Former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg has been sentenced to a community payback order after he admitted abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years. He pleaded guilty to a ...

Tesco is being urged to drop a trial involving Danone-funded midwives offering advice to customers on feeding infants. The midwives have been offered branded uniforms and undergone training by the ...

NHS leaders have warned that the peak of the flu cycle has not yet hit, with February and March potentially worse for the health service.

The prince issued rare written words expressing his love for the princess on the day she turned 43 after her cancer diagnosis last year.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) said capitalised major repairs – which include long-term refurbishments such as replacing a roof or stripping cladding from a building – rose by just under a ...

Eighteen assailants died and six were in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, after an attack on Chad’s presidential palace, state media have reported. The attack on Wednesday night ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, will be honoured on Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National ...

Head coach Jon Lewis insisted England would be ready for the start of the Women’s Ashes this weekend, despite their only warm-up game being abandoned. After several rain delays, the match against an ...

The National Gallery’s Van Gogh: Poets And Lovers exhibition is to open for 24 hours during its final weekend. The display has already become the third most popular paid exhibition in the London ...

Shamima Begum will not be returning to the UK, David Lammy said following calls from Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism chief for the repatriation of British members of so-called Islamic State ...

Mark Woolley died at HMP Wayland while serving his sentence for the murder of Elizabeth Sherlock at Euston Station.

Taiwan demonstrated its sea defences against a potential Chinese attack on Thursday as tensions rise with Beijing, part of a multi-tiered strategy to deter an invasion from the mainland.