A digital counter on the Reform website showed the membership ticking over the 131,680 of the Conservative Party before lunchtime on Boxing Day ...

Pope Francis has inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison, taking a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century celebration which is ...

The Mayor of the West Midlands has announced a service offering free bus travel will be available on New Year's Day.

Temperatures are expected to reach up to 14C with widely cloudy conditions and patchy rain in some areas, the Met Office said.

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are preparing for potentially devastating wildfires as a heatwave fanned by erratic winds presented the worst fire conditions ...

The FSB said the suspected organisers of the attacks were planning to kill a senior defence official using a remotely controlled car bomb.

Climate change has led to extremes including a summer heatwave as well as snowfall and several storms this year.

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which ...

Azerbaijan observed a nationwide day of mourning on Thursday for the victims of a plane crash in which 38 people were killed and all 29 survivors injured as speculation mounted about the possible ...

A man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found nine days after she was reported missing. The body of Mariann Borocz, who was reported missing on December 14, was discovered by ...

Moscow has launched a massive missile barrage on Christmas Day, with the aim of crippling energy infrastructure sites across ...

A woman is being questioned by police after she was arrested on suspicion of murdering a man on Christmas Day in a Staffordshire village. Staffordshire Police said officers were called to a report of ...