A trial has begun for 19 defendants accused of involvement in last year’s shooting rampage in a Moscow concert hall that killed 149 people and wounded more than 600 others.

The MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch said she does not wish to ‘miss any more of the precious early years of family life’.

Weather warnings are in force as Storm Floris begins to batter the UK and Ireland, with high winds hitting coastal areas and travel disruption expected. A yellow warning for wind for northern parts of ...

Dancer Louie Spence has recalled how a swimming task on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins left him “suffocating”. The Channel 4 military-style reality show returned on Sunday and saw 14 new celebrity ...

Iran founded a new defence council after attacks in June by Israel and the US, Iranian state media has reported. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the country’s highest security body, made the ...

Protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers must not be used to “have a pop at the police”, the border security minister has warned.

Lloyds Banking Group and Close Brothers saw big share gains after the industry won a reprieve in the motor finance case before the UK’s ...

Vanessa Frake warned the current justice system is ‘warehousing prisoners’ and ‘turning out better criminals into society’.

Hong Kong authorities strengthened a crackdown on 16 overseas-based activists who were previously targeted by bounties on suspicion of endangering national security, implementing measures that include ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, a liberal who took office in June after winning an early election to replace ousted conservative Yoon Suk Yeol, has vowed to improve relations with Pyongyang, ...

A DESSERT shop in the middle of town looks to be taking on some very savoury options. Frizzles in Andover's Chantry Centre has put up signage, which says it will be "closed from the 1st August" and ...

The closure will allow Clanville Draintech Limited to install a new foul drainage sewer connection and mains water supplies.