A state of emergency has been declared after a wildfire whipped up by extreme winds swept through a Los Angeles hillside ...

Pope Francis has denounced the “scourge” of child labour and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to God.

A man has been arrested in Spain after a body was found in the hunt for missing Belfast man John George. The 37-year-old, from west Belfast, also known as John Hardy, had been on holiday in Alicante ...

The former New York City mayor owes £118 million dollars to two Georgia election workers after he was found to have defamed them.

Thousands of people remain without power during a bitter cold spell across Ireland. The entire island was under weather warnings coming into Wednesday morning, with temperatures as low as minus 6C ...

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country’s interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party attempts to put together a new coalition government, the president’s ...

The mercury is set to drop sharply, with lows of minus 15C possible in Scotland and northern England overnight on Thursday.

The former defence secretary said it was ‘absolutely’ essential the Afghanistan Inquiry got definitive answers over whether murders took place.

A glass of milk a day cuts the risk of bowel cancer by almost a fifth, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers from the University of Oxford say they have found the strongest evidence ...

California firefighters are battling wildfires that tore across the Los Angeles area amid high winds, destroying homes, causing tens of thousands of people to flee and straining resources. Officials ...

Aziz Ziriat and Sam Harris have not been seen or heard from since January 1 and they did not check in for their flight home on January 6.