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London's top shares only just avoided slipping into the red on Tuesday as geopolitical tensions continued to weigh on the markets.

Boris Johnson has said he makes models of buses out of old wine crates to relax.

Prime Ministerial frontrunner Boris Johnson has said he makes models of buses out of old wine crates to relax.

Train and bus operator FirstGroup has defeated attempts by an activist investor to oust six board members, including the chief executive and chairman.

Scientists say they have successfully transferred a test tube rhino embryo back into a female whose eggs were fertilised in vitro, as part of efforts to save another nearly extinct...

A 92-year-old great-great-grandmother was arrested by police at her own request because she “wanted to know what it was like to be naughty”.

Orangutans at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo are keeping cool with buckets of water as much of Europe swelters in a summer heatwave.

A train passenger was stabbed 18 times in front of his 14-year-old son after a heated row over blocking the aisle, a court has heard.

A train passenger was stabbed 18 times in front of his 14-year-old son after a heated row over blocking the aisle, a court has heard.

Social media users are being encouraged to take their plastic packaging back to the supermarket, in a campaign backed by stars including Sir David Attenborough, Joanna Lumley and Mary Berry.

Upmarket cafe chain Le Pain Quotidien has fallen into the red as “challenging” high street conditions weighed on sales in 2018.

Iran has sharply criticised new US sanctions targeting the Islamic Republic's supreme leader and other senior officials, saying the measures spell the “permanent closure” of diplomacy between the two nations.

A pink rainbow lit up the sky on Monday evening.

Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be the next British Prime Minister, faced continued questions about his personal life as he attempted to shift the focus back onto plans for his...

Disposable plastic cutlery, polystyrene packaging and plastic cotton buds and stirrers are among eight items that should be eliminated by the end of 2020, according to a report.

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has said his boat trip off Spain with family and friends was cut short after a fire broke out on board.

Mining giant Anglo American has reported a slump in diamond sales, blaming a fall in demand from Asian customers.

A descendant of the last German kaiser has lost a court bid for the return of a castle overlooking the Rhine valley, part of which has been turned into a...

Three astronauts have safely returned to Earth after spending more than six months aboard the International Space Station.

The wet start to the summer sent ice cream, beer and burger sales plummeting on this time last year as shoppers turned to soup to cope with the unseasonable conditions,...

Meteorologists have placed more than half of France, including around Paris, on alert for high temperatures as a heatwave was expected to spread across Europe.

The new US sanctions targeting Iran's supreme leader and other top officials mean the "permanent closure" of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has said.

Struggling Carpetright has revealed the extent of the pain the retailer has faced since going through a major restructuring.

SpaceX has launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites.

A jury in the US on Monday recommended the death penalty for a man convicted this month of the 2010 sledgehammer killings of a family of four whose bodies were...

The new US sanctions targeting Iran's supreme leader and other top officials mean the “permanent closure” of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has said.

Three astronauts have safely returned to Earth after spending more than six months aboard the International Space Station.

Iran's UN ambassador has warned that the situation in the Persian Gulf is “very dangerous” and called talks with the US impossible in the face of escalating sanctions and intimidation.

President Donald Trump has said that a New York-based advice columnist who accused him of sexually assaulting her in a department store in the mid-1990s is not his “type”.

A Texas woman is accused of killing her three-year-old son by running him over with her car in a game of chicken.

Donald Trump signed "hard-hitting" sanctions against Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei in the latest round of a stand-off that has brought the United States and the Islamic republic to the...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan was reeling yesterday after the opposition dealt him a stinging blow by winning control of Istanbul in a re-run mayoral election.

Male fertility is being irreversibly damaged by a diet of junk food by the time men reach 18, a study has found.

Barcelona's mayor has ordered the expropriation of an "empty" flat owned by a bank, as the city faces a housing shortage.

Common drugs including antidepressants could increase the risk of dementia by up to 50pc, a major study has found.

An iconic Ferrari has been recognised by an Italian court as a work of art, in an unprecedented judgment that will protect it from reproductions and imitations.

Joe Biden has kicked off the most high-stakes week so far of his campaign to run for US president, as he heads into the first Democratic debate with the opportunity...

Australia has rescued eight children and grandchildren of two dead Australian Isil jihadists from a Syrian refugee camp.

A Cypriot army captain has tearfully apologised to the families of seven foreign women and girls for the "unjust pain" he has caused them after pleading guilty to a dozen...

They were the lovestruck images intended to bury what has been a weekend of bad news for Boris Johnson.