A Metropolitan Police tutor has been dismissed after he bit a female student officer on the neck and touched her thigh at a public work gathering.

Hurricane Erick has formed in the Pacific Ocean on a forecast track to bring heavy rain, strong winds, storm surge and possible mudslides to southern coastal Mexico, the US National Hurricane Centre ...

A person has died in Yorkshire from rabies after becoming infected while on holiday in Morocco, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said. The person, which the Barnsley Chronicle reports is a ...

Kate Phillips has been announced as the permanent chief content officer of the BBC, after she had been performing the role on an interim basis after predecessor Charlotte Moore announced she was ...

Coventry Crown Court heard the 15-year-old, who cannot be named, is now likely to face a jury in February next year.

Russia poses a direct threat to the European Union through acts of sabotage and cyber attacks, but its massive military spending suggests that President Vladimir Putin also plans to use his armed ...

A senior union leader has urged the Government to do more to show it values public services and the workers who deliver them. Christina McAnea, general secretary of Unison, told her union’s annual ...

A British man shot dead alongside two friends while travelling in Mexico was “tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time”, his inquest has heard. Ben Marshall Corser, 36, from St Just in Cornwall ...

Iran’s supreme leader has rejected US calls for surrender in the face of Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them, in an ...

A rapist who preyed on a 15-year-old girl after following her in a town centre has been jailed for nine years. Sadeq Nikzad, 29, targeted the schoolgirl after spotting her walking down a town centre ...

Around 170 patients have suffered harm as a result of a cyber attack on blood services at London hospitals and GP surgeries, reports suggest. Pathology services provider Synnovis was the victim of a ...

Speedy Hire has cautioned over “challenging” conditions due to Government spending delays, after shutting eight depots in the face of heightened cost pressures. Shares in the equipment hire firm ...