The Georgia Democrat and 39th president was born on October 1 1924 in Plains, where he has lived more than 80 of his 100 years.

The strike action is affecting 36 ports and is the first by the International Longshoremen’s Association since 1977.

Victoria Lupton has been in Lebanon with her husband and two-year-old daughter since September 17 and has a flight out booked for Wednesday.

Tory leadership hopeful James Cleverly has said he supports Israel’s military incursion into Lebanon. The former foreign secretary said that Israel has “the right to defend itself” but that his ...

Following recent heavy rainfall river levels are continuing to rise on the Middle Dorset Stour, Lower Dorset Stour and the Lower Dorset Frome. Flood warnings have been issued for Hammoon, Bere Marsh, ...

The expansion of medical associate roles is causing ‘an increasing amount of disquiet’, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges said.

Japan’s parliament has formally elected Shigeru Ishiba, head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, as the country’s new prime minister. Mr Ishiba was chosen as the party’s leader on Friday to ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spoken in public for the first time since being released from prison after he struck a deal with the United States. He travelled from Australia to Strasbourg to ...

The struggling brand said it believes the possible offer from Frasers fails to ‘recognise the company’s substantial future potential value’.

Musical theatre veteran Gavin Creel, who won a Tony Award for Hello, Dolly! and an Olivier Award for The Book Of Mormon, has been remembered by stars of the stage following his death from cancer aged ...

It will leave around 100 trees untouched, including oaks, sycamore and Scots pine on the 300-metre-long section of the C13 Dinah’s Hollow at Melbury Abbas, south of Shaftesbury.

The Foreign Secretary reiterated calls for Britons in Lebanon to leave as he said the Government will do ‘all that we can’ to assist.