The Cuban government has announced emergency measures to slash electricity demand, including suspending classes, shutting down some state-owned workplaces and cancelling nonessential services.

Police said officers attended a call in Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, from the Wales Ambulance Service Trust concerning the welfare of a baby on Friday.

Vigils for One Direction singer Liam Payne have continued over the weekend after his death in fall from a hotel room balcony in Argentina. There was a gathering of Directioners, the name given to ...

A teenager has appeared in court accused of murdering a young father who died after he was assaulted in a street in Essex. Kieran Shepherd, 30, died in Meadgate Avenue, Chelmsford, at around midday on ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes paused his concert to pay tribute to the late One Direction singer Liam Payne. Payne died aged 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel ...

Philip G Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment which was intended to examine the psychological experiences of imprisonment, has died at the age of 91. Stanford ...

Sunday’s Great South Run has been cancelled because of high winds and rain expected from Storm Ashley, organisers have said. Great Run, which organises the annual 10-mile race in Portsmouth, Hampshire ...

A remembrance service has been held to pay tribute to Sir John Campbell, who died at the aged 90 on September 10.

The former boss of Stirling Council has been appointed as the SNP’s interim chief executive after the resignation of Murray Foote. Carol Beattie was appointed interim chief executive by the party’s ...

RESIDENTS are up in arms about a plan to site 80 containers at an industrial estate in Peebles. The proposal, on unused former grazing land at South Parks, has attracted tens of objections, including ...

Liam Payne’s sister, Ruth Gibbins, says she does not feel “this world was good enough or kind enough” to him in a heartfelt tribute to her late brother. In a statement posted on Instagram on Saturday, ...

A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel has hit a herd of wild elephants in north-east Sri Lanka, killing two and ...