At least 28 bodies were pulled from the Potomac River in Washington DC after an American Airlines passenger jet collided with ...

Shyam Rana, Anna Daniell and Melanie Johnson have been recognised with the Humanitarian Medal for their responses to major ...

All properties in Scotland left without electricity following Storm Eowyn six days ago have now been reconnected, power companies have said. Almost 300,000 customers were left without power after the ...

Scores of people staged a sit-down protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Thursday as bids to appeal against the sentences of more than a dozen climate activists continued at the Court of the ...

A couple who relished their relationship of “sado-masochistic violence” killed a woman in a “premeditated blood-thirsty murder” and dumped her dismembered body in a park, the Old Bailey has heard.

An American Airlines jet and a US army helicopter collided close to the runway of Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington DC.

Jurors were visibly upset as they were shown footage of a Chinese PhD student allegedly raping a woman. One member of the jury was in tears as two 10 minute clips were played at Inner London Crown ...

The Work and Pensions Secretary, who will set out sweeping reforms to sickness and disability benefits in the spring, said more people needed to be moved off welfare and into jobs. Ms Kendall blamed ...

The Government is expected to seek to bring the measures into force as soon as possible once the legislation is approved by MPs and Lords.

The first hostage, soldier Agam Berger, 20, was released after Hamas paraded her in front of a crowd in the heavily destroyed urban Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.