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Jet2.com and EasyJet have bought all of collapsed tour operator Thomas Cook's landing slots at in the UK, the company's liquidators have said.

A rabbit has been rescued by the RSPCA after being found in a cardboard box with a teddy bear.

Games Workshop has seen its shares jump higher after telling investors that sales and profits are set to surge for the first of the year.

When a toxic smog darkened the skies over the Indian capital last weekend and air pollution peaked to its highest levels this year, Nabeela Moinuddin and Fareeda, living on opposite...

Beijing called on Vietnam on Friday not to “complicate” the South China Sea issue, after a senior official in Vietnam said it could explore legal action in its territorial dispute...

Former Libertines and Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty has been arrested in Paris for buying cocaine, French authorities have said.

Care home investor Target Healthcare has snapped up 39 properties across the UK in an £81.3 million deal.

The boss and finance chief of Asian-focused bank Standard Chartered have agreed to cut their pay after facing an angry backlash from shareholders.

Honda has become the latest car maker to report weaker earnings as global demand softens.

Moscow expects Washington and Pyongyang to resume the discussion of the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Friday. “We hope it will be...

Spain is holding its fourth general election in as many years amid voter distrust and a renewed Catalan independence bid that has bolstered right-wing politicians. The first obstacle for the...

British Airways owner International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) has scaled back its forecasts for airline capacity over the next three years as it posted a rise in passenger numbers last...

A forthcoming book by an anonymous insider in the Trump administration has described the US president as volatile, incompetent and unfit to be commander-in-chief.

Opera star Placido Domingo has decided not to perform at a pre-Olympics cultural event in Japan, according to the Tokyo games organising committee.

Officials in Bosnia have expressed outrage over remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he described the country as a “ticking time-bomb” and the greatest concern for Europe in...

An auction of items which belonged to late The Prodigy star Keith Flint “surpassed all expectations”, fetching a total of £347,750.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is strongly considering entering the race for the 2020 US Democratic presidential nomination, a move that could greatly disrupt the field just three...

Scientific testing showed that blood found on the fridge in the apartment of a man accused of murdering British backpacker Grace Millane was 500,000 million times more likely to belong...

A Hong Kong university student who fell off a parking garage after police fired tear gas during clashes with anti-government protesters has died.

Several people have been killed and dozens were reported injured in a 5.9-magnitude quake that struck Iran some 60 km (35 miles) from the town of Hastrud in the East...

An 89-year-old Italian woman who survived the Holocaust has been given police protection after receiving a barrage of anti-Semitic threats.

The famous bellows of "Order!" by former British parliamentary Speaker John Bercow have left Westminster and gone into a dance remix gone viral at the hands of Belgian musician Michael...

An 82-year-old man who has become the first person in the UK to cycle a million miles has declared he has a million miles yet to go before he dies.

Jeremy Corbyn's bid for Number 10 has suffered a series of blows as two former Labour MPs urged voters to back Boris Johnson instead in the UK general election.

"Climate strike" has been crowned Collins Dictionary's word of 2019.

The thought of space flight may make the heart skip a beat, but travelling beyond Earth could actually alter the organ's cells.

Iran injected uranium gas into centrifuges at its underground Fordo nuclear complex yesterday, taking its most-significant step away from its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

People in New South Wales have been warned to avoid talking themselves up on dates as Australia's biggest state considers law reforms which would mean sexual consent obtained through lying...

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned European countries they could no longer rely on the United States to defend Nato allies.

Enjoyment of music comes from the right combination of uncertainty and surprise, according to an analysis of more than 700 pop songs.

Prosecutors pulled back the curtain on Roger Stone's private dealings with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, portraying the president's longtime adviser as a liar who misled Congress about his outreach...

Donald Trump has angrily denied asking his attorney general, William Barr, to declare publicly that his phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was not illegal, only for Mr Barr...

"Climate strike" has been crowned Collins Dictionary's word of 2019.

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, is opening the door to a 2020 presidential campaign.

AN IRISH truck driver was released without charge last night after 15 migrants suspected of entering the UK illegally were found in the back of a lorry on a motorway.

Toby Carvery has launched a delivery service for its roast dinners.

Cristiano Ronaldo's lawyers won a US courtroom bid to block a woman accusing the football superstar of raping her in Las Vegas in 2009 from digging into the validity of...

A New York state judge has ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to pay $2m (€1.81m) for misusing his namesake charitable foundation, resulting in funds being used to advance his 2016...

A New York state judge ordered US President Donald Trump to pay $2 million for “misusing” the Trump Foundation. The funds will be directed to a group of nonprofits, as...

The governments of the United States and Chile are discussing co-hosting an APEC summit in the US in January, after Chile dropped plans to stage the event in Santiago this...