A software engineer has completed his year-long challenge of doing 300 press-ups every day in memory of his mother who had multiple sclerosis (MS), raising more than £10,000 for charity. Alex Welford, ...

The number of migrants arriving in the UK in 2024 after crossing the English Channel in small boats was up by a quarter on the previous year, figures show. Some 36,816 people made the journey in 2024, ...

Harry Chandler, the third Pearl Harbour survivor to die in recent weeks, helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters after Japan’s ...

Women’s sport will be front and centre in 2025 when football’s European Championship, the rugby union World Cup and cricket’s One-Day World Cup will all come under the spotlight. England will bid to ...

Only two of the 181 people on board the Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air survived when it crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday.

Seven people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Jabaliya area, and a woman and child died when another hit the Bureij refugee camp.

The past year saw Taylor Swift make history with her Eras Tour, major albums released by music titans and protests at Eurovision overshadow Abba’s anniversary year. As 2025 gets under way, it looks ...

The three countries wrote in a joint statement on Tuesday that they “strongly condemn last week’s violence against peaceful protesters.

From Sydney to Mumbai to Nairobi, communities around the world have welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. The New Year’s Eve ball dropped in soggy Times Square, where ...

North-West England was bearing the brunt of the rain with an amber weather warning in place on Wednesday morning.

A Lancashire NHS dietician says restaurants should have to put carbohydrate numbers on menus to help diabetics dine out more safely.