Putin-backing United Russia party is predicted crushing victory with almost 60% of the vote in country's parliamentary elections, early counts say

Now Suffolk village considers Piddington-style referendum as local RAF base is earmarked for asylum seekers

Celebrations all around! Giant pandas across the world celebrate their birthdays

How the Arctic became the new front line in a VERY cold war: As Trump signs Greenland deal and Russia fortifies its Siberian bases, Oxford historian PETER FRANKOPAN warns melting ice could lead to a global conflict in the High North

Question stuns Anthony Albanese as he visits New York to receive leadership award: 'Don't you feel like a bit of a fraud'

'I find it morally incomprehensible': Students describe their despair after campus accommodation crisis forces them to defer places, couch-surf, sleep in the library or even register with homeless charities. So are greedy universities to blame?

Revealed: The British towns with fewest jobs for young people as more than 1million left unemployed or out of education

'They should rename it HMO street': Frustrated residents accuse 'greedy' landlords of ruining their road by converting their properties into shared homes

Quaint Michigan town slowly being converted into Muslim safe haven as residents complain mosques are popping up everywhere

Beau Lamarre-Condon's trial begins over Jesse Baird and Luke Davies's alleged murders in Sydney terrace

Chilling new details about illegal immigrant who gunned down California IHOP worker: His twisted past and disturbing 'fixation' revealed