Japan’s parliament has formally elected Shigeru Ishiba, head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, as the country’s new ...

THANKS have been paid to the chairperson of Tranent and Elphinstone Community Council for his service as he steps down following a decade ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has confirmed the band will only make 12 studio albums together. The pop-rock group, comprised of vocalist Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, drummer Will Champion and ...

TIME is running out for a fireworks display to be organised in Haddington. The annual event, which takes place off the town’s Whittingehame Drive, has been organised by Lorraine Dickson and Betty ...

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

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spoken in public for the first time since being released from prison after he struck a deal with the United States. He travelled from Australia to Strasbourg to ...