A massive mudslide early on Monday killed seven volunteers as they repaired a drainage channel damaged by flash floods in northern Pakistan, officials said, and left three others injured.

The now-suspended councillor had been told by the Labour Party to stay away from the protest, but turned up anyway, jurors heard.

The former Scottish first minister made the comments in a TV interview ahead of her memoir being released this week.

Representatives of 184 countries and 600 organisations are meeting in Geneva to draft a treaty on halting plastic pollution.

The jury in the trial of Aimee Betro, who denies conspiracy to murder, possessing a self-loading pistol and a charge of fraudulently evading the prohibition on importing ammunition, first retired to ...

Police say no one was hurt in the blaze at the disused Raven Hotel, which was given listed status in the 1950s.

Two elderly residents at Highcliffe Care Home, Witherwack, Sunderland, died following the crash which happened last month.