A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die after she was engulfed in flames has made an initial court appearance and will remain in custody.

The family of a 15-year-old boy who died three days before Christmas Day after being in collision with a car have paid tribute to a “lovely, caring boy”. Pedestrian Ryan Marshall was involved in the ...

An Amsterdam District Court has sentenced five men to up to six months in prison for violence that erupted around a Uefa Europa League football match between the Dutch club Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi ...

In an indictment unveiled in October, prosecutors alleged that 15 accusers were induced by “force, fraud and coercion” to engage in sex parties from 2008 to 2015 in New York City and the Hamptons, the ...

Former president Bill Clinton has been discharged from a Washington hospital, and will be home for Christmas after he was admitted the day before with a fever. Mr Clinton is being treated for the flu, ...

Footfall was up by 31 across all UK retail destinations up until noon on Tuesday compared with Christmas Eve last year – although that was ...

Manchester United star Diogo Dalot has helped serve food to homeless people at a shelter in the city. The Portuguese defender, a £19 million signing from Milan, turned up unannounced with his partner ...

A teenager has died after a car crashed into a wall during a police chase in Sheffield. The 18-year-old was killed in a crash in the Hyde Park Walk area of the city on Monday afternoon. South ...

Santa Claus has been spotted all across the UK by observers on the ground eager to receive their Christmas presents.

Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died after chronic kidney disease aged 90. His contribution to cinema was ...

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region, who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ...

An investigation has been launched after a passenger was forced to run alongside a moving train with their hand trapped in a door. The incident happened at Ealing Broadway station, west London on the ...