A digital counter on the Reform website showed the membership ticking over the 131,680 of the Conservative Party before lunchtime on Boxing Day ...

Pope Francis has inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison, taking a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century celebration which is ...

The FSB said the suspected organisers of the attacks were planning to kill a senior defence official using a remotely controlled car bomb.

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are preparing for potentially devastating wildfires as a heatwave fanned by erratic winds presented the worst fire conditions ...

Boxing Day walkers and swimmers will see a grey and mild day with some drizzle in places, the Met Office has said. Temperatures on Thursday are expected to reach up to 14C with widely cloudy ...

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta believes Bukayo Saka’s absence will transform him into a better manager. The Gunners will begin a period of matches – which is likely to extend into double figures – without ...

It’s almost a tradition for Britons to talk about the weather – and there has been plenty to talk about in 2024, with climate change blamed for some very hot weather along with several storms. Here we ...

Azerbaijan observed a nationwide day of mourning on Thursday for the victims of a plane crash in which 38 people were killed and all 29 survivors injured as speculation mounted about the possible ...

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which ...

More than one in five people are being deterred from using buses by inadequate stops, a new survey suggests, sparking a call for a UK-wide standard to be introduced. Some 23% of people say they are ...

The rail industry produces a cancellations score – counting full cancellations as one and part-cancellations as half – which ...

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland. Dating back to the medieval period, the ecclesiastical register ...