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

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

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.

Scottish Water has announced an overnight road closure as part of an ongoing £2 million upgrade to North Ayrshire's water network.

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

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, ...

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.

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.

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 ...