Two men have been jailed after attempting to smuggle up to £1.5 million of cannabis into the UK inside crates of watermelons in a lorry. Prosecutors said Scott McSeveney, 37, masterminded the plan to ...

A prolific mobile phone thief who was caught with a blind woman’s stolen device during a morning crime spree has been jailed – after being taken down by a ceremonial Beadle. Oliver Brady, 27, of ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) has said its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly eight-week blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in ...

The Government “is not for bending” on net zero, Ed Miliband has said as he urged opponents of the policy to “bring on the fight”. Speaking at the end of an international energy security summit in ...

The Dean of Westminster has said stories are being told to “deepen our divisions” in his Anzac Day address but suggested the sacrifices of First World War soldiers were tales “that unite and do not ...

Some 43 migrants with no legal right to stay in the UK have been returned to Nigeria and Ghana, the Home Office said. A charter flight included 15 refused asylum seekers, 11 foreign criminals who had ...

Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani has raised his country’s new flag at the UN headquarters in New York. Mr al-Shibani will attend a UN Security Council briefing, the first public appearance by ...