US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming, second administration.

A woman found dead in the boot of a car in east London has been named by Northamptonshire Police. Detectives believe that Harshita Brella, 24, of Corby, was attacked by someone she knew. A murder ...

Lord Blunkett is calling for action on “death trap” tube platforms after he was injured falling into the gap at Westminster station. The Labour peer, who is blind, called on Transport for London to do ...

An Arctic air is bringing the first chills of winter to the UK. The Met Office, which has issued weather warnings for snow and ice for parts of the country from Sunday to Tuesday, has urged people to ...

An Israeli airstrike on Saturday evening on a UN-run school sheltering displaced people killed 10 and wounded 20, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. It said two missiles were fired at the Abu ...

Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern city of Yixing on Saturday night, local police said. The attack occurred at the Wuxi ...

The Irish president has led tributes to comedian and actor Jon Kenny, who has died at the age of 66. The Limerick actor was best known as one half of the comic duo D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt. Mr ...

Mr Musk then used the rest of his post to become the first participant in the public poll he was proposing. He endorsed Howard Lutnick, the chief executive of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald ...

The View co-host claimed a New York bakery had declined to make her a batch of desserts for her birthday because of her political beliefs.

Further sanctions against Moscow will be discussed when Takeshi Iwaya meets his Ukrainian foreign ministry counterpart.

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has said that sliced onions on the Quarter Pounders were the likely source of the E. coli.

A woman’s body has been found in the boot of a car in east London, Northamptonshire Police have said. Detectives said a murder inquiry has been launched into the “suspicious” discovery in Ilford.