The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

TV presenter and radio host Paddy McGuinness has said supporters helped him keep the pedals turning on his charity cycle ride ...

A Pakistani province has declared a health emergency due to smog and imposed a shutdown in two major cities. Smog has choked ...

A policeman who was seriously injured when he was rammed off his motorbike by a man in a stolen car said the attack was a reminder of the dangers faced by officers.

The death of a motorcyclist who had to wait almost an hour for a paramedic to attend the scene of a crash was contributed to by ambulance service neglect, a coroner has ruled.

A social media user has hit out at Kemi Badenoch’s claim that a four-day week for councils is ‘part-time work for full-time pay’.

The knife handle figure, discovered in the River Tyne near Corbridge in Northumberland, is thought to have been bought as a ...

The party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a majority in parliament, providing a ...

Urfan Sharif and two others are accused of being party to years-long abuse that culminated in the 10-year-old’s death last August.

An inspection team from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was not told of a spike in neonatal mortality or that a number of the deaths were unexpected and unexplained when they visited the hospital in ...

Matthew Haydon was sentenced to four and a half years in prison with a four-year extended licence period, at the Old Bailey.

Japan’s Princess Yuriko has died aged 101 after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said. Yuriko was the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial ...