The United States launched the Nagasaki attack on August 9 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima that killed 140,000. Japan surrendered on August 15 ...

A FORTHCOMING Freckfest gig at Irvine's Harbour Arts Centre has been rescheduled. The Countess of Fife, featuring Rezillos singer Fay Fife, had been due to appear at the HAC in September. The ...

The fire is burning just south of Lake Piru, a reservoir in the Los Padres National Forest. It is close by Lake Castaic, a ...

“On Friday at around lunchtime, there was a small rockfall in the Loom area (back of the Giant’s Causeway) in Port Noffer,” ...

President Donald Trump has said he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15 in Alaska. Mr Trump announced the meeting in a post on social meeting and said more details would follow ...

More than two hundred people were protesting outside the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf on Friday evening, with rival groups separated by police.

Other major events including the Community Shield match between Liverpool and Crystal Palace at Wembley are also taking place in London.

UNION chiefs have warned problems at NHS Ayrshire and Arran will not be solved by a change of chief executive. Unison spoke out after last week’s announcement that NHS Ayrshire and Arran chief ...

The vice-president confirmed Washington had ‘no plans’ to recognise Palestine, which Britain has pledged to do unless Israel agrees to ...

Ukrainian forces are locked in intense battles along the 620-mile front line from north-east to south-east Ukraine.

The warning, issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), covers London, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, East of England, the South East and South West, and will be in place from 12pm on ...

TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has provided insight into farming life and warned that this year’s harvest “will be catastrophic”. It comes after the former Top Gear star, 65, said bovine tuberculosis ...