A man accused of setting a woman on fire inside a New York City subway train and then watching her die after she was engulfed in flames has made an initial court appearance and will remain in custody.

An Amsterdam District Court has sentenced five men to up to six months in prison for violence that erupted around a Uefa Europa League football match between the Dutch club Ajax and Israel’s Maccabi ...

Former president Bill Clinton has been discharged from a Washington hospital, and will be home for Christmas after he was admitted the day before with a fever. Mr Clinton is being treated for the flu, ...

Manchester United star Diogo Dalot has helped serve food to homeless people at a shelter in the city. The Portuguese defender, a £19 million signing from Porto, turned up unannounced with his partner ...

Will Forrester hopes that Wanderers can give their supporters some Christmas cheer starting with the visit of Barnsley. There were positives to take from the trip to Wycombe on Friday night as Ian ...

A teenager has died after a car crashed into a wall during a police chase in Sheffield. The 18-year-old was killed in a crash in the Hyde Park Walk area of the city on Monday afternoon. South ...

Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died after chronic kidney disease aged 90. His contribution to cinema was ...

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region, who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ...

An investigation has been launched after a passenger was forced to run alongside a moving train with their hand trapped in a door. The incident happened at Ealing Broadway station, west London on the ...

Police are appealing for help to find the next of kin of a man who died in Bolton yesterday, Monday. Andrew Concannon, 59, died at a property on Darwen Road. There are no "suspicious circumstances" ...

A day later on Christmas Eve, residents received another email from Urang apologising “for the distress” caused and suggesting “to maintain the Christmas cheer” people with light displays should ...

A protester has admitted maliciously damaging a display case containing the Stone of Destiny at Edinburgh Castle last year. Joe Madden, 22, pled guilty to damaging the display cabinet in the crown ...