The number of people granted asylum by the Home Office jumped by more than a third last year.

Official figures showed nearly 55,000 migrants were handed refugee status or another type of permission to stay in Britain in the year to December.

A disgraced former cop has died by suicide after he was charged with child sex abuse against his own niece, as his brave alleged victim has broken her silence on the shocking case. 

Francis Collier, 38, a former member of the Morton Police Department in Pennsylvania, was charged with rape of a child and incest of a minor on Tuesday, according to court records and local authorities. 

A California man was accused of poisoning his roommates after they caught him on camera spraying their food with a mysterious substance. 

Shocking footage captured by a camera in the kitchen of the shared home in Santa Clarita showed the suspect, who has not been identified, wearing a gas mask as he sprayed his roommate's groceries. 

Britain's elite universities now have more Chinese than British students enrolled on advanced engineering and technology courses, new data shows.

The UK's top five research centres also have almost as many Chinese students as British doing post-graduate science and maths.

A Florida man has been the first person identified as one of four people shot dead by Cuba's coast guard on Wednesday after a speedboat allegedly entered the country's waters and opened fire.

Michel Ortega Casanova was named by the Cuban government as one of the deceased, with the three other victims' identities yet to be named. Six others on the speedboat were also injured, Cuban officials said. 

Human remains found in a remote wilderness area have been 'provisionally identified' as those of a Belgian backpacker who disappeared without a trace almost three years ago.

Tasmania Police Commander Nathan Johnston revealed that expert reports have provided compelling evidence that the remains likely belong to Celine Cremer, who was last seen near Cradle Mountain in June 2023.

A Russian toddler survived a 10ft fall from a high rise tower block window after two quick-thinking nurses used a coat to catch him mid-air. 

Shocking footage shows the 18-month-old teetering on a windowsill of a residential block in St Petersburg, before losing his grip and plunging towards the ground.

To the outside world, she looked like the perfect mom and wife – a successful professional specializing in flipping luxury homes.

But mother-of-three Kouri Richins also had a secret lover with whom she exchanged racy texts and fantasized about starting a new life together before allegedly killing her husband Eric with a poisoned cocktail in 2022. 

A new proposal to build a huge AI data center near a 100 million year old dinosaur park in Texas has sparked outrage over claims it could destroy the historic site. 

The proposal by NRG Energy, headquartered in Houston, outlines a development plan for a 2,600 acre AI-generated natural gas power plant next to the Paluxy River, which also feeds the Dinosaur Valley State Park. 

A woman who went missing for 24 years and was found leading a new life was arrested Wednesday over a decades-old DUI charge.

Michele Hundley Smith was 38 when she left her home in Eden, North Carolina, to go Christmas shopping across the border in Martinsville, Virginia, on December 9, 2001.

A former Georgia high school teacher has been arrested and charged with child molestation, less than a year after she posted a video on social media complaining about how men are 'creepy'.

Danielle Weaver, a 29-year-old married mother-of-two, was taken into custody by the Leesburg Police Department on February 18, according to a press release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).

Behind the brutalist facade of FBI headquarters at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue agents are no doubt watching the scandal engulfing Britain's royal family with more than a passing interest.

Whether there is any current FBI investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor remains a closely guarded secret. The agency typically works in silence and refuses to confirm or deny if active investigations exist.