The number of Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine has topped one million, military officials in Kyiv said on Thursday ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have started a third day searching for missing people after floods devastated parts of the rural ...

Israel has deported six more activists who were detained when it seized an aid boat bound for the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, according to the rights group representing them.

Researchers from East China Normal University in Shanghai and Sweden’s Lund University described the shortage as a ‘looming crisis”.

Guardians of the Yorkshire Dales National Park have been once again accused of failing to control visitors to the protected area.

One British passenger has survived a crash involving a Gatwick Airport-bound plane which crashed in a fireball shortly after take-off in India, it has been reported. The Air India flight, which was ...

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband visited the Acorn site in Aberdeenshire as it was confirmed it would get £200 million of development funding.

A new playground has been unveiled at RSPB Saltholme nature reserve on Teesside - installed by Touchwood Play and funded by Teesside ...

Hospitals could take over GP surgeries and family doctors could run hospitals under radical plans to reform the NHS in England. Wes Streeting said the forthcoming 10 year health plan would also see ...

All 259 passengers and crew and 11 people on the ground were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded above the Scottish town of Lockerbie 40 minutes into its flight from London Heathrow to New York. It ...

A determination on the application, which has sparked security concerns, will be made on or before September 9.

Crime writer Sir Ian Rankin has said he hopes his famous detective John Rebus will return in the future, though he will not be in his next book. Rebus featured in Midnight and Blue which was published ...