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Jean Marais' journey through the underworld gains new strangeness and rapture in this restoration of Jean Cocteau's 1950 Orpheus myth Jean Cocteau's Orphée from 1950 is now re-released nationally, as part of the BFI Sou...

Peter and Avril Griffiths found guilty of rape, indecent assault and taking indecent photos of a child A husband and wife nicknamed Fred and Rosemary West in their south Wales town have been jailed for grooming and rapin...

Netflix has announced an end point for the comedy drama, which has run since 2013.

Valeri Belokon thought he had the go-ahead to take over Blackpool from Owen Oyston but a court hearing in Kyrgyzstan - which he says ignored natural justice - has the club in limbo When the Latvian bank mogul Valeri Belo...

Oregon zoo posted images taken during routine health checks.

Heathrow Express still running at half capacity after overhead cable damage caused disruption Railway services in and out of London's Paddington station have returned to "near-normal" but the Heathrow Express is running ...

• Head of women's game and lead analyst have impressed• Andrew Strauss to assist in search for his successor The search for the new director of England cricket officially starts on Friday with Clare Connor, head of t...

MPs have accepted more than £2m worth of free travel over the last two years, BBC analysis reveals.

• McCann was Barry Bennell's assistant at Crewe• Cleared of four charges relating to late 1980s Paul McCann, formerly Barry Bennell's assistant at Crewe Alexandra, has been cleared of four specimen charges of indecen...

President Moon Jae-in is expected to deliver an invitation to Pope Francis to visit North Korea

Helen Rosner writes about how restaurants like the Spotted Pig have responded to sexual-misconduct scandals by promoting women to leadership roles to clean up the messes men have made.

ONS snapshot shows drop of 0.8%, which is bigger than expected after summer splurge A strong summer for Britain's retailers came to an abrupt end in September as weaker demand for food dragged down spending overall. The ...

Lara Alqasem refused entry on study visa on 2 October Authorities cited her role in Students for Justice in Palestine An American student who was barred entry into Israel under a law against foreign activists who support...

A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty Wednesday to sending letters filled with white powder to President Trump’s sons and others. Daniel Frisiello, 25, looked down and covered his mouth as the prosecutor, US Attorney Scot...

A man in Texas was caught on surveillance video going on an epic beer run after swiping five cases of Bud Light from a convenience store, cops said. The sudsy suspect walked into a Murphy’s Express in Arlington, Texas ...

With less than three weeks before Election Day, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has still not agreed to debate his Republican challenger, Marcus J. Molinaro.

During an interview Wednesday with The Wall Street Journal, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election is "appropria...

Trump's name has also been removed from hotels in Toronto and Panama City

A new video shows the artist building the shredding mechanism that was supposed to completely destroy the auctioned painting

The "caravan" of migrants making their way to the US border has swelled to 4,000 people -- as the number of undocumented immigrants entering the country skyrockets, according to reports. The large cluster of Hondurans --...

Cops believe Jayme Closs -- the Wisconsin teen who disappeared this week after her parents were shot dead inside their home -- was still at the residence when the murders occurred. Authorities said they determined this b...

Among the dead in the attack claimed by the Taliban was Gen. Abdul Raziq, the powerful police chief of Kandahar. Three Americans were wounded.