Despite vowing to stick to Labour’s 2024 manifesto promises, Burnham appears to have left the door open for further drilling ...

Polling stations have now closed across Greater Manchester in the historic by-election to determine the region’s next mayor.

Alpine Club of Pakistan received initial reports that an avalanche struck the team led by Purja and the climbers have been ...

The victims’ families were offered a compensation of 500,000 Pakistani rupees (approximately $1,800) for each miner killed ...

In 1976, Labour was forced to appoint a ‘minister for drought’ – and the results were surprising. Sean O’Grady looks at how ...

An official survey shows China's factory activity slowed in July, the first time it has contracted in in five months ...

Human-caused global warming made the hot, dry and windy conditions that fuelled the fires at least twice as likely in ...

Diane Abbott has been readmitted to the Labour Party after an internal investigation, the veteran MP has said. She was ...

In a scathing 16-page document, the Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has lashed out at ...

Hundreds of exotic-looking sea creatures have washed up on beaches in northwest England after being driven there by westerly ...

Before its eradication in 1980, largely due to vaccination, smallpox stood as one of humanity's deadliest diseases ...

The death toll has climbed to 34 from a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan that set off an explosion at a mall, ...