At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat with 278 passengers capsized on Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged to scrap the so-called bedroom tax at this month’s Budget. The SNP has pushed the Government to move on the issue, which sees cash deducted from benefits if the ...

Craig Russell had to have part of his skull rebuilt after surgery and said he is still recovering 18 months later.

Electricity is being slowly restored as the number of homes and businesses without power dipped below one million.

It is hoped that the world’s first vaccine for ovarian cancer could one day eliminate the disease. Here the PA news agency answers questions on what is known about the jab so far. – What is ovarian ...

Jurors deliberated for about six hours before coming back with mixed verdicts for Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith.

Israel has mostly concentrated its air strikes in south and eastern Lebanon, as well as the southern suburbs of Beirut where Hezbollah has a strong presence, but its attacks have spanned the entire ...

Old graves could be reused to help manage the shortage of burial space under proposals made by the Law Commission. The idea came as part of a public consultation to bring the laws around burial and ...

The former prime minister alleged that his security team had made the discovery when they did a sweep of the toilets in 2017.