Hindus believe bathing at the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers will cleanse them of their sins.

Peers have warned the UK risks failing behind rivals if it does not do more to innovate in the engineering biology sector.

Officials warned that ‘all options are on the table’ for Manila’s response, including new international lawsuits.

Two women have been charged with criminal damage after chalk paint was sprayed on Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey. The words “1.5 is dead” were written in orange on the 19th century ...

More than 100 illegal miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein.

A man has been found guilty of sending indecent images and sexual messages via Snapchat to an under-age girl in Muirkirk as well ...

The triple lock guarantees an increase in pensions in line with average earnings, inflation or 2.5, whichever is highest.

Two strikes in Deir al-Balah killed two women and their four children, and another 12 people were killed in two strikes in Khan Younis.

Rachel Reeves will move to reassure turbulent markets amid high Government borrowing costs as she faces a grilling from MPs on Tuesday.

Some 120 projects trialling how AI could help small businesses be more productive have been launched by the Government in its first wave of initiatives to use the technology to boost the economy.

Chief executive Murray Auchincloss is ‘recovering well’ and will be back in the office by February, the group said.

Newly declassified files show the actor’s name was on a list of ‘practising British homosexuals’ passed to the Russians.