Four councillors who voted to allow a rapist taxi driver to keep his operator's licence have resigned from a Scottish council's committee.

A Qatari tanker has been hit as it travelled through the Strait of Hormuz, suffering significant damage, Qatar's foreign ministry has said.

Actor Micheal Ward has denied raping a woman in a car after meeting her at a nightclub, telling a court they had consensual sex.

With Andy Burnham seemingly heading unchallenged to Number 10, the spotlight is on him and his closest allies for clues about their policy agenda.

A series of explosions have been heard near the hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron is due to stay in Syria.

The US called China's ballistic missile test in the south Pacific a "great concern" for the world.