Pope Francis has told Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another as he used his annual Christmas greetings to ...

The attack comes less than two days after a series of Israeli air strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebel-held capital Sanaa and port ...

Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has also resigned as vice president of the animal welfare organisation.

Ceremonies have been held at venues across the UK and Ireland to mark the winter solstice. December 21 is the shortest day and longest night of the year, with London experiencing seven hours and 49 ...

Children who are missing out on festive family fun while they stay at Great Ormond Street Hospital were given a free trip to ...

Roads and public transport could be disrupted by strong gusts after the Met Office announced yellow warnings for parts of the country.

Ferries have been cancelled and train services impacted as high winds hit Scotland’s Christmas getaway. Festive travellers are having to contend with weather warnings for high wind which have come ...

A 77-year-old Just Stop Oil protester has been recalled to prison after her wrists were too small for an electronic tag. Grandmother Gaie Delap, from Bristol, was sentenced to 20 months in prison in ...

The death toll following an attack on a German Christmas market has risen to five, with more than 200 people injured. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said nearly 40 of those were “so seriously injured that we ...

Questions have been raised about one of the UK’s most well-known fertility doctors after two people whose parents attended his clinic reportedly made the shock discovery that their biological father ...

The death toll in the attack on a busy Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five. Saxony-Anhalt governor Reiner Haseloff also said that more than 200 people in total were ...

The former Scottish justice secretary spoke out ahead of the trial in the US next year of Libyan Abu Agila Masud – who denies three charges.