Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow, the ...

Mayor Kazumi Matsui warned against a growing acceptance of military build-ups and of using nuclear weapons for national ...

A business director accused of dumping 27 tonnes of waste which blocked off access to homes and businesses on a country lane has denied all the allegations against him. Darren Sheen, 40, entered not ...

A Darlington schoolgirl has issued an emotional plea to protect wildlife from a huge new housing development. Skerningham Estates Ltd plans to build thousands of new homes as part of the Skerningham ...

Aimee Betro, 45, denies being part of a failed assassination plot in which a person wearing a niqab fired a gun at a man in Birmingham.

A 21-year-old man is to deny murdering a Saudi Arabian student who was stabbed to death in Cambridge and will argue self-defence, a court heard. Mohammed Algasim, 20, died in Mill Park, a street near ...

US-based fashion accessories and jewellery business Claire’s has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a court in Delaware.

Resident doctors in England have agreed a “window for negotiations” with Wes Streeting, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said. Dr Ross Nieuwoudt and Dr Melissa Ryan, co-chairs of the union’s ...

The Irish president Michael D Higgins will welcome the Princess Royal at his official residence in Dublin on Wednesday. Anne will visit Aras an Uachtarain (official residence) in the Irish capital, in ...

Doug Chalmers said it was ‘inappropriate for the government of the day to seek to guide the work of the independent electoral commission’.

The volume of work decreased for all three sub-sectors in July – civil engineering, commercial and residential construction.