A Whitehall source told The Times the government was bracing itself for possible school closures - although a spokesperson ...

The man died after police were called to Elm Road, Norton Canes near Cannock, in the early hours of Christmas Day ...

Archaeologists are beginning to reveal the secrets of a vanished prehistoric land which now lies at the bottom of the North ...

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A 39-year-old was shot dead by armed police in Redditch on Christmas Eve. Police officers were called to an address in ...

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The Mega Millions jackpot is now around $1.15 billion ($516.1 million in cash), the highest-ever amount offered in December.

Troels Lund Poulsen, the Danish defense minister, told the paper Jyllands-Posten Tuesday that the country plans to spend a ...

People have started gathering in prayer and are visiting mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province to mark 20 years since the ...

An international investigation has begun into how an Embraer 190 passenger jet with 67 people onboard crashed in Kazakhstan, ...

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Here we are again with the same old formula, the same old characters and the familiar complete and total absence of wit ...