LEBANESE interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati asked Iran today to help secure a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah, appearing to urge Tehran to convince the militant group to accept a ...

ECONOMIC growth slowed in the first three months of the new Labour government, according to figures published today. Statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the economy grew ...

Hydrafeed, based in Milton Keynes, manufactures high-tech machine tools used by Instro Precision in Kent, which is part of Israeli-owned Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems has five factories in Britain and ...

HUNDREDS of healthcare support workers at hospitals in south-east Wales have voted to strike over pay. Unison said staff at ...

AN animal welfare charity that helped get fox hunting banned is calling for tighter regulations on the law’s 20th anniversary ...

US President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jnr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

LABOUR was urged to provide long-term public funding for higher education yesterday after the sector’s regulator warned that ...

BRAZIL has opened a social summit in the run-up to next week’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting of top economies, the first such ...

WORKERS at Canada’s national postal service went on strike today after union and management negotiators failed to reach agreement on demands for fair wages, safer working conditions and other ...

NORTH KOREA has tested exploding drones designed to crash into targets, with national leader Kim Jong Un calling for mass production of the weapons to be accelerated, officia media reported today.

THE party of Sri Lanka’s new Marxist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won a two-thirds majority in parliament, official election results showed today, providing a strong mandate for his ...

SOUTH Africa’s government is refusing to help a group of illegal miners occupying a closed mine who have been denied access ...