On a small island off Japan’s north-eastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats.

Millions of Indians were voting on Saturday in the next-to-last round of a gruelling national election with a combined ...

An emergency convoy is delivering food, water and other provisions to survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, with scores of people feared ...

Egypt has agreed to send United Nations humanitarian aid trucks through Israel’s main crossing into Gaza, but it remains unclear if they will be able to enter the territory as fighting rages in the ...

The Met Office has issued a yellow thunderstorm warning which lasts from midday on Sunday until the evening, covering large swathes of England and northern Wales. As much as 20mm to 30mm could fall ...

Rishi Sunak has said he avoided catching pneumonia after getting wet while speaking outside 10 Downing Street but admitted to constituents he was not sure what state his suit was in. The Prime ...

A minister has dismissed suggestions that Rishi Sunak is “taking the day off” as the Prime Minister campaigned in his constituency on Saturday morning. Mr Sunak met local veterans in Yorkshire at the ...

Fern Britton has revealed she is in talks to return to This Morning after previously presenting alongside Phillip Schofield from 1999 to 2009. The 66-year-old star recently appeared on the sofa as a ...

The International Court of Justice ruling will increase the pressure on the Israeli government, but it is unlikely to comply ...

The most comprehensive victory in the latest round of Conference Premiership matches in the North West Cricket League came from Read when they visited Cherry Tree at Preston Old Road. Losing the toss, ...

Police have charged a 75-year-old man in connection with the death of a former estate worker in Perthshire. Brian Low, 65, was found dead on a remote track in Pitilie near Aberfeldy around 8.30am on ...

The Tories and Labour will fight over the economy as Sir Keir Starmer centres Saturday’s campaign on the cost-of-living crisis while the Conservatives hint at tax breaks for high earners. The ...