshire ...

The former Home Office minister insisted he was unable to go into ‘particular cases’ when pressed to back up his claim.

The strike action is affecting 36 ports and is the first by the International Longshoremen’s Association since 1977.

The expansion of medical associate roles is causing ‘an increasing amount of disquiet’, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges said.

The ‘cat-sized, tree-climbing members of the weasel family’ have been reintroduced after going extinct in the region more ...

Campaigners tracked 40 bundles of soft plastic packaging waste through Sainsbury’s and Tesco’s take-back schemes across ...

Lobby group Irvine Without Incinerators are stepping up their opposition to a waste incinerator plant being built at the town’s Oldhall ...

The 50 pence piece has become the most valued and collected coin in the UK as the Royal Mint revealed their 10 rarest coins ...