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

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death on Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials could not get the drugs needed for lethal ...

A weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy showers is in force across much of southern England and Wales. The Met Office says damage to buildings as a result of lightning strikes, disruption to ...

Multiple roads will be closed in West Bay on Wednesday, October 2 while electrical work is carried out by the National Grid ...

Kate Winter is the winner of the 2024 Klaus Flugge Prize for her picture book The Fossil Hunter, a true life story about Mary Anning ...

Seaside historian Dr Kathryn Ferry will be charting the part these items all played in a talk entitled the History of the British Seaside in 100 Objects. The talk will take place at the Bridport Town ...

These old homes by the beach at West Bay are certainly quaint - and one even had a celebrity resident. The picture above shows some beach-side bungalows in the west Dorset resort and a depiction of an ...

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

The New Zealand pilot who has been held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region has been freed by separatist rebels, Indonesian authorities said on Saturday. Phillip Mark Mehrtens, ...

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

Two former Exeter Chiefs rugby players are taking on the Three Peaks challenge with the added twist of cycling between each mountain to raise awareness for mental health support in rugby and ...

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