US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Chris Wright, a campaign donor and fossil fuel executive, to serve as energy secretary in his upcoming, second administration.

Further sanctions against Moscow will be discussed when Takeshi Iwaya meets his Ukrainian foreign ministry counterpart.

Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is ...

A woman found dead in the boot of a car in east London has been named by Northamptonshire Police. Detectives believe that Harshita Brella, 24, of Corby, was attacked by someone she knew. A murder ...

In their final meeting, China’s leader Xi Jinping told US President Joe Biden that “China is ready to work with a new administration,” as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take over. The two ...

The Met Office, which has issued weather warnings for snow and ice for parts of the country from Sunday to Tuesday, has urged people to get their “woolly jumpers at the ready!” as “temperatures are ...

Lord Blunkett is calling for action on “death trap” tube platforms after he was injured falling into the gap at Westminster station. The Labour peer, who is blind, called on Transport for London to do ...

Israeli troops captured a strategic hill in the southern Lebanese village of Chamaa, the National News Agency said.

Ten newborn babies have been killed after a fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, ...

Engineers are creating decoys which will be used to mask attacks using devastating thermobaric warheads, journalists found.

An Israeli airstrike on Saturday evening on a UN-run school sheltering displaced people killed 10 and wounded 20, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. It said two missiles were fired at the Abu ...

Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern city of Yixing on Saturday night, local police said. The attack occurred at the Wuxi ...