The Irish government is to bring a legal case against the UK under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The inter-state case is over the...
A British businessman who was kidnapped from his home in Ecuador has been rescued by police. Colin Armstrong, who is also the UK’s former Honorary Consul...
More than 300 firefighters have been battling a wildfire on a mountain near Cape Town for a second day. The fire, on the mountain slopes near...
Turkish football team Istanbulspor left the pitch in an apparent protest at a decision not to award them a penalty – just eight days after referee...
CCTV footage has shown the moment a dog owner threw her Maltese Shih Tzu off the top of a multi-storey car park in Australia. The dog,...
A UN Security Council vote on a resolution to increase much-needed aid deliveries to Gaza has been delayed as talks continue to avoid a third US...
Africa’s first female billionaire has lost her High Court fight against an application to freeze up to £580m of her assets. Businesswoman Isabel dos Santos, whose...
A 13-year-old boy accused of planning an attack on a synagogue has been told by a US court he must write a report on a book...
Iceland is witnessing spectacular scenes of orange and gold as a volcano erupts in the southwest of the country. Semi-molten rock has been spewing into air...
A woman has been found guilty of involvement in the murders of three people, including a British student, by a man dubbed the ‘Beast of the...
At least 131 people have been killed after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous region of northwestern China, the country’s state media has said. China’s...
The eruption in Iceland may have weakened but it’s far from over. Scientists are using GPS signals from space to precisely measure the height of the...
A woman has been found guilty of involvement in the murders of three people, including a British student, by a man dubbed the ‘Beast of the...
At least 100 elephants have died in Zimbabwe’s largest national park amid a drought. Experts from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) say the elephants...
A hostage video released by Hamas has been described by families of the captives as “psychological terrorism”. There’s no information on when it was filmed, but...
A critical holdout and humanitarian hub in central Sudan’s al Jazira state has fallen to the militia terrorising civilians in their fight for territorial control of...
Iceland is witnessing spectacular scenes of orange and gold as a volcano erupts in the southwest of the country. Semi-molten rock has been spewing into air...
At least 126 people have been killed after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous region of northwestern China, the country’s state media has said. It...
A critical holdout and humanitarian hub in central Sudan’s al Jazira state has fallen to the militia terrorising civilians in their fight for territorial control of...
A man has been shot dead near the England cricket team’s Trinidad hotel. England and the West Indies are midway through a T20 series, and the...