Cyprus has set to open its borders to Britons is still more than two weeks before the earliest people in England will be able to leave the country for holidays

Tsunami warnings were triggered across the South Pacific following one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the region in modern history.The magnitude 8.1 quake in the Kermadec Islands region about 620 miles from New Zealand’s two main islands was ...

Nine migrants in an SUV packed with 25 people suffered major injuries after their vehicle slammed into a lorry and killed 13 others inside, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) said.

The Biden administration has stepped up its condemnation of the coup in Myanmar, demanding that military authorities stop their brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters and release demonstrators and journalists who have been detained.

One of the women who accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment said she was motivated to come forward after seeing the Democratic governor’s name mentioned as a potential cabinet position nominee for President Joe Biden.

Cases of the variant, referred to as VUI-202102/04, were first identified on February 15 through genomic horizon scanning

The United Kingdom 'is over' and a new union should be crafted to reflect a 'voluntary association of four nations', Wales’ First Minister has said

The move came at the behest of Italy, which has been taking a tough line in dealing with vaccine shortages

The threat comes two months after a mob of Donald Trump supporters smashed through windows and doors to try to stop Congress from certifying now-president Joe Biden’s victory

Maxwell is in a US prison, awaiting trial on charges that she recruited three teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse between 1994 and 1997

Israel’s environmental protection minister has stood by her allegation that a crude oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean last month was an intentional attack by Iran, but provided no evidence for her claim.

A Hong Kong court has ordered that all 47 pro-democracy activists charged under a Beijing-imposed national security law be kept in custody, after the Department of Justice appealed an initial decision to grant bail to 15 of them.

Demonstrators in Myanmar protesting against last month’s military coup have returned to the streets, undaunted by the killing of at least 38 people by security forces the previous day.

Scotland Yard will not launch a criminal investigation into BBC journalist Martin Bashir’s interview with Princess Diana.

Germany’s independent vaccine committee has formally approved giving the AstraZeneca jab to people aged 65 and over, the country’s health minister has said.

Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school have been returned to their families amid chaos as security forces opened fire on a gathering outside the school where the reunions were held.

China has said astronauts are training for four crewed missions this year as the country works to complete its first permanent orbiting space station.

A statement said the 99-year-old duke will remain in hospital for “treatment, rest and recuperation” for a number of days

The EMA's human medicines committee has begun the review based “on results from laboratory studies and clinical studies in adults

Myanmar security forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down and even beating an ambulance crew in video showing a dramatic escalation of violence against opponents of last month’s military coup.

Coronavirus vaccines tweaked to deal with variants will be fast-tracked without compromising on safety or effectiveness, the UK’s regulator has said.

The 13 people killed in one of the deadliest highway crashes involving migrants sneaking into the US had entered California through a section of border fence with Mexico that was cut away, apparently by smugglers, immigration officials have said.

Detectives in the US are looking at data from the so-called black box from Tiger Woods’s SUV to get a clearer picture of what occurred during the crash in which the golf star was seriously injured last week, authorities have said.

Germany is extending its coronavirus lockdown until March 28 but easing some restrictions to allow non-essential stores and other businesses to reopen in areas with relatively low infection rates.

Security forces in Myanmar dramatically escalated their crackdown on demonstrations against last month’s coup, killing at least 34 protesters in several cities on Wednesday, according to accounts on social media and local news reports.

A man armed with an axe has injured eight people in a town in southern Sweden before being shot and arrested. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said a possible terrorist motive was being investigated.

Andrew Cuomo said he will 'fully cooperate' with the state attorney general’s investigation into sexual harassment allegations.

Donald McPherson is accused of a 'sinister pre-planned killing' of his wife, who drowned in a 4ft deep swimming pool at the cottage they rented while on holiday in Denmark

Armenian authorities deployed snipers in the parliament building as thousands of protesters rallied nearby, and launched a criminal investigation against a top opposition leader amid the country’s spiralling political crisis.

Thursday, March 4 marks the date when some right-wing conspiracy theorists have claimed that former President Donald Trump will be sworn in for a second term

Alek Minassian faced 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder in connection with the April 23 2018 attack that drew attention to an online world of sexual loneliness, rage and misogyny

At least 10 rockets have targeted an Iraqi military base in the west of the country which hosts US-led coalition troops, officials have said.The rockets struck Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province at 7.20am local time (4.20am GMT), Col Wayne ...

The International Criminal Court prosecutor has said she has launched an investigation into alleged Israeli crimes in the Palestinian territories.

The Kremlin has shrugged off new Western sanctions over the poisoning and arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as unfounded and pointless, but warned that Moscow will retaliate.

Police spokesman Menno Hartenberg said it was unclear whether the testing centre had been deliberately targeted, or when the facility would be able to reopen

European countries should “get on” with using the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in elderly people to save lives, a member of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has said, as a new study found that a single dose gives ...

There has long been speculation about the atmosphere in the Sussex household after a number of staff left, and the newspaper chronicles what it describes as “turmoil” within palace walls

Security forces in Myanmar have shot and killed at least six people, according to local news reports and accounts on social media. The news comes as authorities extend their crackdown on protests against last month’s coup.

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said British government support for airlines during the coronavirus pandemic has been “lamentable”. He claimed there is “much more to be done” to help the industry during the Covid-19 crisis.

She apologised to the public and the women who submitted sexual harassment complaints about her predecessor as First Minister for the Scottish Government’s investigation

A probe into the cause of the blast is under way.

Intense preparations are being carried out as the Pope prepares to meet a revered Shia cleric in Iraq’s holiest city.

Founded in 1956, New Scientist has a weekly circulation of around 120,000, of which just over half are based in the UK

Police in Myanmar have again used tear gas and rubber bullets to violently disperse protesters against last month’s military takeover.

The so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the killing of three women working for a local radio and TV station in eastern Afghanistan. The shootings are the latest in a spike in targeted killings across the war-torn country.

US president Joe Biden said he expects to take delivery of enough coronavirus vaccines for all adults by the end of May – two months earlier than anticipated – and he pushed states to get at least one dose into the arms of teachers by the end of ...

Authorities are investigating whether human smuggling was involved after a crash involving an SUV packed with 25 people and a lorry left 13 people dead and bodies strewn across a roadway near the US-Mexico border.

Even as he expressed optimism, President Biden quickly tempered the outlook for a return to life as it was before the virus hit

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash

A January 5 report from the FBI’s field office in Norfolk, Virginia, warned of online posts foreshadowing a 'war' in Washington the following day