IT was four minutes to four on February 4, 1944. "I saw a flame, shaped like a big bat's wing, come from the loading area – it must have been 50 or 60 yards across, " recalled the chief goods clerk ...

The United States is expected to announce that it will send 1.25 billion dollars (£1 billion) in military assistance to Ukraine, US officials said on Friday, as the Biden administration pushes to get ...

An Italian journalist who was reporting in Tehran has been detained by the Iranian police, Italy’s foreign ministry said on Friday.

Brazil’s navy said on Friday that the body of a woman was found six kilometres from the Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira Bridge.

Firms in Newton Aycliffe, Middlesbrough and Newcastle have been named and shamed by HMRC for almost £1.2m worth of unpaid tax between them.

The designation of Bidzina Ivanishvili is the latest in a series of sanctions the US has placed on Georgian politicians and others this year.

A man suspected of a Christmas Eve assault is among those who found themselves at Teesside Crown Court on Boxing Day.

His remarks came after Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch accused Mr Farage of “fakery” in response to Reform claiming they had surpassed the Tories in signed-up members. Mrs Badenoch said Reform ...

A veteran councillor says the public are entitled to know what led to a blunder causing a major sewage spill onto a beach and requiring repair work costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. Almost two ...

Darlington Indian restaurant Babul's opened its doors for those in need on Christmas Day for the eighth year in a row.

Kirk Marsden, from Blackburn, suffered multiple serious injuries after being hit by a Toyota Land Cruiser, police said.

Three were arrested and two have been charged following a 'stabbing' on Hilda Terrace in Chester-le-Street on Christmas Day.