A TV historian has said she thinks Jane Austen would be disappointed that women do not have equality in 2025. Lucy Worsley was speaking at Austen’s birthplace in Steventon, Hampshire, at a country ...

At least 38 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in Israeli air strikes, hospital officials said, as Israel’s military said ...

Recognised worldwide in his red robes and with his wide smile, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th dalai lama, describes himself as a ...

Crew members aboard a ship set ablaze by a series of attacks in the Red Sea have abandoned the vessel after it took on water. The attack marks the first serious assault in the vital corridor for trade ...

The death of a scientist in Dundee is being investigated as a murder and a 20-year-old man has been charged, police said. Police Scotland on Sunday named the victim as Dr Fortune Gomo, 39, who lived ...

Mayar Yahia died after being hit by a car in Upper Highgate Street on April 14 last year, West Midlands Police said.

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown urges readers to volunteer for a national butterfly survey and predicts the spring sunshine will mean ...

A ship set ablaze by a series of attacks in the Red Sea is taking on water and crew members are preparing to abandon the vessel. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which include gunfire ...

Sid Wilson proposed to Kelly Osbourne at her father Ozzy Osbourne's final ever gig as his band Black Sabbath reunited at Villa Park on ...

A man has been arrested after an exhibition honouring the Windrush generation was vandalised in Brixton, south London. Officers were called to reports of vandalism at Windrush Square at 6.09am on ...

Dozens of people have been killed since raging floodwaters slammed into central Texas on Friday. The death toll rose to nearly 70 on Sunday after searchers found more more bodies in the hardest-hit ...

The Met Office has said a third heatwave is set to hit the UK by the end of next week. Temperatures could climb into the low 30s and the heat is forecast to remain at night making sleeping ...