The 8th-term Legislative Council Election of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was held on Sunday, marking another important LegCo election following the improvement of its electoral system and the implementation of the principle of "patriots governing Hong Kong."

Officials confirmed that Yangchen Lachungpa was detained earlier this week after she was accused of being involved in a trafficking network with links to several Indian cities and neighbouring countries.

A British national was arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of spying for Israel, it has been reported.

A woman from Sussex marked her 53rd birthday in Iran’s most notorious jail after being imprisoned on espionage charges alongside her husband.

'I think it's only appropriate because nobody wants to be identified with someone who is disgraced.'

The smoke became too thick for fire crews to penetrate, leaving father-of-two Anthony Barnes to perish alongside a hotel worker.

Metro’s foreign correspondent Gergana Krasteva reports from Lebanon My taxi driver keeps one eye on the road and the other on the rear-view mirror,as if expecting smoke to rise ahead of us.

Metro’s foreign correspondent Gergana Krasteva reports from Lebanon When Mahmoud Hashem witnessed two boys fighting in Shatila Refugee Camp,in Beirut’s southern suburbs – one of them threatening to

It is 'more likely a propaganda ploy to generate concern in the West about possible nuclear escalation'