The fire is burning just south of Lake Piru, a reservoir in the Los Padres National Forest. It is close by Lake Castaic, a ...

A fast-growing brush fire has forced thousands of people to evacuate a mountainous area north of Los Angeles. The Canyon Fire ...

“In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,” the vice president said at the time. In the White House earlier this year, Mr Vance said he knew of “infringements on free speech ...

A person has been hit by a train with London rail lines closed by the emergency services, and live updates here.

Bastille and Damon Albarn are among the artists announced to be playing at Brian Eno’s Together For Palestine benefit concert.

A north London pub could lose its licence after Haringey Council and the Metropolitan Police called the amount of incidents at the ...

“On Friday at around lunchtime, there was a small rockfall in the Loom area (back of the Giant’s Causeway) in Port Noffer,” they said. “As a dynamic site, rockfalls do occasionally occur at the World ...

The boy was hit by a single-decker bus near the entrance to the A&E department of the the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital in Margate.

The last of 72,000 homes which lost power during Storm Floris have been reconnected after five days. Power network Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) said the storm was “exceptional” ...

A half-naked man in a “mental health” crisis has been beaten up by passengers on the District line near East Ham station.

The fashion chain is to close a raft of high street stores after a court judge approved its restructuring plan.

Scottish First Minister John Swinney has praised the work done by Sir Chris Hoy to raise awareness of prostate cancer following a meeting at Bute House. The champion cyclist, along with his wife Lady ...