Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from its worst economic crisis and resulting political upheaval.

The plant on an island in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania was the site of the nation’s worst commercial nuclear power ...

Nigel Farage and his deputy Richard Tice sought to capitalise on their links with the Trump campaign at Reform UK’s party ...

Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on Rust, was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has ...

Gaute Haugenes, who managed the team from 2001 to 2003, told the BBC members of staff were aware Mr Al Fayed ‘liked young, blonde girls’.

A working group will bring together ministers, energy firms and consumer bodies to create a new tariff which could cut bills ...

An open letter asks world leaders to agree to help children meet their potential ‘without threat from ever-worsening climate disasters’.

Consumers who buy their food at convenience stores could be paying up to a fifth more than at larger branches of the same supermarket, according to a study.

A coast guard panel listened to four days of evidence that has raised questions about whether warning signs before the disaster were ignored.

Haiti’s police force lacks the logistical and technical capacity to fight gangs, said William O’Neill who visited the troubled country this week.

Voters lined up to cast their ballots in Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia – the states with the first early in-person voting opportunities.

Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, had been a feature of film, stage, television and music since the 1960s.