Taiwan will not provoke a confrontation with China, the self-ruled island’s vice president has said, lamenting Beijing’s “aggressive military posturing” against the island democracy that China claims ...

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Veolia said it has started legal action against Unite and its general Sharon Graham, claiming defamation. The company said the move followed months of protests and “smear campaigns” by the union and ...

Essex Library Service has partnered with Fonetti, an app which uses automatic speech recognition to help children read aloud.

About £7 million worth of damage was caused to the aircraft at RAF Brize Norton in an incident alleged to have a ‘terrorist connection’.

Music mogul Simon Cowell is to search for the next big boyband in a new Netflix docuseries. The man behind the success of One Direction stars in Simon Cowell: The Next Act, which sees him hold open ...

Customers at Lidl, Asda, TK Maxx, Matalan and Amazon have been warned to stop using some products sold at the stores because of potential health risks. The Office for Product Safety and Standards ...

One child has died and 21 staff members and pupils from Minehead Middle School were injured after a school coach left the A396 in Somerset.

Are we there yet? Parents ‘snap up items to keep children occupied on journeys’ as summer holidays stretch ahead ...

The former England captain has been disqualified from getting behind the wheel for 12 months and ordered to pay a total of £7,085.

All 29 military and intelligence personnel on board RAF Chinook ZD576 were killed when the aircraft crashed in foggy weather on June 2, 1994.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander made the claim ahead of c2c becoming the second operator to be nationalised by the Labour Government on Sunday.