The leading pollster has said the council election results confirm Rishi Sunak’s consistently low approval ratings

The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk carpets known the world over

Readers didn’t hold back, calling the Conservatives everything from a ‘dire smorgasbord of incompetence’ to politcial lightweights akin to ‘hydrogen balloons’

Indonesian scientists document extraordinary case of Rakus the Sumatran orangutan, who covers his facial wound with mesh made from chewed leaves

Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in Friday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a U.K. general election in which the main opposition Labour Party appears increasingly likely to return to power after 14 years

Sir Keir Starmer said Labour’s win in Blackpool South was ‘truly historic’ and the ‘most important result’ nationally