The man, who is barefoot and holds a Palestine flag, has been spoken to by negotiators several times but at 10.30pm had not yet agreed to come down.

The clashes, which erupted on Thursday, marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government in Damascus.

The winning numbers for Saturday’s National Lottery Lotto draw were 01, 19, 29, 33, 42 and 44, and the bonus number was 21.

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden has said that ‘the state is not match-fit to rise to the moment our country faces’.

This year’s Commonwealth Day theme is Together We Thrive, which celebrates the ‘enduring spirit of the Commonwealth family’.

Double gold Paralympic athlete Richard Whitehead has completed the original London marathon route to support grassroots running during a year-long challenge. The Paralympian, who runs with prosthetic ...

A 61-year-old man remains missing after being swept away in a flooded river near the town of Dorrigo in New South Wales, and a woman sustained minor injuries when an apartment building lost its roof ...

Negotiators are continuing to appeal to a man who is several metres up the clock tower of Big Ben to come down as darkness falls. The man, who scaled the tower at around 7.20am on Saturday and is ...

Kim Jong Un reportedly visited major shipyards in the North in what experts have said marks a threat to the US.

A Vatican statement said doctors decided to keep Francis’s prognosis guarded, meaning he is not out of danger.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the alleged gang rape of an Israeli and a local woman in southern India. The Israeli and her homestay operator were stargazing with three male travellers, ...

Barclays says its services are “back up and running”, after fixing an outage which prevented customers from accessing their online bank accounts on Saturday.