Thousands of beer lovers have descended on Munich for the start of the world’s largest folk festival. Mayor Dieter Reiter ...

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

The death toll from an Israeli air strike on a Beirut suburb has risen to 31, including seven women and three children, ...

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 Labour mayor has said he thinks there will be “a spoonful of sugar along with the medicine” in the Budget next month. Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, told the PA news agency he ...

Traffic is set to be diverted on to the Old Military Road during construction of the Rest and Be Thankful debris shelter – with ...

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

Sir Mick Jagger has said he is “so sad” at the death of Cleo Sylvestre, “the first female vocalist to sing with the Stones”. Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, who had been a feature of film, ...

AS a keen student of American history, I have spent many hours at the sites where US political figures were assassinated and where they are buried. I don’t find it macabre - you may disagree - but it ...

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’.