A hurricane struck Mexico’s southern Pacific coast with life-threatening flood potential after increasing in strength in a matter of hours. Its rapid intensification caught authorities off guard as ...

Police in northern Switzerland said on Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a new “suicide capsule”.

Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, classist Natalie Haynes, comedians Russell Kane and Vic Reeves, The Supervet star Noel Fitzpatrick and historians Sarah Clegg and Jonathan Dimbleby will ...

Initial messaging around shielding at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been more nuanced, Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer has said.

The UN General Assembly’s annual meeting, which ends on September 30, follows the two-day Summit Of The Future.

A woman found dead at home along with her eight-year-old daughter was a “loving and devoted mother”, a neighbour has said.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry has said the death toll from Israeli airstrikes in the country since early on Monday has reached 558, including 50 children and 94 women. Health minister Firass Abiad told ...

Sir Declan Morgan said a Court of Appeal judgment had “clearly and unequivocally” endorsed the independence of the commission.

Rosamund Pike will make her National Theatre debut in a new production as Rufus Norris marks his final season as artistic director of the organisation. Norris, who announced last year he would step ...

On Thursday, a yellow warning for the North East – indicating heavy rain could cause some disruption – has been issued for the whole day.

The Home Secretary also claimed the Conservatives are becoming ‘right-wing wreckers’ as she criticised their response to recent riots.

The mothers of two young people who died after being caught in a rip tide on Bournemouth beach have paid emotional tributes to the pair at the start of an inquest into their deaths.