Security was tight on Wednesday around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where weeks of student-led protests shook the party in ...

Public transport projects across the North and Midlands are to be backed by the Treasury as part of a £15.6 billion package ...

A bogus psychiatrist has been ordered to pay back the NHS more than £400,000 or face two-and-a-half more years in prison. Zholia Alemi, 62, was jailed in February 2023 for seven years after she ...

The schoolgirl was strip searched by police while on her period after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis in December 2020.

A resident of New York and Paris for much of his adult life, he was a novelist, journalist, biographer, playwright, activist, teacher and memoirist.

Lecturers at the University of Edinburgh are set to walk out in a dispute over the university’s refusal to rule out “unacceptable” compulsory redundancies as part of plans to save £140 million.

The family of Tina Satchwell, nee Dingivan, have paid tribute to their loved one, who they lost as a result of a “despicable crime” committed by her husband, Richard Satchwell.

The United Nations human rights office expressed concerns on Wednesday about the discovery of dozens of bodies, some charred and buried and others in hospital refrigerators, in an area of Libya’s ...

A body has been found in the search for a Scottish man who went missing in Portugal. Greg Monks, 38, disappeared in Albufeira last month, reportedly during a stag party. Portuguese police said on ...

Disused and dangerous stables at a Borders hotel need to be demolished in the interests of public safety, a new report reveals.

The Prince of Wales has pledged to raise the accommodation concerns of soldiers as he handed out bacon and sausage rolls to their families. William showed his interest in the welfare of the men and ...

A Berwickshire bakery business has appealed for help in tracing a ‘Ninja-style’ thief who helped himself to a seaside parasol.