The number of migrants arriving in the UK in 2024 after crossing the English Channel in small boats was up by a quarter on the previous year, figures show. Some 36,816 people made the journey in 2024, ...

Harry Chandler, a US Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbour after Japan’s attack on the naval base in 1941, has died at the age of 103. He died at a senior ...

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.

Only two of the 181 people on board the Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air survived when it crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday.

Israeli strikes have killed at least nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, officials said on Wednesday, as the nearly 15-month war ground on into the new year with no end in ...

The year is set to see bands reunite, music titans releasing new music and major artists being taken to court.

From Sydney to Mumbai to Nairobi, communities around the world have welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. The New Year’s Eve ball dropped in soggy Times Square, where ...

Foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland have expressed concern about “the political crisis” in Georgia, two days after former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili was formally inaugurated as ...

North-West England was bearing the brunt of the rain with an amber weather warning in place on Wednesday morning.

Actor Blake Lively has sued It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni and several others tied to the romantic drama, alleging harassment and a co-ordinated campaign to attack her reputation for coming ...

By spring 2025, TfL is expected to present its outline business case for a planned DLR extension to Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead. This would precede discussions about how to fund the plans. Bus ...

I enjoyed a four-course Indian feast at Bombay Bustle, where the restaurant is themed around winter train carriages.