A major power outage has struck south-eastern France, disrupting traffic and briefly halting events at the Cannes Film ...

More than a dozen people who were injured in a stabbing attack at the central train station in the German city of Hamburg are ...

“Hardest Geezer” Russ Cook, who ran the length of Africa last year, has completed his latest challenge by running the full length of New Zealand. The 28-year-old from West Sussex ran 2,434km (1,512 ...

Parts of the UK have seen rainfall for the first time in more than 30 days after an unusually dry spring. Friday night brought downpours across most of the country – with more rain expected over the ...

The US state of New Hampshire has agreed to pay 2.25 million dollars (£1.66 million) to the mother of Harmony Montgomery, a five-year-old girl whose father was convicted of murdering her.

The First Minister was speaking after the US President claimed incentivising drilling rather than ‘unsightly windmills’ would reduce ...

The council involved in the long-running strike by bin workers has been granted an interim injunction it says will ensure that picketing and protests at its three depots is in accordance with legal ...

In talks held in Istanbul earlier this month that marked the first time the two sides met face-to-face for peace talks since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to swap 1,000 ...

Three children and a woman have died after a house fire in north-west London, with a man arrested on suspicion of murder. Officers were called to assist the London Fire Brigade (LFB) at the scene of ...

A convicted drug dealer’s deportation case is to be reheard after the Home Office wrongly accepted he had been a lawful UK resident for most of his life. Olajiire Obafemi Shoyombo, a Nigerian national ...

The Ukrainian capital has been struck by a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack that left at least 15 people injured, officials said. Explosions and machine gun fire were heard throughout Kyiv ...

The pub quiz is believed to have originated from a company called Burns and Porter, which would share their quizzes in the 1970s in order to encourage more regular visitors. The regular pub quizzes ...