Data from October shows that international protection applications were around half in October compared to May, but only 25 lower than in June.

Officers have confirmed that the discovery of baby remains last week off Cleggs Lane, by Ashtons Field in Little Hulton, is that of a newborn girl.

Adam Peaty has a nagging feeling of unfinished Olympic business but is unsure about climbing the “Mount Everest” needed to challenge in Los Angeles. Peaty will turn 30 next month and is currently ...

N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos had a bug removed from her ear when she asked medics to get it out during a Bushtucker Trial.

The Government said it will move to a fairer system of allocating money as it published the local government financial settlement for next year.

Sir Bill Browder began his campaign against human rights abuses and corruption in 2009 after the death of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in Moscow.

Georgia’s prime minister claimed the country had been subjected to ‘blackmail and manipulation’ from some of the bloc’s politicians.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham accused Petroineos of ‘industrial vandalism’ amid plans to shut down the last oil refinery in Scotland.

Libyan suspect Abu Agila Masud, who is to go on trial in the US next year, is alleged to have helped make the bomb.

A father who threw beer cans at police officers protecting a hotel full of asylum seekers and was bitten by a police dog has been jailed for 30 months. Tommy McQuaker, 29, will miss his daughter’s ...

Thousands of people made the crossing back into Lebanon from Syria on the second day of a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, after nearly 14 months of fighting. At the Jousieh border crossing in ...