Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family who control it have agreed to pay up to $7.4bn (£6bn) to settle claims regarding its powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin. The deal represents an increase of ...

President Trump said he wants OPEC and Saudi Arabia to bring down the price of oil which he says is fuelling the Russia-Ukraine war.

Millions of people have received emergency phone alerts over the approaching Storm Éowyn. The worst disruption is due to hit Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland on Friday, where the Met Office has ...

Storm Éowyn is threatening to unleash severe gales across parts of the UK on Friday, with several weather warnings in place. An amber wind warning for parts of north Wales suggests gusts of up to ...

Reich also criticises Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship - where anyone born in the US becomes a citizen - ...

Newly released satellite imagery shows Israel Defense Force construction taking place within the demilitarised buffer zone that separates it from Syria. The image, obtained exclusively by BBC Verify, ...

Four men have been jailed for their parts in a plot to smuggle £310,000 worth of cannabis to the Isle of Man on a fishing boat. John Skillen, 44, Jordan Corkill, 26, Ashley Harrison, 36, and Jamie ...

An artist is recording the history of local shops by sketching store fronts from around the city. Ric Liptrot, 40, started drawing buildings around York when he moved to the city 15 years ago, and he ...

Unpaid and low-paid internships are "unfair" to working-class graduates, students say, as a new study suggests that these opportunities increasingly favour those from a middle-class background.

Namibia's former First Lady Monica Geingos has released a video message warning people that fraudsters are using her name and likeness to target unsuspecting citizens. Manipulated clips circulating ...

An inmate has been convicted of carrying out a string of attacks with homemade plastic weapons on prison officers. Aklakar Rahman, 38, repeatedly attacked staff at HMS Swaleside in Kent and ...

This is the first red warning issued for Northern Ireland since a new impact-based alert system was introduced by the Met Office in 2011. It is also the first time a red warning has been issued across ...