Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, who oversaw Syria’s infamous Adra Prison from 2005 to 2008 under recently ousted President Bashar ...

The sentencing of a man convicted of plotting to kill a prosecutor after claiming to identify as “evil Jesus” has been delayed due to the lack of a bed at a secure unit. Martin Ready, 42, was found ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency this year added fin whales to its list of three whale species that can be legally hunted.

Russia has launched a massive aerial attack on Ukraine, involving dozens of cruise missiles and drones. The Russian military targeted the Ukrainian power grid, energy minister Herman Halushchenko ...

The watchdog said Royal Mail’s poor performance is ‘eroding public trust’ in the institution, after also fining it last year.

The UK economy unexpectedly contracted in October, marking two months in a row of negative growth for the first time since the pandemic, new figures show. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was ...

The hub in Darwen, Lancashire, enables customers of different banks to carry out transactions in a single space.

Lincolnshire’s Chief Constable Paul Gibson has followed his Metropolitan Police and Essex counterparts in warning about cuts.

A family are desperately searching for their cat who got into a van in Leeds before running off in Oldham outside Costco ...

An Oldham theatre company is delighting children this Christmas period by bringing a festive production to schools around the borough ...

A prominent human rights attorney has parted ways with the International Criminal Court to protest what he sees as an unjustified failure of its chief prosecutor to indict members of Venezuelan ...

An Oldham-based company has been given a £120,000 fine for making more than 150,000 spam calls over a two-month period.