Wales had the highest proportion of both male and female centenarians

An English politician was accompanied by her baby boy in the Commons today as she warned new mothers are “rebuked” rather than supported when returning to Parliament.

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has called on the Government to “be brave” and take a tougher stance against Iran as he marked 2,000 days of his wife being detained.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has accused “climate action delayers” of costing lives and damaging the prospects of future generations.

A camp where more than 14,000 migrants had waited along the Texas border just days ago was dramatically smaller at dawn.

The Biden administration’s special envoy to Haiti has resigned, protesting about “inhumane” large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland wracked by civil strife and natural disaster, US officials have said.

Mr Pence spoke at a forum devoted to demographics and family values in Budapest, Hungary, where conservative leaders from central Europe expressed their anxieties about falling birth rates in the Western world

An Australian economist who was arrested when Myanmar’s military seized power in February had appeared in court in the capital Naypyitaw, where he will be tried for violation of the official secrets law, his lawyer said.

The lava’s slowing pace bought time for more residents of towns in its path to grab belongings, with the Guardia Civil police force escorting them to their homes in Todoque, close to the coast, on Thursday morning

China has sent 19 fighter jets towards Taiwan in a large display of force. This happened after the self-governing island announced its intention to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group that China has also applied to join.

Denmark is siding with the United States in the dispute with its fellow EU member France over a major Indo-Pacific defence deal.

The bitter custody battle over a six-year-old boy who survived a cable car crash in Italy has inched forward in Israel, with a new court date and appeals made for privacy.

Taiwan has applied to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group, Cabinet officials said, setting up a potential clash with rival Beijing over the status of the island democracy.

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied issued presidential decrees bolstering the already near-total power he granted himself two months ago.

Rear Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo has presided over the campaign which is close to meeting its target

Days after the Confederate flag was removed in 2015, South Carolina legislative leaders vowed they would not approve the removal of any other statues or renaming of buildings under the Heritage Act and have kept their word

The head of the UN food agency is warning that 16 million people in Yemen “are marching towards starvation” and says food rations for millions in the war-torn nation will be cut in October unless new funding arrives.

Mr Johnson on countries to cut their carbon emissions by 68% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, praised the end of China’s international financing of coal, and congratulated Pakistan’s pledge to plant 10 billion trees.

The World Health Organisation said Afghanistan’s health system is on the brink of collapse and that urgent action is needed

Ms Ardern says she sees a hopeful path in using vaccinations coupled with public health measures to prevent widespread hospital admissions and deaths from Covid-19

The chief executive of Fortnite maker Epic Games said the company has been told by Apple that the game will be “blacklisted from the Apple ecosystem” until the companies’ legal case is resolved and all appeals are exhausted, which could take as long ...

The most significant rift in decades between the United States and France seemed to be healing Wednesday, after French president Emmanuel Macron and US president Joe Biden got on the phone to smooth things over.

Britney Spears has said in a court filing that she agrees with her father that the conservatorship that has controlled her life and money since 2008 should be terminated.

Tesco has warned the British government that it has a shortfall of 800 drivers and is concerned about panic buying in the run-up to Christmas if the nationwide HGV crisis is not addressed.

France will send its ambassador back to Washington next week after French President Emmanuel Macron’s phone call with President Joe Biden over a submarine dispute, the Elysee and the White House have said .

The UN General Assembly has pledged to redouble efforts to combat racism around the world, commemorating a landmark but contentious 2001 anti-racism conference by holding an anniversary meeting once again riven with divisions.

Germany’s health minister has partly blamed “incitement” against the government’s pandemic rules on social media for the killing of a petrol station worker by a man who refused to wear a face mask.

Rescue teams searching at a landslide near Mexico City have found two more bodies, bringing the death toll to four. They announced they had found the bodies of a woman, 22, and her five-year-old son.

French President Emmanuel Macron expects “clarifications and clear commitments” from US President Joe Biden in a call to take place later on Wednesday to address a dispute over submarines, Macron’s office said.

The harmful health effects of air pollution kick in at lower levels than previously thought, according to the World Health Organisation.

Researchers believe the cavity was formed by an ancient supernovae – explosion of stars – that went off some 10 million years ago

A Dutch court has ruled that border police can use ethnicity as one of the criteria for selecting people for checks at the border, a legal defeat that rights activists immediately vowed to appeal against.

World leaders, aid groups and global health organisations are growing increasingly vocal about the slow pace of global vaccinations and the inequity of access to vaccines between residents of wealthier and poorer nations

Authorities say that dangers still lie ahead for residents, including earthquakes, lava flows, toxic gases, volcanic ash and acid rain

Kaziranga is home to nearly 2,500 one-horned rhinos and is the world’s largest habitat for the rare animal. Despite the presence of armed forest guards, poachers still manage to kill some of the rhinos.

The inquest will be held by Assistant Senior Coroner for County Durham Crispin Oliver at Crook Civic Centre

The earthquake was the largest to rattle Australia since a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck 130 miles off the northwest coastal town of Broome in 2019

The releases were occurring despite the signalling of a massive effort to expel the migrants on flights to Haiti under pandemic-related authority that denies them an opportunity to seek asylum

Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country will no longer fund coal-fired power plants abroad, surprising the world on climate for the second straight year at the UN General Assembly

Gabby Petito, 22, went missing during a road trip with her fiancé

The United Nations says the Taliban have challenged the credentials of Afghanistan’s former UN ambassador and are asking to speak at the General Assembly’s high-level meeting of world leaders.

The mother of a two-year-old in need of a kidney transplant has made a plea for families to consider organ donation.

McDonald’s said it was also exploring using recycled plastic toys to make new restaurant trays.

Justine Johnson, 22, was charged in Tawas City with murder and first-degree child abuse. She pleaded not guilty to both charges

US President Joe Biden used his first address before the UN General Assembly to declare that the world stands at an “inflection point in history” and must move quickly to act on the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuse.

US Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said images of what appeared to be Border Patrol agents on horseback rounding up migrants trying to cross the southern border “horrified” him.