Thousands of beer lovers have descended on Munich for the start of the world’s largest folk festival. Mayor Dieter Reiter ...

A lost cat has been reunited with his owners after an incredible 900-mile journey across the US. Rayne Beau — pronounced ...

Heavy rain has triggered landslides and led swollen rivers to overflow in a region of Japan still recovering from a deadly ...

The death toll from an Israeli air strike on a Beirut suburb has risen to 31, including seven women and three children, ...

Heavy rain has triggered landslides and floods in a northern region of Japan, leaving one person dead and several missing. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the highest level of alert for heavy ...

Some 700 paratroopers took part in the jump, including the Red Devils, the British Army’s freefall parachute display team. The event commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, part of ...

A Labour mayor has said he thinks there will be “a spoonful of sugar along with the medicine” in the Budget next month.

Meliesha Jones was dealing with a customer complaint with a colleague when she pressed reply instead of forward on an email.

Sir Mick Jagger has said he is “so sad” at the death of Cleo Sylvestre, “the first female vocalist to sing with the Stones”. Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, who had been a feature of film, ...

Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from ...

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

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