Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst economic crisis and resulting political upheaval.

The plant on an island in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania was the site of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power ...

Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on Rust, was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has ...

Gaute Haugenes, who managed the team from 2001 to 2003, told the BBC members of staff were aware Mr Al Fayed ‘liked young, blonde girls’.

A passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible has told a US Coast Guard ...

The European Union has pledged to lend Ukraine up to 35 billion euro (£29 billion) as part of a loan package organised by the ...

An open letter asks world leaders to agree to help children meet their potential ‘without threat from ever-worsening climate disasters’.

Commons Leader Lucy Powell hailed the 2024 election as a landmark for women’s representation, returning both the highest number and highest proportion of female MPs in history. Some 263 women were ...

The rare strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs killed Ibrahim Akil, a commander of the Lebanese militant group’s elite Radwan Force.

Consumers who buy their food at convenience stores could be paying up to a fifth more than at larger branches of the same supermarket, according to a study.

Haiti’s police force lacks the logistical and technical capacity to fight gangs, said William O’Neill who visited the troubled country this week.

The Israeli military has announced that its air strike on a neighbourhood of Beirut killed Ibrahim Akil, a senior Hezbollah military official. There was no immediate confirmation of his death from ...