The shock offensive sent residents fleeing and added fresh uncertainty to a region reeling from multiple wars.

More bodies buried under the mud were retrieved in eastern Uganda and an injured person died in a hospital, bringing the ...

A swift, three-day trial against Alexei Gorinov, once a low-profile activist, underscored Moscow’s intolerance of any ...

Two children and a woman were crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip ...

Syria’s state media said projectiles from insurgents landed in the student accommodation at Aleppo’s university, killing four ...

On Friday evening, protesters again swarmed the parliament, with some trying to break the metal gates to the building.

The outage, caused by an "unexpected incident" with an underground cable, has hit homes in the Haydock area. Electricity North West says that 42 properties have been affected by the power cut. The ...

The BBC licence fee will increase in line with inflation each year until 2027, rising in April to £174.50, the Government has announced. It will be an increase of £5, or an extra 42p a month, after ...

The Briton’s pole hands a timely boost to McLaren as they bid to land their their first constructors’ championship since 1998.

He said that such a proposal has ‘never been considered’ by Ukraine because it has never ‘officially’ been offered.

Voting in the Irish General Election continued into Friday evening after a quick campaign that focused on the country’s most pressing issues.

One of the largest health boards in Scotland, which halted ambulance admissions in its region due to “sustained and continuing pressure”, has started accepting patients again. NHS Grampian, which is ...