Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has renewed a pledge to build up his country’s military and deepen its alliance with the United States under President-elect Donald Trump.

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Hurricane Rafael weakened into a tropical storm Friday as it swirled through the Gulf of Mexico where it was expected to break apart after ploughing through Cuba. The storm knocked out the island’s ...

A powerful bombing at a railway station in south western Pakistan killed 17 people and wounded 30 others, police and government officials said. Mohammad Baloch, a senior police officer, said a bomb ...

A police marksman who shot a man wrongly suspected of being a terrorist after the 7/7 London bombings said he was certain “we were going to die” if he did not act. Jean Charles de Menezes was killed a ...

It is understood Transport for London has told the Aslef union it will set out an initial proposal on an average four-day working week in January.

Spurs have only won two trophies during the past three decades and chairman Daniel Levy was criticised in former captain Hugo ...

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Ireland, who were beaten by the Kiwis in the quarter-finals of last year’s World Cup in France, conceded 13 penalties across the course of a stop-start affair and were unable to build on a 13-9 lead ...

The fallout from the US presidential election continues to dominate the headlines in Saturday’s newspapers. The Times focuses on charges brought against three people over an alleged Iranian plot to ...

Firefighters and police officers are among the first recipients of the award, the civilian equivalent of the Elizabeth Cross.

The fathers of two murdered police officers said it was “vitally important” to honour public servants killed in the line of duty after they became the first recipients of a new award. Bryn Hughes and ...