Details are starting to emerge of the victims of the Los Angeles fires - and at least two died trying to protect the homes where they raised families for decades.

The family of a missing British hiker in northern Italy have said they are "devastated by the tragic events of the last few days".

Pope Francis has been honoured with America's highest civilian award by President Joe Biden, who has described the pontiff as "a light of faith, hope, and love that shines brightly across the world".

Donald Trump's Middle East envoy has met Israel's prime minister in an effort to secure a ceasefire deal in Gaza before the president-elect takes office on 20 January.

And so now it is certain. Alice Weidel will lead her far-right party into Germany's general election next month.

The Vatican has given the green light for gay men to become priests - as long as they remain celibate.

Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia's Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

The UK has laid out a new economic relationship with China, and to use one of China's favourite phrases, both countries are selling it as a "win-win" situation.

The Sudanese army has recaptured the city of Wad Madani from rebels.

A Syrian man has been crushed to death trying to cross the Channel from France in a small boat, the AFP news agency has reported.

The black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of a South Korean passenger jet that crashed, killing 179 people, stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, officials have said.

They are the displaced and there are tens of thousands of them, 600 in an evacuation centre we visited.

The fires that have been raging in Los Angeles County this week may be the "most destructive" in modern US history.

The US has announced it has increased its reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Leicester City's owners have launched a landmark lawsuit against a helicopter manufacturer following the club chairman's death in a crash in 2018.

Given gilt yields are rising, the pound is falling and, all things considered, markets look pretty hairy back in the UK, it's quite likely Rachel Reeves's trip to China gets overshadowed by noises off.

Donald Trump has been handed a no-penalty sentence following his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.

Emma Raducanu has revealed she refused to use an antiseptic spray to treat insect bites for fear of failing a drug test before the Australian Open.

Donald Trump says a meeting is being set up between himself and Vladimir Putin - and that he and Barack Obama "probably" like each other.

Last year was the warmest on record, the first to breach a symbolic threshold, and brought with it deadly impacts like flooding and drought, scientists have said.