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Boris Johnson made a surprise appearance at a Tory rally last night (2 July), in a last-ditch attempt to help his successor win the general election later this week.

Commuters in London are facing a morning of travel misery during rush hour, with severe delays crippling part of the Underground network.

Boris Johnson introduces Rishi Sunak at late-night Conservative Party rally in the final countdown to the general election

Hurricane Beryl is heading towards Jamaica after killing at least six people in the eastern Caribbean

Authorities say massive overcrowding, insufficient exits, and other factors contributed to a deadly stampede at a religious festival in Northern India that killed at least 121 people

The weather system is expected to a storm surge to Jamaica on Wednesday

Hurricane Beryl has broken records as the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 storm

A Malaysian court has dismissed a bid by imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak to serve his remaining corruption sentence under house arrest

A 6-month-old lion cub named Freya who was rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon has been relocated to a sanctuary in South Africa

Taiwanese fishing boat was carrying six crew members

Ukraine will not give up any territory to end the war, says Zelensky’s aide

Japan has issued its first new banknotes in two decades, yen packed with 3-D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting

New laws replace penal and criminal procedure codes developed during British colonial rule in 1800s

Temperatures could heat up next week

Hurricane Beryl is on a path to Jamaica after leaving a trail of destruction in Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines

Elections in the United Kingdom have a distinct vocabulary that draws on traditions of parliamentary democracy as well as the lexicon of U.S. politics and modern political spin

Wallen’s country songs about ice cold beers, Southern charm, and lovesick regrets routinely top the US charts. His inoffensive subjects, however, belie a career marked, or perhaps buoyed, by a string of controversies. As he prepares to…

In 2023, a court in the Netherlands made the unprecedented decision to ban a sperm donor from making any further donations after he admitted fathering more than 500 children. As a new Netflix docuseries explores the controversial case,…

The predicted ATM withdrawal total is expected to be lower than it was on December 12 2019, when the last general election was held.

Train Talk: Plan is to extend one London stopping train from Crewe to Manchester via Warrington each hour

The prime minister is warning voters of a Labour ‘supermajority’ – should they be worried?

Crush occurred when hundreds of people attempted to touch religious leader’s feet and collect soil from where he walked

Frozan Ahmadzai is one of 200,000 Afghan women who have the Taliban’s permission to work

New South Wales Police Minister Yasmin Catley says a 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing a man at a Sydney university has faced previous charges, which were dismissed by a court

Boy goes missing around 5.30pm on Tuesday after a swim near the remote Northern Territory community of Palumpa

Migrants, police, officials and analysts say President Joe Biden’s halt on asylum has caused a wait-and-see attitude among migrants who are staying in Brazil

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet Thursday for the second time in as many months as they travel to Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances

Over 1.1 million people across 21 districts of Assam state affected by floods

National Transportation Safety Board released report into fatal plane crash of former astronaut William Anders

Taiwan says China ordered Taiwan's coast guard away from interfering in the detention of a Taiwanese fishing boat and its crew off the Chinese coast in what is seen as an increasing Chinese attempt to encroach on Taiwanese territory