The chairwoman of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Emily Thornberry, criticised ‘serious shortcomings’ in information sharing.

Pope Leo XIV has closed out 2025 with a prayer that the city of Rome might be a welcoming place for foreigners and fragile people, young and old.

Drummers pounded in the new year and a stampede of computer-generated horses was shown over a section of the Great Wall as China joined the rest of the world in marking the start of 2026. Temple bells ...

Bosses at Edinburgh Zoo have postponed the Wee Waddle, an event where penguins parade along a walkway next to their enclosure, amid fears bird flu is on the rise in the UK. The event generally takes ...

Hong Kong has marked the start of 2026 without fireworks over Victoria Harbour after a massive fire in November killed at least 161 people.

Trade unions and MPs are among those to have raised concerns about operational problems at Jhoots and allegations of unpaid staff wages.

A CAR came off the road and ended up in a ditch in a village near Cirencester at the weekend. Police were called just after 6pm with a report of a single-vehicle crash in Siddington’s Ashton Road on ...

A WOMAN has suffered serious injuries after being hit by a van in Cirencester. The woman, who is in her 60s, was struck by the vehicle in Brewery Court in the town at around 12.30pm on Monday, ...

The Queen recalled in a radio broadcast being ‘so angry and furious’ when she was attacked on a train as a teenager.

The European Court of Human Rights has demanded answers in relation to state responsibilities for victims of trafficking.

The five-minute display in Auckland involved 3,500 fireworks launched from various floors of the 787ft Sky Tower.