Long A&E waits in England have soared, new figures show, as NHS leaders warned that the service is heading for winter under “more pressure than ever before”. Performance against key targets fell short ...

US police officers jumped into a swimming pool to save an Arizona man trapped in his submerged car after he accidentally drove into the water. A Phoenix Police Department spokesperson said the man ...

A 60-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the deaths of three elderly people from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a Swanage care home has been released from the police ...

The Makin Review named Sir Jamie and the Rev Sue Colman as likely to have had significant knowledge of John Smyth’s abuses in the UK and Africa.

Under the terms of Good Friday Agreement of 1998, the UK Government is obliged to call a referendum in Northern Ireland if there is evidence of a shift in public opinion in favour of unity. In that ...

The broadcaster and former footballer, who the BBC said would step down from hosting Match Of The Day (MOTD) at the end of the season, co-founded Goalhanger Podcasts in 2014 with former ITV controller ...

Illegal mining remains common in South Africa’s old gold-mining areas, with miners going into closed shafts to dig for any remaining deposits.

More than 700,000 passengers suffered disruption when flights were grounded at UK airports on August 28 last year.

Authorities are on high alert following the violence in Amsterdam before and after a Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

A partially sighted Belfast woman has said she is looking forward to going completely blind so she will no longer have to deal with a rare condition which causes her to experience terrifying ...

An Oxford lawyer who made up rape and kidnap allegations in an ‘evil’ campaign of harassment against her former lover has been released from prison. Anisah Ahmed was given the life term and ordered to ...