An American Airlines jet and a US army helicopter collided close to the runway of Ronald Reagan National Airport near ...

Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the chaotic handover of ...

Three Israelis and five Thais were handed over to the Red Cross on Thursday with 110 Palestinians expected to be exchanged in ...

Shyam Rana, Anna Daniell and Melanie Johnson have been recognised with the Humanitarian Medal for their responses to major ...

Rescuers are working to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope on the Isle of Skye. A member of the public spotted the humpback in difficulty and contacted British Divers Marine Life Rescue ...

Under the existing first-past-the-post system, voters select their preferred candidate and the candidate with the most votes wins.

A Russian drone blasted a hole in an apartment building in north-eastern Ukraine during a night-time attack, killing at least six people and injuring nine others, officials said on Thursday.

Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming “normalised” as nearly half of consumers know an owner, a study has found. Some 49% of 4,000 people surveyed either own an EV or know someone who does, according ...

Vivek Gurav is behind what is understood to be the world’s largest community of ploggers – joggers who litter pick.

Senior figures from past and current Labour governments gathered at Hull Minster to remember the former deputy prime minister.

The first hostage, soldier Agam Berger, 20, was released after Hamas paraded her in front of a crowd in the heavily destroyed urban Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Broadcaster Sally Magnusson is to step down from presenting BBC Scotland’s flagship news programme, Reporting Scotland, after 27 years. She began presenting the show in 1998, when it was broadcast ...