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

A court in Serbia has convicted the parents of a teenage boy who shot dead nine pupils and a guard and wounded six more ...

A team of Scottish researchers have helped solve the mystery over a volcanic eruption that caused famines and crop failures around the world, almost 200 years ago. Scientists from the University of St ...

A rare severe flood warning of “danger to life” has been issued for part of northern Scotland on Hogmanay, as a heavy downpour of rain is expected to burst riverbanks. Aviemore and nearby areas in the ...

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.

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 ...

Firefighters have revealed the shocking extent of a Christmas Day houseboat fire at The Anchor Inn, Wyre Piddle, during which a man in his 30s died.

A coroner has issued a warning about the dangers of baby slings after a six-week-old boy died during “hands-free” breastfeeding. James Alderman, known as Jimmy, was being breastfed within a baby ...

Cola Zero Sugar Lime have been spotted by in UK stores including Farmfoods and Tesco for the first time since 2007.

The Boeing plane operated by South Korea’s budget airline Jeju Air skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport.

Daniel Bartlam was 14 when he killed his mother Jacqueline in a hammer attack before burning her body in April 2011.

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay street party and fireworks display have been cancelled due to bad weather. The events were cancelled by organisers UniqueAssembly after Met Office yellow weather warnings for most ...