Hours after a massive rush of Hindu pilgrims set off a stampede at the event in northern India early on Wednesday, Indian ...

Heathrow’s current maximum annual number of flights is around 475,000. A third runway could enable it to reach around 740,000 ...

Alison Hitchcock, co-founder of From Me To You Letters, has created a 24-hour letter writing marathon to mark World Cancer ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a facility that produces nuclear material and called for bolstering the country ...

Several people were feared dead and many more injured in a stampede early on Wednesday as tens of thousands of Hindus rushed to take a holy bath in the river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in ...

A Chinese PhD student who was studying in the UK has denied drugging and raping 10 women. Zhenhao Zou, 27, is accused of filming himself attacking two of the alleged victims in London and the other ...

Northern Rail and other operators brought prosecutions against passengers using the single justice procedure, despite not being permitted to do so.

Rwanda-backed rebels have captured large parts of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest city, including its airport, the United Nations said. The move in Goma comes as Rwanda’s ...

Of the 426,116 calls to the ambulance service last year, 63,836 (15) were not a life-or-death emergency – an average of 175 calls a day.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to support a number of major infrastructure schemes in a speech on growth on Wednesday. Heathrow airport in west London wants to build a third runway to raise capacity ...

Prayers, lion dances and firecrackers have marked the Year of the Snake as Lunar New Year festivals got under way around the world. The pop-pop-pop of firecrackers greeted the new year outside a ...

Two Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, health officials said. A 23-year-old man was shot dead in Tulkarem and a 25-year-old man was killed in a strike on Jenin, ...