US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming, second administration. Chief executive of ...

A variety of political stories are jostling for centre stage on the front pages of Sunday’s newspapers. The Observer reports on a “shocking increase” in the number of vulnerable children being left in ...

A US animal shelter is dealing with a great big problem after a man arrived to hand over what he initially said was 150 mice.

Ten newborn babies have been killed after a fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, ...

Russian engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defences as cover for a horrific ...

A woman found dead in the boot of a car in east London has been named by Northamptonshire Police. Detectives believe that Harshita Brella, 24, of Corby, was attacked by someone she knew. A murder ...

The Met Office, which has issued weather warnings for snow and ice for parts of the country from Sunday to Tuesday, has urged people to get their “woolly jumpers at the ready!” as “temperatures are ...

Lord Blunkett is calling for action on “death trap” tube platforms after he was injured falling into the gap at Westminster station. The Labour peer, who is blind, called on Transport for London to do ...

A gold pocket watch presented to the captain of a boat which rescued more than 700 passengers from the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking £1.56 million. It was the highest amount ever paid for ...

All the celebrities and their professional partners have completed their dances for another week on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and the scores are in. Strictly Come Daning returned to Blackpool on ...

Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern city of Yixing on Saturday night, local police said. The attack occurred at the Wuxi ...