The task force was set up after Russian President Vladimir Putin called on authorities to ramp up the response to the spill.

Wes Streeting has described nurses as “the backbone of our NHS” after a staff member was left in a critical condition by a stabbing in a hospital’s A&E department.

An American writer living in Edinburgh has said it is “heartbreaking” to see her former home in the Pacific Palisades ravaged ...

Andy Burrows, chief executive of the Molly Rose Foundation – named after Molly Russell who killed herself after viewing ...

Firefighters scrambled on Sunday to make further progress against wildfires that have killed 16 people in the Los Angeles area as forecasters again warned of dangerous weather with the return of ...

The annual No Trousers Tube Ride event has returned in colourful fashion as people stripped down to their underwear and hopped on the London Underground. Hordes of bare legs were seen at Newport Place ...

Searchers in the Dolomites said they have found items belonging to Aziz Ziriat, 36, who has been missing since January 1.

North Yorkshire Police Constable Rosie Prior’s family described her as “a loving mum, wife, daughter, sister, aunty” who will be ...

Mohammed Saleem, 59, of Nottingham, admitted that he sexually touched a woman in Basingstoke on March 23 last year.

Sustainable Overton, a volunteer environmental group from Overton who work to combat climate change, has celebrated its fifth birthday.

A young gorilla rescued from a plane’s cargo hold is recovering at an Istanbul zoo, officials said, while wildlife officers consider returning him to his natural habitat. The five-month-old gorilla ...

Cumali Turhan, 46, was last seen in The Globe pub in Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, in the early hours of November 19.