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A woman has been ordered by a sheriff to pay a private parking company £24,500 in unpaid charges. Carly Mackie...

An explosion has hit an underground station in the city of St Petersburg, Russian media report. The Tass and Interfax...

The Dalai Lama has come face to face with an Indian soldier who guarded him almost 60 years ago as...

Former health secretary Alex Neil has said a separate "health tax" should be introduced in Scotland to pay for essential...

Explosion in a St Petersburg metro station, casualties reported - Russian media This breaking news story is being updated and...

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has fallen sharply in recent years Somali pirates have hijacked an Indian cargo ship...

Worries over the health of South Africa's economy continued on Monday, as comments by the new finance minister failed to...

Sunderland boss David Moyes says he "deeply regrets" telling a BBC reporter she might "get a slap". After a draw...

A row has erupted over Ecuador's presidential elections after early results indicate a victory for the incumbent party's candidate. With...

Worries over the health of South Africa's economy continued on Monday, as comments by the new finance minister failed to...

Colombia's Farc rebel group has offered to help rebuild a town devastated by landslides that killed at least 254 people....

Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does...

Spanish foreign minister Alfonso Dastis has said his government had been "surprised by the tone of comments coming out of...

For decades, United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accused of sexual exploitation and abuse have operated under an umbrella of impunity. Last...

The electric car maker said that was a 70% rise on the same period of 2016. In a record quarter,...

Energy giant Ineos has struck a deal to acquire the Forties Pipeline System in the North Sea from BP for...

Some Jewish parents in Umea were said to be too scared to send their children to school A Jewish community...

Five people have been charged over an attack on a teenage asylum seeker in south London, police say. The Kurdish-Iranian...

A sleepy district in Hebei province has suddenly become the centre of China's latest property craze and the talk of...

The eurozone's unemployment rate has continued to fall, dropping to a near eight-year low in February. Figures from the Eurostat...