Taiwan celebrated its National Day holiday against the background of threats from China, which claims the self-governing ...

The Tampa Bay area has not taken a direct hit from a major hurricane in more than a century, but the storm was still bringing ...

The UK arm of the Swedish homeware giant said retail sales dropped by 6.8 to £2.3 billion for the year to August.

Jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson has refused to attend to give evidence at inquests into the deaths of 62 of his patients, claiming he has “inadequate facilities” to prepare for the hearings.

Hurricane Milton has made landfall as a Category 3 storm, with the Met Office warning it will be “dangerous and destructive” ...

An estimated 7.64 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of August, relating to 6.42 million patients.

A woman whose former partner tried to kill her and her mother by driving a car into the funeral home where she worked said justice has been done as the “forceful monster” was jailed for 11 years.

More than 1,400 people have been killed in Lebanon – mostly in airstrikes – and over a million displaced since the fighting intensified.

Ministers are assessing how to help more low-income workers buy a bike after acknowledging the Cycle to Work scheme has “problems”. Transport minister Simon Lightwood said he will be working closely ...

A total of 24 suspects have now been identified by police investigating the deaths of hundreds of patients at scandal-hit Gosport War Memorial Hospital as case files have started to be sent to the ...

HMP Manchester, previously known as Strangeways, was found by HM Inspectorate of Prisons to be the most violent of all adult men’s prisons in England and Wales, with the highest rate of serious ...