Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announced she is prepared to support the expansion of Gatwick airport if the project is adjusted.

Taylor Swift has returned to the top of the UK albums chart with her latest LP The Tortured Poets Department, the Official Charts Company has confirmed.

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has praised Pope Francis’s “unwavering commitment to justice and peace”. Ms O’Neill has confirmed she will travel to Rome to join leaders from across ...

Lucinda Collins ploughed through a junction after being told on a call to her mother that her father was dying.

Paul Antony Butler, 53, stabbed university lecturer Claire Chick, 48, in a frenzied attack outside her home in Plymouth in January this year ...

A woman who stabbed a man to death in a racist and unprovoked attack had asked her care worker that she be sent back to hospital minutes before the killing. Hubert “Isaac” Brown, 61, was sitting on a ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) has said its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly eight-week blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in ...

Some 150,000 people have passed by Francis’s coffin over the past three days as he lay in state in St Peter’s Basilica.

Syria’s foreign minister has attended a UN Security Council briefing after raising his country’s new flag at the international body’s headquarters. It was the first public appearance by a high-ranking ...

Kemi Badeoch has said that the Conservatives will not do a deal with Reform as she brushed off talk of “stitch ups before an election”.

A woman who accused a former contestant on Britain’s Got Talent of raping her said she stayed the night after the alleged incident as she “felt frozen”.