The military juntas of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced in January that they had decided to leave Ecowas.

Review of Mary Elliott Nelson’s stage adaptation of Frank Capra’s endearing 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life at the Barn Theatre.

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may be close to 1,000, the island’s top government official has said. Mayotte Prefect Francois-Xavier ...

The Postnatal Contraception Service has been introduced at Lister Hospital, enabling new mothers to receive contraception before leaving the maternity unit.

A first defeat in four games was bad enough but Potters Bar Town manager Max Mitchell saw very little that made him happy away to Hashtag United. At the nomads' current home at Aveley, the Scholars ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing surgery to stop a brain bleed. The 79-year-old president appeared at a press conference on Sunday ...

Police have launched a murder inquiry following the “brutal and senseless” death of a woman in Co Down. The victim, who suffered a head injury, has been named as Karen Cummings, 40. Two men have been ...

A two-year-old boy has died and four adults have been injured in a hit-and-run crash involving a stolen Porsche, West Midlands Police said. Officers were called to Dartmouth Road, Smethwick, near ...

Wildlife charity Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is asking people to sign up to the 12 Days Wild festive nature challenge this Christmas.

Albums of family snaps – some showing the ex-president posing in his underwear – were found in his former residences.

Officials in San Francisco issued the city’s first ever tornado warning while on the opposite coast New York State was hit by ...

Forecasters have issued a warning of persistent rain that could make travel conditions difficult in parts of Scotland over the next three days. The Met Office yellow warning, which covers parts of the ...