The fire took place just weeks after devastating flash floods in Valencia killed more than 200 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

The Home Office spent £15 million buying a derelict prison contaminated with asbestos amid political pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog.

The knife handle figure, discovered in the River Tyne near Corbridge in Northumberland, is thought to have been bought as a ...

Japanese Princess Yuriko has died aged 101 after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said. Yuriko was the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the ...