A heatwave gripping parts of Europe sent temperatures over 40C in southern France and the Western Balkans on Monday, fuelling wildfires, triggering top-level weather alerts and forcing evacuations in ...

Footage shows diggers starting to remove a “disgusting” bank of wet wipes that has built up along the River Thames in west London as part of a first-of-its-kind clean-up project. Plastic waste has ...

The first-look deal, which means Netflix will have the first option on Harry and Meghan’s projects, was described by the Sussexes as “extending their creative partnership”. Meghan said: “We’re proud ...

The move is a part of a collaboration between Scotland’s universities to support the country’s drive to net zero.

John Young, 91, was deemed medically unfit to face criminal trial or appear in court but evidence was heard from 24 former pupils.

The Moomins, Finland’s most loveable literary cartoon family, are celebrating their 80th birthday this year. The chubby, white, hippopotamus-like characters have captivated readers worldwide since ...

A mother and her 15-month-old son died when their car was in collision with a school bus, a coroner has ruled. Sian Goffin, 31, who had taken cocaine, suffered fatal injuries in the collision in ...

Nicola Sturgeon has said getting her first tattoo was a “midlife crisis” move – but hinted she might get more in the future. The former Scottish first minister said the tattoo, inked on the inside of ...

Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, 25, died after falling down a crevasse on a glacier at Admiralty Bay on King George Island on July 26 1959.

Federal prosecutors had asked to unseal the documents in an effort to allay suspicions about what the government knew about Jeffrey Epstein.

The former first minister accused her predecessor of an ‘abdication of responsibility’ over the document, produced ahead of the 2014 referendum.

Downing Street said evidence and security assessments shared in closed court supported the group’s proscription.