A vote is mandatory following an election, and Mr Ishiba is expected to be re-elected in a runoff against the opposition ...

Russian drones hammered the southern city of Mykolaiv, killing five people and injuring a 45-year-old woman, local authorities said. Around two dozen people sought psychological help following the ...

Train operator Avanti West Coast is “making progress” in improving its performance but there is “still more to do”, managing director Andy Mellors said. He told the PA news agency the company must ...

The price of Bitcoin has surged past the 81,000 US dollar (£63,000) mark for the first time as the cryptocurrency continues to rally higher after Donald Trump’s victory in the US election last week.

Detectives investigating the death of a man 10 years after a assault that left him paraplegic have arrested a 61-year-old on suspicion of murder. Stuart Coldicott, then 36, suffered a serious head ...

The adult male was found on November 1 on a popular tourist beach in the town of Denmark in temperate south-west Australia — about 2,200 miles north of the icy waters off the Antarctic coast, ...

Former soldier Daniel Khalife has pleaded guilty partway through his trial to escaping from prison. The 23-year-old escaped from HMP Wandsworth in south-west London in September 2023 by clinging to ...

Mr Johnson died after he was hit in the neck by a skate as he played for Nottingham Panthers at Sheffield’s Utilita Arena.

Donald Trump is expected to support Ukraine for “as long as it takes to prevail” over Russia, the Defence Secretary has said. John Healey said he believes the incoming administration will be ...

Butterflies have flocked to Scotland due to climate change with 10 new species recorded in the past 40 years, statistics show. The latest Scottish Biodiversity Indicator, published by NatureScot on ...

An audit found a raft of security failings at a scandal-hit jail after Daniel Khalife escaped, according to a report. HMP Wandsworth’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said a security audit ...