Ministers were given one month to come up with plans to cut civil service employee numbers by 91,000.

Russia is threatening to retaliate after Finland's leaders said the country must join NATO immediately.

Collected by British scientist William Caldwell, the specimen jars helped change the course of scientific thinking and supported the theory of evolution.

Finland and Sweden’s decision to abandon the neutrality they maintained throughout the Cold War would be one of the biggest shifts in European security in decades.

Scientists say the supermassive black hole devours any matter wandering within its gargantuan gravitational pull.

Sweden is expected to follow Finland in joining NATO as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looked set to bring about the very expansion of the Western military alliance that Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to prevent.

She has ruled for 70 years, but her increasing frailty has many royal watchers speculating if the Queen may even abdicate after the big celebrations in June.

A Ukrainian boy recounts his incredible survival story after Russian soldiers shot his father dead while attempting to kill him.

Their roots were bent and gnarly, and adding water was a challenge, but edible plants have been grown in soil brought back from the moon.

The announcement comes ahead of US President Joe Biden hosting the first-ever Washington summit of leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American reporter, was shot and killed in the West Bank this week.

Ranil Wickremesinghe has been prime minister of the island nation five times before.

A leading Palestinian-American journalist has been shot dead while covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank.

A fast-moving fire in Orange County, California, has destroyed dozens of homes and ravaged 200 acres.

Sergeant Vadin Shyshimarin has been charged in the killing of an unarmed 62-year-old civilian who was gunned down while riding a bicycle in February, four days into the war.

The North’s government has shunned vaccines offered by the UN-backed COVAX distribution program, possibly because those have monitoring requirements.

The passenger, who didn’t know the plane’s location, had to fly along the coastline until he could be spotted by air traffic controllers.

A majority of Americans support abortion rights - but will this issue galvanise them to vote Democrat in November?

Lufthansa has apologised after passengers were told they couldn't board a connecting flight because they were Jewish.

Millions of displaced citizens are fleeing to western Ukraine to escape devastation around Kyiv.