In north-west Syria, more than 700 abandoned Byzantine settlements called Dead Cities, stretch across rocky hills and plains, ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the ...

Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an ...

Millstone Grit and sandstones, alternating with mudstones or shale form the rocks of the Chevin, and much of lower Wharfedale. These were laid down in a large complex delta.

The Pope has spent a fourth day in hospital with a respiratory tract infection that has already sidelined him longer than his treatment for pneumonia in 2023. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said ...

A NEW permissive footpath has finally been completed in Burley-in-Wharfedale following delays caused by the wet winter and spring.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio is leading a delegation to Saudi Arabia for direct talks with Russian officials in the coming days to seek an end to the fighting in Ukraine. Under President Trump, ...

The Highland nymph, or Alpine coffee moth, is on the edge of extinction due to loss of mountain willow habitat, experts have said.

The Conservative leader, who said she was speaking up for ‘classic liberal values’, also criticised ‘loopholes’ in liberalism which had ...

Wes Streeting has said he will believe Lucy Letby’s conviction for killing and attempting to kill babies is fair unless a court decides otherwise. The Health Secretary said that “waging a campaign” on ...

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