At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat with 278 passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of ...

Staff Sergeant John McKelvie, 51, of the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry, was airlifted to hospital but died on February 4 ...

Police and firefighters have rescued a moose that was trapped in a swimming pool in New Hampshire. A police video shows rescuers removing a pool covering after arriving at the house in Bedford at ...

A British man has said he will be stranded in Israel for weeks because of a lack of commercial flights out of the country to the UK. Keith Ottaway, 46, originally planned to return to the UK on ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign noted Donald Trump’s role in ending Roe v Wade in a statement reacting to Mrs Trump’s comments.

Electricity is being slowly restored as the number of homes and businesses without power dipped below one million.

Ant agriculture started 66 million years ago as fungi experienced “a heyday” in the aftermath of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, a new study suggests. Colonies of ants began farming the ...

Investigators said the infant suffered more than 50 rat bites and required treatment at an Indianapolis hospital.

The Irish and British foreign ministers have expressed “deep concern” about the escalation in the Middle East and called for “a political solution”. The deputy Irish premier and Foreign Affairs ...

It was attended by the Mayor of Basingstoke, Cllr Dan Putty, who cut the ribbon outside to a roar of applause. It is the fifth McDonald’s restaurant in Basingstoke with others at the Top of Town, ...

Proposals to change the law to give terminally ill people “choice at the end of life” are to be introduced in Parliament this month. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said she hoped for “honest, compassionate ...

Helene came ashore last Thursday in northern Florida before carving a path of destruction through the south east.