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Venice was inundated by exceptionally high water levels yesterday, only days after the lagoon city suffered its worst flood in more than 50 years.

'Last Of The Summer Wine' star Jean Fergusson, known for playing the feisty Marina, has died at the age of 74.

The Duke of York has admitted that he "let the side down" over his friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein during an unprecedented television interview.

'Last Of The Summer Wine' star Jean Fergusson (pictured), known for playing the feisty Marina, has died at the age of 74.

New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who is deciding whether to launch a Democratic presidential bid, is pouring $100m (€90.5m) into an online advertising campaign attacking President Donald Trump.

An alleged attack on a Hong Kong government official in London has been condemned as "barbaric" by the leader of the Chinese territory, but demonstrators say the incident has been...

Federal prosecutors are examining whether US President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani stood to profit from a Ukrainian natural gas business pushed by two associates who aided his efforts...

US President Donald Trump on Friday released the rough transcript of a phone call he had with the incoming president of Ukraine.

Retail giant John Lewis has sent a box of treats to a Virginia-based lecturer who has the same name as the firm and continues to be bombarded with messages on...

Britain's Prince Andrew said in comments broadcast on Friday that he had no recollection of ever meeting an American woman who alleges she was forced to have sex with him...

Fire crews are tackling a large blaze "crawling up the cladding" of a building in Bolton, Greater Manchester.

A MAN who shot and killed his heavily pregnant ex-wife with a crossbow has claimed he only intended to get her attention when he fired the fatal bolt.

It hasn't taken long for players of Pokemon Sword and Shield to enjoy the apparent UK references in the game's new Galar region.

A San Francisco real estate heiress has been acquitted of killing the father of her children.

The London market nudged higher despite a mixed day which saw telecoms firms slump after the Labour Party outlined plans to turn broadband into a public service.

A jury will look at whether "prejudice" played a part in how police initially treated the deaths of serial killer Stephen Port's victims, a coroner has ruled.

President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary Twitter attack on a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on Friday as she testified to an impeachment hearing in Congress, a move she called...

President Donald Trump will try to convince US allies that they should increase defense spending, when he attends a meeting of NATO leaders next month in London, the White House...

THE former US ambassador to Ukraine who was branded "bad news" by President Donald Trump and removed, defended her record and told a televised impeachment hearing on Friday she did...

Shareholders in Government contractor Kier have succeeded in a major rebellion over the pay deal for its top executives.

The former American ambassador to Ukraine has told the impeachment hearing in the US of the “big threat” she felt upon being ousted from her post and learning that Donald...

The second day of impeachment hearings in the US has opened with the former American ambassador to Ukraine saying her abrupt removal by Donald Trump's administration played into the hands...

Protesters in Lebanon who have been demanding radical reform have reacted with anger to the reported designation of a new prime minister they regard as emblematic of a failed political...

Haynes Publishing, the company best known for producing car manuals in the days before the internet, has put itself up for sale, the company has confirmed.

Tesco has unveiled its 2019 Christmas advertising campaign, as it looks to drive customers into its stores for the key shopping period.

Turkey has sent more than 6,000 Syrian migrants in Istanbul to temporary housing centers in other provinces since early July, the local governor's office said on Friday. His statement came...

Lithuania, Russia and Norway conducted an exchange of spies on Friday, the head of Lithuanian counter intelligence said. The three states each secured the return of several captured agents to...

Astronauts have begun an extraordinarily complicated series of spacewalks to fix a cosmic ray detector at the International Space Station.

Germany's lower house of parliament on Friday voted to enshrine climate protection in law, setting specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its energy, transport and housing sectors. The...

Iraq will be deeply marked by the recent weeks of demonstrations demanding sweeping reforms, Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani said on Friday, in some of his strongest remarks yet on the protest...

Fuller's has warned it will cost more than expected to separate its two arms after it sold its brewing business earlier this year to Japan's Asahi.

Waters have been rising again in Venice, just three days after the Italian lagoon city experienced its worst flooding in more than 50 years.

Exceptionally high tidal waters have surged through Venice again.

Bangladesh coastguard rescued 122 Rohingya Muslim refugees from the Bay of Bengal on Thursday as the boat they had boarded to illegally flee to Malaysia started sinking due to a...

Shares in BT remained in negative territory, although up from initial falls of nearly 4%, as the City and analysts reacted to Labour's proposals to nationalise Openreach.

Israel said early on Friday that it has completed a series of airstrikes on targets linked to the Islamic jihad militant group in Gaza, after rocket fire that rattled a...

Venice braced for another devastating high tide on Friday morning as the lagoon city struggled with the wreckage left by the biggest surge of flood waters in 50 years earlier...

Chinese tech giant Huawei has begun selling its first foldable smartphone without Google apps or US-made processor chips following sanctions imposed by Washington.

The Turkish oil-and-gas drilling ship ‘Fatih' has started its operations off the coast of northeastern Cyprus, Turkish vice president Fuat Oktay was quoted as saying on Friday, despite warnings from...

British police said they are investigating the alleged assault on the Hong Kong justice secretary in London, but so far there have been not been any arrests.