Pope Francis has ushered in 2025 with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death. The ...

Nearly 200 Royal Navy sailors were recalled to their ship on Christmas Day to deploy to shadow Russian warships for 500 miles in the North Sea and through the English Channel.

The two-year renovation of the almost 300-year-old watermill on the outskirts of Belfast will see it reopen as a deli, cafe and restaurant.

A pensioner was killed in a hit-and-run crash on New Year’s Eve. A 70-year-old woman, who was a pedestrian, was struck by a car in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and died at the scene around 7pm on Tuesday.

Seven people were killed in the Jabaliya area, a woman and child died in the Bureij refugee camp, and three people were ...

The PA news agency’s photographers provided unrivalled coverage of the world of politics this year as these first rate images show.

Flood alerts and warnings have been issued across Cumbria today after harsh weather battered the nation. A yellow weather warning for wind was in place for much of the county yesterday (December 31), ...

A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after a hit-and-run incident in which two New Year revellers were injured. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the ...

Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”. The Met Office’s yellow warning that ...

A total of 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats during 2024, according to provisional figures from ...

A 32-year-old man was arrested after one officer died and another was seriously injured in the incident in the South Island city of Nelson.

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.