The Abare Festival, commonly known as the Fire and Violence Festival, has taken place in Japan’s Noto region for 350 years. During the event’s finale, men leap into the river among fiercely burning ...

Robert Jenrick is to be unveiled as Reform UK’s shadow chancellor just over a month after defecting from the Conservatives. The former Tory cabinet minister has beaten former Reform leader Richard ...

Soybean products have long been blamed for rodent damage in cars. The theory is that parts suppliers turned to soybean oil as a more environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum-based products, ...

Anti-Israel activists are so convinced of their unimpeachable righteousness, they simply can’t see how obnoxious they are ...

Bungled’ after-hours raids by pest control marksmen left nearly 100 birds dead or maimed in city’s Victoria station ...

Monday’s announcement that the Government was finally abandoning plans to cancel local elections across 30 councils in May marked a momentous victory. A victory for Reform UK, which was set to ...

Izzy Hammond unhurt after driving her Formula E car into a concrete wall during influencer event in Saudi Arabia ...

A glove found near Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home has been sent for DNA testing, after the FBI confirmed it could have been ...

As the PM abandons his plan to deny a vote to millions, here is the full timeline of our campaign to save democracy ...

Fiji’s spiralling health crisis is linked to an explosion in methamphetamine that threatens to turn the Pacific into a ‘semi-narco region’ ...

For the second week in succession, Kirsty Muir was within touching distance of the Olympic medal that she so desperately craves. But once more at these Winter Games, it would slip agonisingly from her ...

After posting 202 for seven, and then unleashing Jofra Archer’s pace on Italy’s top order, England could finally glimpse what ...