Ceremonies have been held at venues across the UK and Ireland to mark the winter solstice. December 21 is the shortest day and longest night of the year, with London experiencing seven hours and 49 ...

Roads and public transport could be disrupted by strong gusts after the Met Office announced yellow warnings for parts of the country.

Pope Francis has told Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another as he used his annual Christmas greetings to ...

Ferries have been cancelled and train services impacted as high winds hit Scotland’s Christmas getaway. Festive travellers are having to contend with weather warnings for high wind which have come ...

Outnumbered is returning to the BBC with a Christmas special, eight years after its last episode. Of course the children have grown up a lot since then and viewers will look forward to seeing what ...

Thousands of people greeted the dawn with cheers and applause at Stonehenge as they marked the winter solstice. Those who observed the spectacle on Saturday at the neolithic monument in Wiltshire ...

Questions have been raised about one of the UK’s most well-known fertility doctors after two people whose parents attended his clinic reportedly made the shock discovery that their biological father ...

THE BBC’s coverage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “frankly despicable”. The person I’m quoting here is a BBC journalist, one of ...

Ipswich Town released a statement explaining that Sam Morsy had refused to wear a rainbow armband due to “religious reasons”.

The death toll following an attack on a German Christmas market has risen to five, with more than 200 people injured. Chancellor Olaf Scholz said nearly 40 of those were “so seriously injured that we ...

The former Scottish justice secretary spoke out ahead of the trial in the US next year of Libyan Abu Agila Masud – who denies three charges.