Taiwan demonstrated its sea defences against a potential Chinese attack on Thursday as tensions rise with Beijing, part of a ...

The leading candidate is Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun, no relation to the former president. He is widely seen as the ...

Shamima Begum will not be returning to the UK, David Lammy said following calls from Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism chief for the repatriation of British members of so-called Islamic State ...

Mr Lammy told the BBC that he believes Mr Trump’s comments earlier in the week about Greenland come from his concerns about US economic security.

Two lynx which were illegally released in the Scottish Highlands have been successfully captured – with experts warning the creatures could have died if they had remained in the wild.

Pension Credit is to increase from April, helping 1.4million of the poorest pensioners, but it is still one of the most underclaimed benefits ...

AN Ayr MSP has criticised Anas Sarwar's pledge to reduce child poverty spending. Siobhian Brown said that the Labour leader's New Year promise to cut social security spending would be "devastating" ...

Anthony Blinken said on Wednesday that the incoming president’s ambitions are unlikely to amount to anything more than talk.

The bodies of Yosef Al Zaydani and his son Hamzah were recovered in an operation, defence minister Israel Katz said.

The reporter for the Il Foglio daily was detained in Tehran on December 19, three days after she arrived on a journalist visa ...

The UK’s biggest supermarket chain reported UK and Ireland like-for-like sales, excluding fuel and VAT, up 3.7 over the six weeks to January 4.

A community has paid tribute to a 14-year-old boy with a “pure heart” who was stabbed to death on a bus in south-east London. Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa was fatally injured on a route 472 bus in ...