Clashes erupted last week in several cities across Syria between Assad supporters and the new government, which is led by Islamist rebels.

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war in the latest such agreement that saw the release of hundreds of captives and was brokered with the help of the United Arab Emirates, officials said.

Police have warned of a rising problem of trailers being abandoned. Officers from Thames Valley Police said that they are often left full of rubbish in laybys. They have urged residents to report any ...

Mr Johnson’s continued leadership seemed in jeopardy after a fight over a federal funding plan put the government at risk of a ...

Jewellery worth more than £10 million as well as designer handbags worth £150,000 have been stolen from a house in Primrose Hill in London. A white man aged in his late 20s to 30s broke into a house ...

The ferry company Stena Line, which owns the port in Anglesey, North Wales, confirmed it would reopen the Terminal 5 berth.

The trio were part of a gang that illegally moved thousands of migrants through Europe and subjected many to ‘extreme cruelty’.

Sipping on a brew could release billions of microplastics into your body, research from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona suggests.

Almost every part of the country is covered by at least one of the multiple weather warnings that have been issued by the Met Office this week.

Investigators in Finland probing damage to a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables said they found an anchor drag mark on the seabed, apparently from a Russia-linked vessel that has already ...

Declassified files show intensive efforts ongoing behind the scenes to find agreement over north-south bodies in 1998.

Britain’s tourism agency worked on the basis that “the island of Ireland did not exist”, a senior Stormont civil servant said in 2003.