Samarco – a joint venture of Vale and BHP – was responsible for what has been called the country’s worst environmental ...

North Korean troops are poised to be deployed by Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine as early as this weekend, Ukrainian ...

DiCaprio praised Ms Harris’s ambitious targets for achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and helping to build a green economy.

An online predator who drove one of his catfish victims in the US to take her own life has been jailed for at least 20 years. Alexander McCartney, 26, who admitted 185 charges involving 70 children, ...

Ex-chief executive Mike Jeffries, 80, his partner Matthew Smith, 61, and a third man, James Jacobson, 71, were arrested in the US on Tuesday morning after being charged with one count of sex ...

It can take days or even weeks for astronauts to readjust to gravity after living in weightlessness for several months.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said the Prime Minister is a “working person” as the Government continues to be asked to pin down the term ahead of tax rises expected in next week’s Budget. “The Prime ...

Two Scottish pensioners have been given permission to proceed with their legal challenge against the UK and Scottish and governments’ decision to cut the winter fuel payment.

In Gaza, Israeli air strikes and shelling hit houses in eastern areas of the southern city of Khan Younis late Thursday and ...

The UK’s competition watchdog is set to take mattress seller Emma to court over its online discounting, which it said could be misleading shoppers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) started ...

Edinburgh band Redolent have won the prestigious Scottish Album of the Year (Say) Award for their debut album Dinny Greet.

The 45th US president and his top allies have tried to infantilise the Democratic nominee as the November 5 election inches ...