“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 ...

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 ...

A major power outage has struck south-eastern France, disrupting traffic and briefly halting events at the Cannes Film Festival as the prestigious event prepared to hand out its top prize, the Palme d ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A police officer is fighting for his life in hospital after being seriously injured in a collision while on duty in Buckinghamshire. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder ...

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 ...

The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, who once served as health secretary, also called for criminal investigations into the scandal.