The U.S. has threatened Iran with military action if it does not come to the negotiation table. Iran has refused direct talks ...

Rear-Admiral Sam Salt, who died on December 3 aged 69, commanded the first British warship to be sunk by enemy action after the Second World War On May 4 1982, during the Falklands War, Salt was ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have seized two overseas-registered tankers in the Persian Gulf accused of fuel smuggling.

ON MAY 28, 1901, William Knox D'Arcy obtained an exclusive petroleum concession for a period of sixty years covering all of Persia except the five northern provinces. On November 27, 1932, the Persian ...

Iranian armed forces-run Defra Press claimed that Iran 'certainly has sufficient weapons' to attack Diego Garcia, a remote ...

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have imposed a ban on US warplanes using their air fields or skies to attack Iran after US President Donald Trump over the weekend threatened to bomb the country.

Norway's proximity to the USSR in the Cold War led to it building many military bunkers – some of them vast secret bases.

A Florida-based sportfishing company on Saturday showed off the rare catch of an enormous warsaw grouper that inhaled a bait dropped to the lightless depths. “We sent it hundreds of feet down ...

British retail sales unexpectedly rose in February, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed, defying most forecasts from analysts who had predicted a fall against a backdrop of weak ...

British mortgage approvals cooled to a six-month low in February ahead of a rise in transaction taxes on many house purchases while consumer lending grew at the joint-slowest pace in nearly three ...