ISABELLA BROWN held her nerve to win England’s second weightlifting medal of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games with silver in the women’s -77kg category today.Brown missed both her opening lifts of 77kg ...

GREAT YARMOUTH bin and street cleaning workers will begin strike action next month over pay, Unite announced yesterday.The Norfolk seaside town faces a “summer of rubbish” as some 100 Great Yarmouth ...

THE demand for Diane Abbott’s reinstatement in the Parliamentary Labour Party has been backed by more than 35,000 people.They have signed a petition urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham and new chief ...

TOKYO’S growing involvement in South China Sea affairs is driven more by Washington’s “Indo-Pacific” strategy than by Japan’s own security interests, according to leading experts.Ukeru Magosaki, ...

INDIAN authorities were foiled in their attempt to raid the offices of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday.Delhi police attempted to enter the offices to arrest Aishe Ghosh, the former ...

SCOTTISH Greens have called on Prime Minister Andy Burnham to listen to science and block drilling on the Rosebank oil and gas field.The party’s demands came ahead of a consultation on the grant of a ...

JAPAN: Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors today after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people ...

UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky met his US counterpart Donald Trump on Tuesday ahead of late senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral to discuss his country’s ongoing war with Russia.In a social media ...

CHARLEY HULL admits she must win a major to consider herself a rival to Nelly Korda.The world number seven has finished runner-up five times in golf’s biggest tournaments and is hoping to go one ...

FIRE crews battled a mega-fire four times the size of Paris in south-west France while facing tinderbox temperatures set to climb above 40°C today.The heat wave and forecast winds could hamper ...

IRAN launched a barrage of missiles at United States forces in the Middle East early this morning as the US partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike militias in neighbouring Iraq, killing at least 20 ...

PRIME MINISTER Andy Burnham has said “football does not belong to investors” as he joined the criticism of Fifa’s plan to set up a new private company to run the World Cup and other competitions.On ...