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

“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 ...

Conservative MPs privately support calls by Sir Keir Starmer and the UK’s allies for Israel to cease its war in Gaza, one Tory has claimed. Mark Pritchard, Conservative MP for the Wrekin, also said he ...

Poundland has scrapped exclusive discounts for members of its loyalty scheme. Customers who use the 'Poundland Perk' app will now collect ‘Perk points’ to be able to be spent in store. These points ...

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.

Coronation Street star Mikey North reveals the fellow co-star he often gets mistaken for in the soap's Off Script podcast.

More than a dozen people who were injured in a stabbing attack at the central train station in the German city of Hamburg are in a stable condition, police said. A 39-year-old woman, a German 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 First Minister was speaking after the US President claimed incentivising drilling rather than ‘unsightly windmills’ would reduce ...

Animals in zoos will get more enclosure space as “long overdue” welfare reforms come into place, the Department for Environment Food & ...

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 ...