Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are preparing for potentially devastating ...

Azerbaijan observed a nationwide day of mourning on Thursday for the victims of a plane crash in which 38 people were killed ...

A digital counter on the Reform website showed the membership ticking over the 131,680 of the Conservative Party before lunchtime on Boxing Day ...

Pope Francis has inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison, taking a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century celebration which is ...

Temperatures are expected to reach up to 14C with widely cloudy conditions and patchy rain in some areas, the Met Office said.

Russia’s top security agency says it has arrested several suspects accused of involvement in an alleged Ukrainian plot to assassinate senior military officers. The announcement comes after the killing ...

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta believes Bukayo Saka’s absence will transform him into a better manager. The Gunners will begin a period of matches – which is likely to extend into double figures – without ...

Climate change has led to extremes including a summer heatwave as well as snowfall and several storms this year.

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which ...

Boaters passing by Lymington were unaware that the world’s fastest animal was watching on from a fence post behind them.

Campaign for Better Transport is calling for a national standard to be implemented across the UK’s 400,000 bus stops.

The rail industry produces a cancellations score – counting full cancellations as one and part-cancellations as half – which ...