Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed on Friday that its forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defences are ...

February half term is the hardest school holiday for many families. The weather is dismal and January's bills cast a heavy shadow. Picnics in the park are out, free days out are limited and while we ...

Britain’s former ambassador to the US has been appointed special envoy to the Western Balkans as the UK prepares to host a major European summit with leaders from the region. Foreign Secretary David ...

A bar manager has said he was “gobsmacked” after winning a £4 million country house which is like “something out of Saltburn”. Paul Knight, 47, from Reading in Berkshire, is now the owner of a ...

Several thousand high school and university students blocked traffic in central Athens on Friday in an anti-government protest against delays in an investigation into a 2023 rail disaster that claimed ...

The family of a Slough man who was murdered in his home has paid tribute to him calling him a ‘incredibly warm and kind-hearted person’.

Forced leave began worldwide on Friday for most employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), as federal workers’ associations turned to the courts to try to roll orders that have ...

A dog-obsessed Harry Potter fan is proving that you don't need to have an extensive history in showing to win big at Crufts.

A small aircraft crashed on a street in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, killing at least two passengers, the local firefighter corps said in a statement. The plane went down in the Barra Funda ...

Pc Rajan Solanki, 28, was sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday after pleading guilty to assault by beating, the IOPC said.

During his visit, Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a three million-euro (£2.5 million) funding package for the island.

Dominic Hampshire, a senior aide to the Duke of York, gave a witness statement for Yang Tengbo during legal proceedings.