George Simion was well ahead of Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan in the election re-run with 99 of the votes counted.

Two tourist boats carrying roughly 70 people between them have capsized in the Wu river in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, leaving 14 people missing and three dead, state media said on Monday.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected the proposal to send US troops to Mexico to help thwart the illegal drug trade.

US President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island.

Former Strictly Come Dancing champion Rose Ayling-Ellis has told her younger self being deaf is “your advantage”, in a message recorded for the National Deaf Children’s Society’s Deaf Awareness Week.

His co-star Jessica Gunning came in second, while One Day actor Ambika Mod came in third on the Radio Times TV 100 list.

A Labour MP says the Professional Football Association has been ‘absolutely disgraceful’ in its response to issue.

The Scottish First Minister will unveil his government’s programme for the coming year in a keynote statement to Holyrood on Tuesday.

It said more than 600 of its 2,400 UK venues will receive investment funds to make improvements over the next year.

Low pay for workers, a reliance on unpaid family carers and high costs for those in need of care are among the issues facing the sector. In their report, published on Monday, MPs ...

People given infected blood in one of the worst treatment disasters in NHS history are “scared they won’t live to see compensation”, campaigners have said. The probe into the infected blood scandal is ...