CHILE’S far-right politician Jose Antonio Kast was sworn in as president today, marking the Latin American nation’s most ...

THE US and Israel continued to pound Iran with air strikes today as the Islamic Republic attacked commercial ships and targeted Dubai International Airport.The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said ...

HEREDITARY peers started to shuffle into political history after the Lords finally accepted the government’s decision to ...

TO MARK International Women’s Day last week, Labour Women’s Declaration (LWD) hosted a reflective event in Edinburgh on the ...

IN 2008, a group of palliative care researchers noted that demographic trends such as the “baby boomer” generation and ...

A SERIES of explosions attributed to drones killed at least one person as the attack rocked downtown Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a spokesperson for the M23 rebel group and local ...

FRANCE: The International Energy Agency (IEA) agreed today to release the largest volume of emergency oil reserves in its history, in a bid to counter the effects of the war in the Middle East. The ...

JAPAN marked the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its north-east coast today.The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 2011 caused more than 22,000 deaths ...

ANGRY MPs demanded the clique controlling the Labour Party be cleared out today as further details of disgraced Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington were made public. These ...

A SPANISH football fan accidentally swapped an evening of Champions League football in Newcastle for a League One clash in Exeter, following a stadium mix-up. Having planned to watch Barcelona’s ...

NHS staff are avoiding eye contact with patients because they are “embarrassed” about how they are being treated in A&E departments, MPs heard today. It comes as a new poll by the Royal College of ...

THE Russian national anthem rang again at the Paralympics today, a day after Germany athletes appeared to stage a protest in the podium ceremony at Milan Cortina. Ivan Golubkov won Russia’s third gold ...