A court in Vietnam has upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan but said it could be commuted to life ...

South Africa assumed the rotational leadership of the group of the world’s leading economies from Brazil and will hand it ...

Marshall Scurfield, 22, used Snapchat to arrange for the delivery of the tablets to his address in South Tyneside.

Krishna Das Prabhu, who was arrested in Dhaka last week, faces charges of sedition after he led huge rallies in the ...

The capture of the towns is the latest in the push by insurgents led by the jihadi Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, as well as ...

The Queen has been urged to take more time to recover after a bout of pneumonia. At the start of November it was announced that Camilla had been diagnosed with a chest infection and was under doctors’ ...

Palestinian officials have said Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of politically ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 25-year-old mother who was rammed off an e-bike in a hit-and-run crash. Alana Armstrong, a mother-of-one from Tibshelf, was killed in a crash in ...

Supermarkets found to have been selling products linked to slave labour are “complicit” in prioritising profits over human rights, a Labour MP has said. This comes after the BBC found that tomato ...

A dispute over the so-called Irish Sea border led to the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2022, when the DUP withdrew then first minister Paul Givan from the coalition executive. The ...

The Budget has seen support for Labour slip in the countryside as a quarter of the party’s rural backers say they are now unhappy with their vote.

The future of the Elgin Marbles is in the hands of the British Museum, Downing Street has said, amid reports a deal that could see the sculptures returned to Greece is progressing. No mention was made ...