British Steel has won a multimillion-pound contract to supply rail for a new high-speed electric railway in Turkey. The manufacturer will deliver tens of thousands of tonnes of track for the project ...

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Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders is on the verge of brokering a four-party coalition in the Netherlands six months after coming in first in national elections. It opens the prospect that yet ...

During a two-hour keynote event to open its annual I/O developer conference – and where the phrase “AI” was mentioned more ...

The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than one billion dollars (£794 million) in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said on Tuesday.

The King has become patron of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), following in the footsteps of his mother Queen ...

Indonesian authorities have seeded clouds, trying to prevent further rain and flash floods after deluges that hit the country’s Sumatra Island over the weekend left at least 58 people dead and another ...

US secretary of state Antony Blinken has sought to rally the spirits of Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive, ...

Women infected with hepatitis C after being given infected blood during childbirth have described how they were “fobbed off” ...

Donald Trump, the first former US president to go on trial, was joined at the courthouse by an entourage of legislators ...

A baby girl who weighed just over 1lb when she was born prematurely in November has beaten the odds and gone home with her ...

Renewed demonstrations have rocked Georgia for weeks, but legislators passed the bill which critics have dubbed ‘the Russian ...