Thousands of beer lovers have descended on Munich for the start of the world’s largest folk festival. Mayor Dieter Reiter ...

The death toll from an Israeli air strike on a Beirut suburb has risen to 31, including seven women and three children, ...

Heavy rain has triggered landslides and led swollen rivers to overflow in a region of Japan still recovering from a deadly ...

A lost cat has been reunited with his owners after an incredible 900-mile journey across the US. Rayne Beau — pronounced ...

A Labour mayor has said he thinks there will be “a spoonful of sugar along with the medicine” in the Budget next month.

The comments come days after pagers and other tech exploded across Lebanon, reportedly killing 37 people and injuring more ...

Eighty years after thousands of Allied airborne troops parachuted into the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in a daring military offensive their modern counterparts have made the same jump. Paratroopers from ...

Meliesha Jones was dealing with a customer complaint with a colleague when she pressed reply instead of forward on an email.

Sir Mick Jagger has said he is “so sad” at the death of Cleo Sylvestre, “the first female vocalist to sing with the Stones”. Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, who had been a feature of film, ...

A tornado has been been described as “terrifying” as it swept through Aldershot causing damage to properties and felling trees. No-one was hurt in the weather event in the Hampshire town which ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said that ministers ‘don’t want people to believe that we are living very different lives from them’.

Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from ...