Pope Francis has marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate in hospital as he received positive medical news on his recovery, a cake and hundreds of messages wishing him well. He spent the morning ...

NHS England is a public body delivering services with taxpayers’ money, which was set up to support and oversee NHS trusts and wider organisations to deliver healthcare. It has worked with the ...

Ben Lane and Sean Vendy were magnanimous in defeat after they lost in the second round of the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships 2025.

Staff at the hospital where killer nurse Lucy Letby worked could face gross negligence manslaughter charges, police have said. Cheshire Constabulary said suspects had been identified and notified in ...

Tens of thousands of local government workers are considering strike action over a pay dispute, a union has announced. More than 70,000 local government workers, represented by Unison, are being ...

Belgian federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the arrests of several people in a corruption probe linked to the European ...

Reform UK are “counting their chickens” ahead of the election in Scotland next year, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said. The Nigel Farage-led party has been surging in the polls in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he agrees in principle with a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, but he emphasised that the terms are yet to be worked out and noted ...

The captain of a container ship which struck a US oil tanker off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday will be detained for another 36 hours.

Train managers at Avanti West Coast have accepted a deal over a long-running dispute, ending the threat of further industrial action. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said its members ...

SPS also committed to pilot ‘signs of life’ suicide prevention/monitoring technology in Polmont, with a report due by January 17 2026.

Kemi Badenoch accused the Scottish Government of confusing sex and gender during her first visit as leader to Scotland.