The 21 leaders from economies bordering the Pacific, including US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, descended on Peru this week at a time when America’s incoming president, Donald ...

US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming, second administration.

Lord Blunkett is calling for action on “death trap” tube platforms after he was injured falling into the gap at Westminster station. The Labour peer, who is blind, called on Transport for London to do ...

Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern city of Yixing on Saturday night, local police said. The attack occurred at the Wuxi ...

New York City politicians are calling on Whoopi Goldberg to apologise for suggesting on air that a local bakery had declined to make The View co-host a batch of desserts for her birthday because of ...

Around 1,000 protesters gathered in central London on Saturday to demand an end to fossil fuels and ‘UK complicity in the Gaza genocide’.

McDonald’s is investing 100 million dollars (£79 million) to bring customers back to stores after an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to onions on the fast-food giant’s Quarter Pounder ...

A woman’s body has been found in the boot of a car in east London, Northamptonshire Police have said. Detectives said a murder inquiry has been launched into the “suspicious” discovery in Ilford.

The SNP’s ruling body has proposed cutting staff at its headquarters from 26 to 16. The national executive committee (NEC) met on Saturday to agree to consult on the proposal to “streamline” staffing, ...

A US animal shelter is dealing with a great big problem after a man arrived to hand over what he initially said was 150 mice. However, the donor to the shelter in the state of New Hampshire later ...

Anne Puckridge, who lives in Canada, is among nearly half a million UK state pensioners whose pensions have been frozen.

Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazprom has stopped supplies to Austria, officials said. The Vienna-based utility company OMV confirmed the news after it said it would stop payments for the ...