The powerful cleric had been expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike last month.

Assailants have set off explosives and opened fire in an attack on the premises of Turkish state-run aerospace and defence company TUSAS, killing five people and wounding more than a dozen, the ...

Geoff Capes, twice the world’s strongest man and a three-time Olympian, has died aged 75, British Athletics has announced. The Lincolnshire-born athlete won Commonwealth shot put gold in 1974 and 1978 ...

British shot put record holder and two-time world's strongest man Geoff Capes has died at the age of 75. Capes set the record for the furthest shot put throw by a British man, achieving a distance ...

A Shanklin charity has sought consent to replace the Grade II listed Shanklin Theatre's "very badly corroded" five first floor ...

The Isle of Wight Council said £869,000 has so far been spent out of a total budget of £6.3 million - on street lighting upgrades and ...

Wightlink has been awarded for its strategy to achieve net zero carbon emissions. The ferry company received the Net Zero Navigator trophy from Maritime UK Solent judges, recognising its efforts in ...

Isle of Wight sailor Leigh McMillan tasted defeat in the 37th America's Cup challenge, but came out of it with head held high.

A man has appeared before a crown court judge charged with the murder of a woman who was found unconscious after taking her dog for a walk. Mother-of-six Anita Rose left her house to take her springer ...