A €1,000-a-night villa in Ibiza, a beautiful and flirtatious Russian woman, lashings of premium vodka and an array of hidden cameras: the set-up bore all the hallmarks of an old-school Soviet...

At least 16 people including South African tourists were injured when a bus carrying them around the site of the Pyramids near Cairo was struck by a bomb today. The attack took place near the Grand...

Australia’s jubilant Liberals have attributed their unexpected election win to a remorseless questioning of the costs of Labor’s green policies. Labor went into polling day as overwhelming...

Iran’s top leaders claimed today to be winning a public confrontation with the United States, as Washington and its regional allies indicated they were backing down from an immediate threat of war...

Austria’s conservative chancellor was struggling to build a caretaker cabinet this evening in the face of street protests and a growing “banana republic” scandal that has brought down his government.

There is Led Zeppelin and the Velvet Underground for one demographic, Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee for another and even Liam Gallagher for those that were there but just cannot remember the 1990s.

The aviation watchdog is preparing to crack down on airlines that charge up to £160 to change a name on a ticket amid warnings that too many passengers are being stung by hidden costs. The Civil...

Millions of plastic pots, tubs and trays placed in recycling bins are secretly being incinerated because of a lack of specialist facilities to process them. The plastic is collected from homes but...

Cabinet divisions were reignited in public today as the Brexit secretary called for plans for a no-deal departure to be ramped up. Steve Barclay said that MPs should “face facts” and accept that...

Free movement of people between Britain and the EU could continue after Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn has said. In a relaxation of the party’s position that freedom of movement would end, the Labour leader...

A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling top secret information to China. Kevin Patrick Mallory, 62, had faced life in prison or even the death penalty after being...

A high-school American football coach wrestled a student to the ground after he burst into class brandishing a shotgun. The suspect, wearing a black trench-coat, appeared in the doorway of a...

The birth certificate of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor has revealed that he was born in the Portland Hospital in Westminster. It had been reported that the Duchess of Sussex, whose occupation...

★★★★★ At around 30 minutes into this film my legs started to twitch. I thought about walking out. I wrote in my notes, “I can’t take this.” Not because it was vile or needlessly offensive (I walked...

The idea that some of us are dog people, inexorably drawn to canine companions, has been bolstered by science. A study involving 35,035 pairs of twins in Sweden suggests that whether we choose to...

‘Sexism? Women in the workplace today have it easy,” says Steve Shirley, young eyes twinkling from a cheerful 85-year-old face. What man would dare to say such a thing – even with “and so they...

It’s a grey day in Berlin and 500 or so of the world’s pre-eminent ageing scientists and longevity enthusiasts (that is, wealthy people hoping for a few more years to spend it) are gathering to...

‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” Not the kindest, not the most loyal, not the most courageous or the most determined; just who is the prettiest? Western culture has been...

A hospital has become the first in Britain to perform keyhole surgery for spina bifida on a baby in the womb. The procedure, carried out at King’s College Hospital in London, will not cure the...

More than 70 school sixth forms have shut in the past three years or face closure, leaving teenagers with fewer subject choices and further to travel to study for their A levels. Figures obtained...

OK. Deep breaths. We can pick ourselves up now. If there is one thing we are well practised at by now it is the fail, repeat, fail, repeat cycle. It’s a common side-effect of IVF treatment. Any...

We’re about to launch ourselves off a limestone ledge into the river below. “Are we seriously doing this?” asks my nine-year-old daughter incredulously. It’s a fair question. It may be spring, but...

Last year Timothy Spall was in Manchester with Vanessa Redgrave making a film about the painter LS Lowry. Lowry famously painted matchstick men and women, living in the industrial North West during...

With their penchant for colourful outfits and frothy pop, no Eurovision entrant has ever predicted that “debauchery unconstrained” will lead to a morally bankrupt dystopia and the collapse of Europe.