From January to June this year, the UN found that 149 Palestinians were killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in the ...

Hurricane Erin has strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane as it threatens to bring life-threatening surf and rip currents to ...

We’ve been authenticating footage posted online to gauge the scale of flooding which has killed at least 300 people in ...

An Australian court has fined airline giant Qantas a record A$90m (£43m; $59m) for illegally sacking more than 1,800 ground ...

Jamie Burrows, chairman of the NFU's crops board, said that farmers in areas that had seen rainfall were actually seeing ...

Bolivia is set to elect a non-left wing president after nearly two decades of near-continuous rule by the incumbent socialist ...

Swiss watchmaker Swatch has apologised and pulled an ad featuring a model pulling the corners of his eyes, after the image ...

Rescue workers in northern Nigeria are searching for more than 40 missing passengers after a boat accident in Sokoto state, ...

Leicestershire announce the appointment of Emma White as the club's new chief executive officer, starting from 1 September.

A new aircraft is to start serving Orkney's inter-island routes, alongside a new vessel for the internal ferry network. The ...

"In reality, none of us slept," adds Andy Perozo, describing how one of the guards would "bang on the walls or doors so we ...

The leaders of the UK, France and Germany will accompany Ukraine's president for crunch talks on ending Russia's war against ...