More severe flooding is feared in Houston, Texas, after heavy rains led to crews rescuing hundreds of people from their homes ...

Christian Orthodox worshippers have thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for one of the most chaotic ...

In the tightly-fought contest for the West Midlands mayoralty, Labour won by just 1,508 votes over the Tory incumbent Andy Street.

Labour had a string of wins by incumbents as well as a clean sweep of victories in the areas that were voting for a mayor for the first time.

Mr Khan addressed the threats, social media abuse, and protests outside his family home and apologised to his wife and children.

Airport security officers in Miami found a scaly surprise last week — a bag of snakes hidden in a passenger’s trousers. According to an X post by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), ...

Tory candidate Andy Street had hoped to cling on in the West Midlands, but Labour challenger Richard Parker beat him with a majority of 1,508 votes.

A well-known UK-Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals said he has been denied entry to France to speak at a senate meeting about the Israel-Hamas war. French authorities did not give a ...

Labour’s West Midlands mayor, Richard Parker, is originally from Bristol and was raised by a dock worker and school secretary. He left school at 16 and went straight into work at a local port ...

A delegation of the Palestinian militant group Hamas is in Cairo as Egyptian state media reported “noticeable progress” in ...

Conference delegates called on the NAHT school leaders’ union to explore ‘legal and industrial routes’ to secure reforms needed to ...

UK bank holiday weekend weather will be a “mixed picture” with warmer-than-average sunny patches breaking through the clouds, the Met Office has said. Forecasters said Saturday and Sunday’s ...