Sir Mick Jagger has said he is “so sad” at the death of Cleo Sylvestre, “the first female vocalist to sing with the Stones”. Sylvestre, also known as Cleopatra Palmer, who had been a feature of film, ...

Sri Lankans began voting on Saturday in a presidential election that will determine the course of the country’s recovery from ...

A lost cat has been reunited with his owners after an incredible 900-mile journey across the US. Rayne Beau — pronounced “rainbow” — made it home to California two months after getting lost in ...

Heavy rain has triggered landslides and led swollen rivers to overflow in a region of Japan still recovering from a deadly earthquake earlier this year. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the ...

The Met Office has warned that much of the country could be at risk of flooding in a few days as a new weather warning has been issued today ...

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said that ministers ‘don’t want people to believe that we are living very different lives from them’.

Firass Abiad told reporters that 68 people were also wounded, of whom 15 remain in hospital, in the deadliest Israeli air strike on Beirut since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The ...

A tornado has been been described as “terrifying” as it swept through Aldershot causing damage to properties and felling trees. No-one was hurt in the weather event in the Hampshire town which ...

Great Paxton Scarecrow Festival returned on September 14 and has seen locals recreate musicians including Taylor Swift – 22 hat included – and Oasis in straw form and given the names T’Haylor Swift ...

This is what time Strictly Come Dancing will air tonight (September 21) on BBC One and BBC iPlayer as BBC confirm first 15 dances and songs.

Mystery still surrounds the identity of a woman six months after her body was found in the River Mersey. Police appear to be no closer to identifying the slightly built woman, wearing a lime-green ...

The 22-year-old was arrested after the attack in central Rotterdam left one person dead and another seriously wounded.