The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday, surrounded by thousands of followers. Worshippers thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala, where the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has been living in ...

Rescuers were continuing to scour a devastated central Texas landscape of mangled trees, overturned cars and muck-filled debris in an increasingly bleak mission to locate survivors. The flooding in ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says Islamic and right-wing extremism remain Britain’s “biggest threats” ahead of the 20th anniversary of the July 7 bombings. On July 7 2005, four suicide bombers ...

Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has called for the creation of 12-15 mega forces as part of what he described as “the first serious reform of our policing model in over 60 years”.

REVISED plans to turn part of the former Nude Dunes restaurant into self-catering holiday accommodation has not received the backing of the Planning Committee – despite arguments that the new ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has made his first public appearance since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran began, attending a mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashoura. The absence ...

Next month will see “the second time Kneecap have beat the British Government in court”, the Irish rap trio said at their largest gig to date. The 45,000-strong crowd in Finsbury Park, London watched ...

Going without cash when abroad could be an expensive mistake for some holidaymakers, according to research, with more than one in three having found themselves caught out when needing physical money.

The Conservatives will try to change the Government’s welfare Bill to tighten up access to personal independence payments (Pip) and universal credit. Kemi Badenoch will pledge that the Tories are “now ...

Rescuers scoured flooded riverbanks littered with mangled trees and turned over rocks in the search for more than two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others missing after a wall of water ...

A qualified veterinary nurse, Robin Allix has in recent years travelled to South Africa in order to take part in conservation work aimed at preventing wild animals from being targeted by poachers. She ...

Spice Girls star Emma Bunton was among celebrities who descended on St Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate the wedding of her former bandmate Mel B. The 50-year-old singer, whose full name is Melanie Brown, ...