Watch: Sri Lankan protestors dive into presidential presidential pool
Demonstrators who ousted Sri Lanka's president from his palace in Colombo on Saturday say they will not leave until he resigns.
It comes amid a 24-hour strike across the UK, which saw train drivers walk out over jobs, pay and conditions.
Four drivers and car owners are facing large bills after they failed to respond to court summons and were convicted in their absence.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is 22 percentage points ahead of her rival Rishi Sunak in the contest to become the country's next prime minister, a poll of Conservative Party members by Opinium Research showed on Saturday. Among a sample of 450 party members who had decided how they would vote in the ongoing leadership election put Truss, who other polls have also shown to be the clear frontrunner, on 61%, with former finance minister Sunak on 39%, Opinium said.
Nick Gardner has completed the impressive feat of scaling all of Scotland’s highest peaks.
Gregory Vooght was accused by the Metropolitan Police of flouting the pandemic restrictions, but told a court he was sitting at his desk working when officers arrived.
AN appeal has been launched after a cafe worker at one of the town's most popular beauty spots was allegedly attacked on a boiling hot day.
Residents of Heimaey, an island off the coast of Iceland, form puffin patrols to rescue chicks
Politicians in the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been “playing political games” instead of making people’s lives better, Liz Truss has claimed.
THUNDERSTORMS are due to bring an end to the latest heatwave in Essex this week, with forecasters warning for the potential of torrential downpours.
AS I write this both our temporary Prime Minister and our temporary Chancellor are on holiday.
Storms are now expected to hit across Scotland from 9am on Sunday, with the heavy rain continuing into Monday, the Met Office forecasts.
Ten people, including two children, were killed when a man went on a shooting rampage through the quiet streets of the western Montenegro city of Cetinje. The gunman used a hunting rifle to first shoot the two children, aged eight and 11, and their mother, who lived as tenants in his house. Montenegrin police chief Zoran Brdjanin said the attacker was a 34-year-old man identified only by his initials, VB.
The number of people suspected of having dementia who are undergoing assessments in order to get a diagnosis has halved since the pandemic, official figures show.
Firefighters from across Europe have joined their French counterparts to help battle several wildfires, including in the south-west of the country.
Boris Johnson’s demise as prime minister was a “triumph” for Remain voters, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said. The Brexit Opportunities minister told GB News there are “a lot of people” who still resent Britain leaving the European Union (EU) and therefore rejoiced in bringing who he called “the standard bearer” of Brexit down.
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The actress suffered a ‘severe anoxic brain injury’ following a car crash last Friday.
Witnesses were quoted as saying the attacker shot randomly at people in the street in the town of in Cetinje before being shot dead by police.
With Scotland recording the biggest increase in home working of all the UK regions during the first quarter of this year, one recruitment expert is warning of a growing divide between the “haves” and “have-nots” of hybrid employment.
Start-up KINO brings communities of digital nomads to hidden parts of Italy. Here's how their first project went.