Azerbaijan observed a nationwide day of mourning on Thursday for the victims of a plane crash in which 38 people were killed ...

Analysts predicted Boxing Day shoppers would spend £236 each on average in the Boxing Day sales this year, with most purchases made online.

Data updated on Thursday indicated that 451 migrants arrived on December 25 on 11 boats. The last time vessels carrying migrants were known to have arrived was on December 14, when 160 people arrived ...

Two women have died and a man and teenage boy suffered serious injuries after reports of a stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day. A 49-year-old man from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was ...

A digital counter on the Reform website showed the membership ticking over the 131,680 of the Conservative Party before lunchtime on Boxing Day ...

Pope Francis has inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison, taking a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century celebration which is ...

Temperatures are expected to reach up to 14C with widely cloudy conditions and patchy rain in some areas, the Met Office said.

The FSB said the suspected organisers of the attacks were planning to kill a senior defence official using a remotely controlled car bomb.

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are preparing for potentially devastating wildfires as a heatwave fanned by erratic winds presented the worst fire conditions ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after pedestrians were hit by a far in central London on Christmas Day.

A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which killed more than 200,000 people. The Prime Minister was among those paying tribute, saying his ...

Barclays Consumer Spend researchers forecast a total of £4.6 billion will be spent and the vast majority of sales will be online.