A new book documents how young people in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Johannesburg use social ties to find ways ...

Locals are being asked to keep their windows and doors closed after a shop caught fire in East Ham. The fire with flats above ...

A gunman who murdered a bouncer and a policeman in south London more than 12 years ago has been jailed for life. Gary Nelson, 36, of Woolwich, south-east London, was convicted of murdering William ...

An inquiry is to be launched after six men walked free when a fraud case costing £60m and lasting 21 months collapsed at London's Old Bailey. The men were accused of conspiring to corrupt public ...

But because a flat two-dimensional map can't portray size and relativity very well, we have a very distorted view of planet earth - and Australia, for example, is often perceived as a small island on ...

The streets of Hillbrow, a tough downtown Johannesburg district more famous for its hijacked buildings, poverty and crime, ...

Metro’s tenant diary series exploring what renting is like in the UK and further afield. This week, we’re in buzzy South-East ...