Japan’s parliament has formally elected Shigeru Ishiba, head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, as the country’s new ...

Victoria Lupton has been in Lebanon with her husband and two-year-old daughter since September 17 and has a flight out booked for Wednesday.

A lorry has fallen more than 60 feet from a bridge on the M6 in Cheshire. The vehicle plummeted from the Thelwall Viaduct between junctions 20 and 21, landing on the embankment below, Cheshire ...

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as US president, Jimmy Carter has reached the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, turned 100 on Tuesday October 1, ...

The former Home Office minister insisted he was unable to go into ‘particular cases’ when pressed to back up his claim.

Two teenage pupils and a teacher have been taken to hospital after an “acid attack” at a school in west London.

"Tomorrow 1 Oct the energy Price Cap, which dictates the rate 8 in 10 Eng, Wales, Scot homes pay, rises by 10% - meaning bills do to. Yet wholesale rates, those energy firms buy at, have dropped in ...

The Georgia Democrat and 39th president was born on October 1 1924 in Plains, where he has lived more than 80 of his 100 years.

An “extra-special” rare 50p coin inspired a mini-bidding war on eBay before selling for £4,000 last week, as Brits are being encouraged to check their change. You might have a small fortune lying ...

The strike action is affecting 36 ports and is the first by the International Longshoremen’s Association since 1977.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spoken in public for the first time since being released from prison after he struck a deal with the United States. He travelled from Australia to Strasbourg to ...

The ‘cat-sized, tree-climbing members of the weasel family’ have been reintroduced after going extinct in the region more ...