Guatemala’s Rio Las Vacas is the most refuse-polluted river in the world, destroying the valley’s delicate ecosystem ...

Lord Mandelson enlisted the help of a former BBC boss in a desperate bid to get back into government after twice being forced ...

President George W Bush saw the Iraq war as “a crusade” to rid the world of “evil-doers” by “God’s chosen nation”, records released by the National Archives have shown. Britain’s ambassador to the US ...

A hit-and-run driver inhaled laughing gas from a balloon moments before running over and killing an elderly cyclist. Cian Byrne, 20, hit Graham Slinn, 81, at a pedestrian crossing near Todwick, South ...

US president orders publication of more than 240,000 pages of records relating to the FBI’s surveillance of the slain Nobel laureate ...

The doctors’ union is demanding £6,000 for consultants on call to cover strikes this weekend. NHS leaders accused the British ...

James Cartwright claims Samantha Mickleburgh was in debt to him before she was found dead at a Surrey hotel, court hears ...

Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, confirmed the probe would look at events surrounding the clashes between police and miners ...

Chief executive of government-sponsored trust that monitors hate crime is under fire for advising the Deputy Prime Minister ...

UK Government demands that Israel end the war immediately and says it will work alongside France towards a two-state solution ...

A bus crash in Greater Manchester has left 15 people in hospital. A major incident was declared by North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) shortly after emergency services attended the junction of Barton ...

The violence that erupted during protests has polluted Epping residents’ message – the behaviour of asylum seekers has them living in fear ...