Headline News

The Bake Off finalist on her highs and lows, making friends with Matt Lucas - and that Freddie Mercury cake Patrick Hutchinson: 'My natural instinct is to protect the vulnerable' See the Observer's faces of 2020 in full ...

A 5-year-old boy from Virginia brought a gun to school after grabbing an adult’s backpack by mistake, authorities said. The boy pulled out the weapon from the bag during class at Anne E. Moncure Elementary School in St...

When it comes to eligibility and money, there will always be disagreement about who gets what, when and how. It goes with the territory in a free society.       

Vaccine safety message 'vitally important', head of medicines regulator tells Andrew Marr Show Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Public health messaging that people can have faith in the safet...

Defying US sanctions, Iran sends flotilla of 10 vessels to help the Latin American nation fight crippling fuel shortage.

Jeffrey Epstein is dead — but the conspiracy theories won’t follow suit. Despite Epstein’s suicide in a Manhattan jail cell last year, someone claims in a recent YouTube video that the pedophile was seen, alive and...

Hospitals in Pennsylvania are so strained, one man took to social media to find an ICU bed for his mother on Tuesday. A nurse in a nearby city saw the post and was able to help find her a bed. In Texas, patients are wait...

"It's a complete double standard because girls are allowed to paint and get their nails done."

As if 2020 hasn’t been deflating enough, one medical expert now claims COVID-19 could cause erectile dysfunction. With the pandemic crushing spirits and finances all across the world for months, one doctor told NBC’s...

President falsely claims he was 'cheated' and calls for people to vote in coming Senate races that will decide control of chamber Donald Trump has held his first political rally since losing the presidential election, de...

A judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate protections for young immigrants brought to the country as children. But their status remains precarious.

The vote, contested by about 14,000 candidates, comes with the country in a deep political and economic crisis.

Even without final approval, more than 1 million health care workers and others in China who are deemed at high risk of infection have received experimental vaccines under emergency use permission. There has been no word...

The medicines regulator says the jab will be distributed across the UK "without any interruption".

Reeling from the pandemic, transit agencies are grappling with drastic reductions in ridership and pleading for help from Washington.

"It's a huge richness of biodiversity, of culture and relationship between the two nations," said conservationist Jose Manuel Perez. "We are losing that with this wall."

A minister has described Black Lives Matter as a "political movement" as he faced questions about fans who booed footballers taking a knee to support the issue.

Heirs of Jewish art dealers bring case over Guelph Treasure that defence lawyers say could open floodgates A 12-year wrangle over a rare collection of medieval ecclesiastical art sold by Jewish art dealers to the Nazis i...

Whatever happened to just nagging someone? Two maids in Singapore have been accused of mixing their bodily fluids into food — including one household servant who allegedly thought doing so would make her bosses more ag...

There are "significant differences" to resolved by the UK's Lord Frost and the EU's Michel Barnier.

These brazen electronic thieves give new meaning to the terms “highway robbery” and “moving violation.” Gangs of daring thieves have been roaming Britain, stealing popular items like cellphones, PS5 gaming consol...

A man has been charged with attempted murder after a baby girl was found seriously injured in Blackpool.