Chart history has been made as 'Last Christmas' by Wham! has topped the festive charts for a second year in a row. Released in 1984, the festive classic had a 39-year wait to be crowned Christmas ...

In Scots, Auld Lang Syne means "for the sake of old times" or "time gone by" with a more literal translation of the poem reading: "old long since". The song describes a pair of friends reminiscing and ...

The downing of Pan Am Flight 103, on December 21 1988, remains the worst terrorist atrocity to have taken place on British soil.

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians, including four children, and injured 16 other people on Friday afternoon, health officials said. The ...

An Iranian officer blamed for the 2022 killing of an American in Iraq has been charged in New York with federal murder and terrorism crimes, authorities said. Federal authorities in New York City said ...

Sir Bill Beaumont has been appointed Rugby Football Union chairman on an interim basis following the resignation of Tom Ilube. Ilube stepped down on Friday morning in response to the outcry over the ...

Hibernian striker Dwight Gayle reckons this season will be his last in professional football. “Yes, I’ve started to express my feelings,” the one-time EFL icon said. “My body’s starting to break down ...

The attack came hours after Ukrainian authorities said a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kyiv killed at least one person and wounded 13.

Mervyn Kersh arrived in Normandy aged 19, three days after the start of the D-Day invasion in June 1944, acting for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Rwanda discharged the last Marburg patient on November 8 and had reported no new confirmed cases since October 30. However, WHO officials and Rwanda’s health minister Dr Sabin Nzanzimana on Friday ...

The US military conducted airstrikes in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing a leader of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group and one other militant, US Central Command (Centcom) has said. The ...

A father who armed himself with a bat before deliberately driving into a motorcyclist who was involved in a high-speed chase with his son has been jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of ...