An NHS helpline to help people struggling with stress has been launched by the government.People worried about debt or unempl...

Mexico City has passed Latin America's first law legalising gay marriage, in a sign of increasingly liberal attitudes towards...

A judge in Argentina has ordered the heirs to a powerful media empire to take DNA tests to establish whether they are the vic...

Gordon Brown will warn voters not to let the opposition parties "wreck the recovery", in his new year message.The prime minis...

A strike vote at one of the biggest copper mines in the world is causing fears over global supplies.Thousands of miners, at C...

President Barack Obama says an attempted attack, on a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, points to a "totally unaccept...

Officers tried to revive a four-year-old girl who was shot in a house in Hampshire but were unable to, police have said.Det I...

The nephew of Iran's opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi was threatened days before he was killed in Sunday's protests, a p...

Snowfall is causing travel disruption across parts of the UK, with more heavy showers forecast.Extreme weather warnings have ...

China's decision to ignore Britain's calls for clemency and execute Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling has strained relations be...