Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass ...

Police confirmed they were supporting the family of Edward Pettifer, 31, of Chelsea, who was killed in the attack in Bourbon Street.

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died aged 116, officials said. Ms Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo ...

Six days of funeral observances for Jimmy Carter are due to begin in Georgia, where the former US president died on December 29 at the age of 100. The first events reflect Mr Carter’s climb up the ...

Campaigners in Wivelsfield Green, East Sussex, say inappropriate development over the last decade has put a ‘massive strain’ ...

A fire that broke out at a shopping centre in Dallas has killed more than 500 animals, most of which were small birds, authorities said. The 579 animals in the pet shop at Plaza Latina in the ...

Pieces of false or biased information distributed by Beijing rose to 2.16 million last year, from 1.33 million in 2023, figures showed.