The death toll has risen to 10 from the Los Angeles-area fires, according to the county coroner’s office. The fast-moving ...

Images of two men have been released by police investigating the whereabouts of a seven-year-old boy who has been missing with his mother since last summer. Adam Glanville and his mother Karima ...

Overnight temperatures fell as low as minus 14C in Altanharra, northern Scotland, according to the Met Office.

England’s forthcoming cricket match against Afghanistan should not be cancelled amid calls for a boycott over the Taliban’s treatment of women, the Culture Secretary has said. A cross-party group of ...

Hundreds of homes in Bricket Wood have been left without power this morning after an outage in the early hours.

It is particularly worrying that so much excessive speeding observed by drivers appears to take place on 20mph and 30mph roads as this is where the greatest number of vulnerable road users, such as ...

The co-leader of the Scottish Greens says his party is yet to make a “final decision” on whether to support the Scottish Budget, and still regrets the end of the powersharing deal with the SNP.

A Hertfordshire and Welwyn Hatfield councillor who works as an NHS surgeon used an iPad to cheat during two medical exam papers.

A Cabinet minister has insisted there is no need to be worried about rising Government borrowing costs after yields on UK bonds surged to their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis.

US President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing on Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the ...

Sarah Breeden, the Bank’s deputy governor for financial stability, also said firms might respond to the tax rises by cutting staff or ...