A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel has hit a herd of wild elephants in north-east Sri Lanka, killing two and ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes paused his concert to pay tribute to the late One Direction singer Liam Payne. Payne died aged 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel ...

At least 50 people have been killed in new Israeli strikes in Gaza, including children, according to hospital officials. In ...

David Lammy said it had been important to ‘restart dialogue’ with China, adding there had not been ‘sufficient contact’ under ...

Philip G Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment which was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died at the age of 91. Stanford ...

Sunday’s Great South Run has been cancelled because of high winds and rain expected from Storm Ashley, organisers have said. Great Run, which organises the annual 10-mile race in Portsmouth, Hampshire ...

Cuba’s electrical grid went down on Friday after one of the island’s major power plants failed, a day after a massive ...

A remembrance service has been held to pay tribute to Sir John Campbell, who died at the aged 90 on September 10.

The former boss of Stirling Council has been appointed as the SNP’s interim chief executive after the resignation of Murray Foote. Carol Beattie was appointed interim chief executive by the party’s ...

Kamala Harris insisted it was time to “end the suffering” in the Middle East while Donald Trump visited one of the nation’s ...

David Lammy pressed his Chinese counterpart on human rights concerns and Beijing’s support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...

RESIDENTS are up in arms about a plan to site 80 containers at an industrial estate in Peebles. The proposal, on unused former grazing land at South Parks, has attracted tens of objections, including ...