Defence ministry troops carried out executions and other violations against both civilians and Druze fighters prior to agreeing to a ceasefire, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ...

Sir Keir Starmer has accelerated plans to lower the voting age to 16 in all UK elections after a surge in the popularity of ...

Women should be prosecuted for having sex with monks, Thai politicians have proposed, amid a nationwide scandal over an alleged “blackmailing seductress”. The proposal has been condemned as ...

Michelle and Barack insist they’re still together – but their quieter, separate lives have left space for ongoing speculation ...

As fresh details of the controversy emerged on Thursday, free speech campaigners said the use of the courts to prevent the ...

Thousands of people hit by ‘kill list’ data breach have instructed lawyers in case that could cost taxpayers £250m ...

A schoolboy posed with weapons in photos before he stabbed a fellow pupil to death, a court heard. The 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose, ...

Decision by Sir Keir Starmer to lower voting age to 16 could dent Nigel Farage’s chances of becoming next prime minister ...

The US could scrap warnings on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in a major shake-up of the treatment for menopause. The Food ...

A nurse who confronted a transgender doctor using a female changing room behaved in an “unacceptable way” because she asked ...

Scottish ministers have been urged to rethink restrictions on controlled burning on moorland after a report disclosed recent ...

Donald Trump is suffering from a chronic vein condition which causes swollen ankles, the White House has revealed. Photographs of the US president’s enlarged ankles at the Fifa World Club Cup on ...