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

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 ...

Ed Miliband has said Kemi Badenoch needs to discover the “delights” of a bacon sarnie after the Tory leader dismissed sandwiches as not “real food”. The Energy Secretary was famously photographed ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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