The prosecutor’s office in the far east of Russia said the man was rescued by a fishing vessel off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Sea of Okhotsk.

A man who sent a “disgustingly racist” letter to former prime minister Rishi Sunak has been told by a judge his actions were “abhorrent”. Stephen Burke sent the letter on November 9 2022, in which he ...

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of his daughter’s murder alongside Sara’s stepmother and uncle.

The latest drop in wage growth, to its lowest level for more than two years, is seen as easing those concerns and giving Bank policymakers more room to cut rates. So while lower wage growth may mean ...

The family of the late healthy eating advocate Michael Mosley have set up a memorial fund to raise money to research obesity and diabetes. Mosley, who died aged 67 while on holiday with his wife Dr ...

The Johnson Land Company (Bristol) Ltd. failed in its attempts to secure permission for 26 homes on Chapelfield in Oakhill, north of Shepton Mallet – with Mendip District Council turning down the ...

Part of the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens has been sealed off and disinfected, and experts have been called in to carry out tests.

Veterans’ ID cards will be a valid form of identification for upcoming elections, ministers have announced. The Government is also undertaking a wider review of the voter ID policy, which was ...

Israel has escalated its campaign against the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group, including launching a ground invasion.

The mother of Salisbury poisonings victim Dawn Sturgess has said her family found comfort that she was the only person to be killed by the Russian nerve agent Novichok “when the potential harm was ...

An estimated 90 per cent of victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in Avon & Somerset are unknown to the police, force chiefs say.

A wage growth figure which forms a key part of the triple lock formula used to calculate state pension rises was revised upwards on Tuesday.