The captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned as cruel and disrespectful.

The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope on Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a ...

Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov and Eliya Cohen were brought out by masked, armed Hamas fighters to pose on a stage.

Thieves in France used a stolen bank card to buy a winning lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros (£414,000). But they vanished before cashing in – and now they are among the country’s most famous ...

On this day February22 in 1966, Roderic Norman Coote was officially appointed as the new Bishop of Colchester during an investiture ceremony at Lambeth Palace, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The M25 anticlockwise exit slip at Junction 27 (Stansted/M11) remains closed due to a police incident, with all lanes currently shut.

Police said ‘new information’ led them to arrest two men and a woman on suspicion of murdering Robert Scott Clive who disappeared in ...

The United States has proposed a draft United Nations resolution that stops far short of a competing European-backed ...

Darryl Bedford, 55, from Fulham in west London, creates paper art, which he calls drawstring origami, using a combination of ...

The man accused of fatally shooting the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare in New York City and leading authorities on a ...

Hassan Nasrallah was killed on September 27 when Israel’s air force dropped more than 80 bombs on Hezbollah’s main operations ...