France’s most famous gangster on Sunday made a spectacular jailbreak with the help of three heavily-armed accomplices who landed in his jail in a helicopter and flew out with him on board.

North Korea's Kim Jong-un has banned sarcasm because he fears people only agree with him ironically, according to reports.

Parliamentary authorities have removed around 77,000 allegedly fake signatures from an online petition which calls for a re-run of the Brexit referendum - with hackers taking responsibility for...

The Spanish government has been accused of conducting a smear campaign against Catalonian politicians in a bid to discredit this week's independence referendum after a judge ordered police to...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and hundreds of his supporters were arrested in central Moscow on Saturday during nationwide rallies against President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a...

Claire Foy has reportedly received a hefty sum after it was revealed that, despite being the star of The Crown, she was paid less than her on-screen husband, played by Matt Smith, for the Netflix...

A US air strike killed nearly 60 civilians, including children, in Syria on Tuesday after the coalition mistook them for Islamic State (Isil) fighters.

It is the first time the Duke of Cambridge will feature alone on an official UK coin struck by the Royal Mint

Mother-of-two is in intensive care after the incident in south London, the Taking The Initiative Party have confirmed, calling her 'strong'

The actor, well-known from a series of long-running panel shows and Shakespeare film adaptations, passed away yesterday at home

An orangutan described as the ‘saddest in the world’ after being kept in chains for four years has been successfully rehabilitated.

A young sheepdog lent new meaning to the phrase “bringing the sheep home” after he led a flock straight into a farmer’s house.

Two men and three teenagers held after Black Lives Matter activist shot in the head at house party in south London

George and Amal Clooney plan to help nearly 3,000 Syrian refugee children go to school this year in Lebanon, where hundreds of thousands are out of education.

Bland campmates hog the limelight while perhaps the most interesting moment in the entire episode was a story about a fart

Sir Philip Green has been named in Parliament as the businessman at the centre of Britain’s #MeToo scandal.

Army veterans are expected to be charged with murder within a fortnight over the deaths of Bloody Sunday protesters during the Troubles 47 years ago, The Telegraph understands.

A man dressed as a clown has been found by police lurking in a wooded area near a Kentucky apartment block in the latest case of "creepy" clown sightings across the US.

Committee examining Scottish Government's handling of complaints found that Nicola Sturgeon had misled the cross-party investigation

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will no longer use their HRH titles or formally represent the Queen, Buckingham Palace has announced as the Royal Family severed all official ties with the couple.

Catalan leaders are preparing to defy what they consider an illegitimate takeover of their democratic institutions, as the Spanish government prepares to impose direct rule over the region.

Spain’s foreign minister on Sunday stated that scenes of police violence against voters in the Catalonia independence referendum were “fake news”.

Britain's economy would be "booming" if not for Brexit, the Governor of the Bank of England has said.

Parliamentary authorities have removed around 77,000 allegedly fake signatures from an online petition which calls for a re-run of the Brexit referendum - with hackers taking responsibility for...

When the Duke of Sussex and Ed Sheeran teamed up for a charity project, they promised to fight for those suffering in silence all over the world.

Boris Johnson’s wife told she will receive a fixed penalty notice alongside her husband and Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor

Police should increase the use stop-and-search to tackle soaring tackle knife crime and violence in London, the former head of Scotland Yard who oversaw a huge decline in the use of the powers has...

The last surviving female Spitfire pilot who flew 400 of the planes during the Second World War has died aged 101.

Home Secretary to decide whether to approve WikiLeaks founder’s removal from the UK to face espionage charges

Lancashire became the first council to ban unstunned halal meat in school dinners.

India’s most wanted man was arrested trying to open a bank account, days after The Telegraph tracked him down to an £8 million apartment in London’s West end.

Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.

A chaplain to the Queen has resigned after publicly criticising a church that allowed a Koran reading during its service as part of an interfaith project.