WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will withdraw about 4,000 troops from Iraq by the end of October, the U.S. military commander in Iraq said in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing on Wednesday. In his assessment of the war, General …
Politicians are calling for an inquiry into a level crossing crash that has killed three people. An Inverness to Wick train hit a car at Halkirk in Caithness. The three victims are believed to have been in the car. No-one on board the train was …
Fertility clinics are for the first time to be rated on their likely chance of delivering a baby. The information, to be included on a revamped website, marks a departure from “historical” guidance which experts say is unreliable. Previously the …
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday. A Pacific-wide tsunami …
Towering tsunami waves spawned by a powerful earthquake have swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages and killing at least 34 people. Cars and people were swept out to sea by the fast-churning waters as survivors fled to high …
The Sun newspaper has endorsed the Conservatives to win the next election. The influential paper has published a front page headline claiming “Labour’s lost it”. Rupert Murdoch’s paper had backed the Labour party since 1997 when it switched from its …
The flood-devastated Philippines was braced for a new tropical storm, as the death toll from waters that submerged the homes of more than two million rose to 246. Flood victims trudged through ankle-deep sludge to crowded relief centres amid news …
DANANG, Vietnam (Reuters) - The biggest floods in decades threatened Vietnam’s central provinces on Wednesday following a powerful typhoon that swept into the country after wreaking havoc in the Philippines. The government said 38 people had died and …
Advertising spending on the internet has overtaken television expenditure in the UK for the first time, according to a new report. A record £1.75 billion - nearly a quarter of the total ad market - was spent online in the first half of this year …
Gordon Brown’s bid to launch Labour’s political fightback with a policy-rich rallying conference speech hit an immediate setback with The Sun now declaring its support for the Tories. Despite the Prime Minister setting out an ambitious raft of …
