Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and reduced other inmates’ sentences as part of a mass ...

Six days of funeral observances for Jimmy Carter are due to begin in Georgia, where the former US president died on December 29 at the age of 100. The first events reflect Mr Carter’s climb up the ...

Police confirmed they were supporting the family of Edward Pettifer, 31, of Chelsea, who was killed in the attack in Bourbon Street.

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died aged 116, officials said. Ms Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo ...

Happy Valley, starring James Norton, has won awards including a BAFTA. Catherine Cawood’s (Sarah Lancashire) final kitchen showdown with James Norton’s Tommy Lee Royce in the series also won the P&O ...

A fire that broke out at a shopping centre in Dallas has killed more than 500 animals, most of which were small birds, authorities said. The 579 animals in the pet shop at Plaza Latina in the ...

A man has been jailed for life after he killed a “timid, fun-loving man” with a single punch from behind outside a pub in ...