The official invitation asks new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to attend the upcoming Arab League summit in Baghdad.

Eddwin Cortes-Pinerez, of Mitcham Lane, sexually assaulted five women in the space of three weeks, each time quickly approaching the women from behind and grabbing their bottoms before cycling off. On ...

Heathrow airport has made dividend payments to shareholders for the first time in five years. The west London airport said it completed the £250 million transaction on March 7 “as a result of our ...

Crystal Palace were awarded close to £1.8m (€2.1m) as part of UEFA’s Club Benefits Programme, which encourages national team participation.

Around 1,500 litres of white paint is being applied to railway tracks to prepare for hot weather. Network Rail said hundreds of its workers armed with brushes and rollers will be deployed across ...

Walthamstow Central has closed due to an electrical fault which is causing severe delays on the Victoria line.

Pope Francis’s body has been moved to St Peter’s Basilica, where it will lie in state for three days ahead of his funeral on Saturday. The coffin of the late pontiff, who died on Easter Monday aged 88 ...

Police have launched an urgent appeal in help finding a missing teenage girl from Kent. Shannon Brazil was last seen in Maidstone town at around 11pm on April 20. The 15-year-old is described by ...

Officials from Ukraine, US and the UK are meeting in London – but the talks will not be the high-level meeting originally envisaged.

Police are hunting for a group of girls after a man and a pensioner were allegedly assaulted on south east London trains.

Women who suffer from low iron levels in pregnancy are much more likely to have a baby with heart disease, experts have found in a “gamechanger” discovery. For the first time, researchers have linked ...

The Office for National Statistics said public sector net borrowing rose to £151.9 billion in the year to the end of March.