Heavy rain has triggered landslides and floods in a northern region of Japan, leaving one person dead and several missing. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the highest level of alert for heavy ...

Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane ...

Some 700 paratroopers took part in the jump, including the Red Devils, the British Army’s freefall parachute display team. The event commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, part of ...

A lost cat has been reunited with his owners after an incredible 900-mile journey across the US. Rayne Beau — pronounced ...

Meliesha Jones was dealing with a customer complaint with a colleague when she pressed reply instead of forward on an email.

Thousands of beer lovers have descended on Munich for the start of the world’s largest folk festival. Mayor Dieter Reiter officially started the 189th Oktoberfest at noon on Saturday when he inserted ...

The death toll from an Israeli air strike on a Beirut suburb has risen to 31, including seven women and three children, Lebanon’s health minister said. Firass Abiad told reporters that 68 people were ...

So far, there have been no reports of injuries from the heavy rain but many homes were flooded and some residents in two districts in Wajima have been stranded following landslides. A number of roads ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said that ministers ‘don’t want people to believe that we are living very different lives from them’.

A tornado has been been described as “terrifying” as it swept through Aldershot causing damage to properties and felling trees. No-one was hurt in the weather event in the Hampshire town which ...

The family of a banker who was shot on his doorstep say they have lost confidence in Police Scotland as his murder remains unsolved almost 20 years on. Relatives of Alistair Wilson branded police ...

Mystery still surrounds the identity of a woman six months after her body was found in the River Mersey. Police appear to be no closer to identifying the slightly built woman, wearing a lime-green ...