A major emergency operation is underway in Washington DC after an American Airlines flight collided in mid-air with a military helicopter. BBC Verify's Nick Eardley has been taking a closer look at ...

But Mexico argues the U.S. cannot legally change the Gulf's name because the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea dictates that an individual country's sovereign territory only extends up ...

A Burnley fan has been banned from football matches after racially abusing a Blackburn Rovers player at the East Lancashire derby. Neil Jeffrey was heard shouting a racist slur towards striker Makhtar ...

A collection of items relating to his military service was discovered after his death, including two wing badges of the Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force (SAARF). The wing badges are a rare ...

If approved by the Senate, Gabbard will oversee US intelligence agencies like the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA).

US officials say they do not expect any survivors from the crash, and that at least 28 bodies have been recovered from scene. The plane was carrying 64 passengers and crew when it collided in mid-air ...

Police in Leicestershire have warned people to be on their guard following several reports of so-called courier fraud. The ...

A man died four days after being rescued from a fire, Jersey's Fire and Rescue Service has said. George Michael Monte De Ramos Castrudes, 37, died on 23 January after he was rescued from a property in ...

A 50-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering his son's 30-year-old partner. Sophie Evans' body was found lying face down and naked on the kitchen floor of a house in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, ...

A murderer and domestic abuser who tried to decapitate his partner after stabbing her dozens of times has been jailed for at ...

Taxing overnight stays in Cardiff could help cover the cost of hosting big concerts and sports matches, the leader of the city council has said. Huw Thomas said hotels in the capital thought a tax was ...

Up to 21 additional special educational needs and disabilities (Send) places will be created at an infant school in Surrey, according to plans approved by the county council.