Some 250,000 mourners paid their respects to Pope Francis over a three-day lying-in-state, the Vatican said on the eve of his funeral. World leaders and dignitaries were arriving in Rome on Friday, to ...

London Gatwick has said it is ready to accept tougher limits on aircraft noise and public transport needs in an effort to get the green light for its expansion plans. It comes after Transport ...

Rachel Reeves has met her American counterpart as the UK and US seek to hammer out a trade deal. The Chancellor met US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent on Friday afternoon, after having claimed ...

Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson as prosecutors in the US formally declared their intent to seek the ...

Pope Francis’s funeral will be “a symbol of his humility”, the head of a Catholic aid organisation has said. Thousands of people are expected to gather ahead of Saturday’s funeral to bid a final ...

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 ...

A “distracted” dentist who was told while she was driving that her father was dying, and then ploughed through a road junction killing a pensioner, has avoided a jail sentence. Lucinda Collins was on ...

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. Swift’s 11th studio album, returned to the peak ...

OK, I think it’s time a few things were cleared up. Considering the rumours flying through the Island at present, it’s clear ...

West Midlands Fire Service is urging Birmingham residents not to burn their household recycling as the city’s bin strike rumbles on. A person had to be given oxygen by fire crews and paramedics after ...

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 ...

Two men have been jailed after attempting to smuggle up to £1.5 million of cannabis into the UK inside crates of watermelons in a lorry. Prosecutors said Scott McSeveney, 37, masterminded the plan to ...