UNITED Utilities Group PLC has said higher prices, allowed by regulators, helped drive improved profitability and sales in its recent financial year.

A palm tree has fallen on a man at the Cannes Film Festival as he walked along La Croisette in the French seaside town. Authorities sped through festivalgoers to tend to the person who lay injured and ...

Speaking during a campaign visit in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, ahead of the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election next month, former first minister Nicola Sturgeon hit out at the Prime ...

The Israeli government said it has launched a new military operation in the Gaza Strip to increase the pressure on Hamas to release the remaining hostages. Defence minister Israel Katz said Operation ...

Storm systems sweeping across the US Midwest have left at least 16 people dead, including nine people killed after a tornado sparked a mass casualty event in south-eastern Kentucky. Kentucky ...

Three Iranian nationals have appeared in court charged with spying offences on behalf of Iran’s foreign intelligence service. Mostafa Sepahvand, 39, Farhad Javadi Manesh, 44, and Shapoor Qalehali ...