The Treasury is warning all cash-handling retailers and vending machine operators that they need to be prepared for the new pound coin which comes into circulation in March next year.

No public inquiry will be held into the Battle of Orgreave, the home secretary has announced.

Prince Harry had planned to make a secret trip to visit his actress girlfriend Meghan Markle in Canada yesterday.

Tokyo nursed a giant pumpkin-sized hangover yesterday after a weekend of Halloween revelry which saw blood-spattered ghouls, fluffy animals and fake presidential candidates cut loose.

The woman at the centre of a South Korean political scandal begged forgiveness yesterday as she arrived to meet prosecutors investigating allegations that she used her friendship with President Park Geun-hye to influence state affairs and gain benefits.

Raheem Kassam, Nigel Farage’s former chief of staff, has withdrawn from the race to be Ukip leader, leaving just Paul Nuttall and Suzanne Evans in the running.

An international diamond dealer who ran a £30mn money laundering business has been jailed for 11 years.

Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Nigerian officials of sexually exploiting women and girls living in camps for victims of Boko Haram in the war-torn northeast.

France on Monday formally ended a peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic, hailing it a success despite sporadic outbreaks of violence in its deeply troubled former colony.

Indian police gunned down eight Islamists Monday after they escaped from a high-security jail by slitting the throat of a prison guard and scaling the walls with tied-up bedsheets.

Thailand's rice management committee said on Monday it will offer loans worth $1 billion to jasmine rice farmers struggling with falling prices, on a condition that they store the grain for six months to slow down market supply.

A Pakistani court on Monday granted opposition politician Imran Khan permission to hold anti-government protests in the capital this week, but warned that demonstrations should not disrupt life for citizens, media reported.