A pensioner caught on video trying to prevent a smash and grab at a Northampton jewellery store has told how she “clobbered” the would-be robbers with her shopping.

Sixteen terror suspects who have accused British spies of complicity in their torture at Guantanamo Bay will share a multi-million payout to avert a £50million court battle. Read more:...

CNN) — Paul and Rachel Chandler, the British couple held hostage by more than a year by pirates, learned after being freed this weekend that Paul Chandler’s father died in July, they said in a statement Monday.

(CNN) — Britain’s Prince William attended a remembrance service Sunday in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province to honor British and Commonwealth war dead, his press office said in a statement.

The British couple freed in Somalia 13 months after being kidnapped by pirates are preparing to fly home to the UK. Paul, 60, and Rachel Chandler, 56, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, enjoyed their first night of freedom at the British High Commission in...

A former coach of Togo’s national football team has been suspended for three years after hosting a fake match in Bahrain earlier this month. Togo’s football federation said Tchanile Bana organised a friendly game in Riffa, which was played...

The number of reported victims of a recent mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo has grown by nearly a hundred over the last week, the United Nations said on Wednesday. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York that the world...

The founder of WikiLeaks, accused of molestation in Sweden, said Australian intelligence had warned him of plans to discredit the whistle-blower website as it prepares to release more secret U.S. files on the war in Afghanistan. Swedish authorities...

Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs. One pensioner, a cancer sufferer, told how had twice been confronted by drivers and asked to get...

Khartoum - Sudan is “alarmingly” unprepared for a January referendum on southern independence and international intervention is urgently needed to prevent a return to civil war, a coalition of NGOs warned on Wednesday. “The clock is...