Independence fighters led by Egianus Kogoya, a regional commander in the Free Papua Movement, stormed a single-engine plane ...

Mystery still surrounds the identity of a woman six months after her body was found in the River Mersey. Police appear to be no closer to identifying the slightly built woman, wearing a lime-green ...

Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from ...

Relatives of Alistair Wilson branded police “incompetent” and say they have lost trust in their ability to secure justice. The 30-year-old father of two was shot in Nairn in the Highlands in November ...

Great Paxton Scarecrow Festival returned on September 14 and has seen locals recreate musicians including Taylor Swift – 22 hat included – and Oasis in straw form and given the names T’Haylor Swift ...

Emma Raducanu’s injury problems struck again as she retired from her Korea Open quarter-final against top seed Daria Kasatkina. The 21-year-old Briton had just lost the first set 6-1 when she withdrew ...

Greg Bateman and Kai Horstmann will be climbing Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis and cycling the 675 kilometres between them.

Strictly’s Vito Coppola, Irish TV and radio presenter Craig Doyle and Line Of Duty actress Rochenda Sandall were in the BBC Celebrity ...

The plant on an island in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania was the site of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power ...

Voters lined up to cast their ballots in Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia – the states with the first early in-person ...

Nigel Farage and his deputy Richard Tice sought to capitalise on their links with the Trump campaign at Reform UK’s party ...

A passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible has told a US Coast Guard ...