The strike action is affecting 36 ports and is the first by the International Longshoremen’s Association since 1977.

The bus was carrying 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province for a school trip in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces, reporters were told.

While factory production rose for the fifth successive month, a survey showed confidence falling to a nine-month low.

COLCHESTER United under-18s lost 3-2 at home to Ipswich Town in the Professional Development League, writes BRIAN WALLER. Nelson Eze missed with an attempt at an acrobatic effort for Town while at the ...

Victoria Lupton has been in Lebanon with her husband and two-year-old daughter since September 17 and has a flight out booked for Wednesday.

A lorry has fallen more than 60 feet from a bridge on the M6 in Cheshire. The vehicle plummeted from the Thelwall Viaduct between junctions 20 and 21, landing on the embankment below, Cheshire ...

Tory leadership hopeful James Cleverly has said he supports Israel’s military incursion into Lebanon. The former foreign secretary said that Israel has “the right to defend itself” but that his ...

Tesco and Sainsbury’s have been accused of misleading their customers over their front-of-store recycling schemes. The accusation comes after an investigation found that most soft plastic returned to ...

The former Home Office minister insisted he was unable to go into ‘particular cases’ when pressed to back up his claim.

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as US president, Jimmy Carter has reached the century mark. The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, turned 100 on Tuesday October 1, ...

The Georgia Democrat and 39th president was born on October 1 1924 in Plains, where he has lived more than 80 of his 100 years.

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