Syria is taking its first steps in the post-Assad era as its people come to terms with life under new rulers. The few ...

A confused passenger has been fined more than £100 for sitting in the 'wrong first class'. Theo Griffiths, 19, from Boston, Lincs, was given a penalty fare of £129.50 while travelling on a Thameslink ...

A Met Office yellow warning, covering parts of the Highlands, Argyll and Bute, Perthshire and the Stirling area, is in force and runs until midday on Tuesday. Travel disruption and flooding could hit ...

Drivers are being urged not to travel on major routes for six hours on both Friday and Saturday to avoid the worst Christmas holiday traffic. The RAC and transport analytics company Inrix said roads ...

The hit, which took 39 years to become a Christmas number one, topped the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s poll.

Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith is applying for an urgent question in the Commons on the influence of the United Front Work Department.

An Israeli airstrike hit a school and killed at least 16 people in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing surgery to stop a brain bleed. The 79-year-old president appeared at a press conference on Sunday ...

The military juntas of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced in January that they had decided to leave Ecowas.

Pope Francis urged people to “make children” as he made his first papal visit to the French island of Corsica on Sunday. Francis also called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of ...

A two-year-old boy has died and four adults have been injured in a hit-and-run crash involving a stolen Porsche, West Midlands Police said. Officers were called to Dartmouth Road, Smethwick, near ...

The Foreign Secretary said Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) remains proscribed but ‘as you would expect’ the Government has spoken to the group.