The Metropolitan Police say they are conducting a "detailed and thorough" review after facing criticism over how they dealt with allegations against Mohamed al Fayed. The force was contacted by 21 ...

Singer Zayn Malik has announced he is postponing dates on his upcoming tour after the death of his former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne. The 31-year-old posted on X on Saturday: "Given the ...

A funeral home in Poland has apologised after a corpse fell out of a hearse and into traffic. Hades Funeral Service, the company transporting the body in Stalowa Wola, southeastern Poland, blamed the ...

Detectives are investigating after a woman was allegedly raped in a playground in Canterbury. She was approached by four unknown men in Toddler's Cove playground near Whitehall Road on Friday night.

Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial "Stanford Prison Experiment" in which participants playing prison guards became abusive, has died aged 91. Stanford University announced his ...

Luca Melnicenco is the oldest man in his village. Quietly, the 90-year-old surveys the rural scene from a bench in front of his home. After about 30 minutes, a bike passes by. Nowadays, around 750 ...

A man has been arrested in Tokyo after firebombs were thrown at the headquarters of Japan's ruling party and a car crashed into the security fence around the prime minister's office. Police arrested ...

Cuba's national power grid has collapsed for a second time, leaving around 10 million people on the island without electricity once again. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said officials were giving ...

The father of a baby girl killed in the English Channel says he fought desperately to hold on to her, but she slipped from his hands as people piled on to him and into the water when their dinghy ...

Liam Payne's sister has paid an emotional tribute to her "best friend" as she spoke for the first time about his death. The singer died aged 31 on Wednesday after falling from a balcony on the third ...

Extending a freeze on income tax thresholds in the budget would not break Labour's election manifesto, government sources have suggested. The current freeze in thresholds, brought in by the previous ...