The first penguin chicks of the current breeding season have hatched at Edinburgh Zoo. Five endangered Northern rockhopper chicks and 10 gentoo chicks have hatched so far and it is hoped more will be ...

Russia is pressing hard in parts of eastern Ukraine in an effort to drive deeper into the Donetsk region, which it partly ...

The UK economy rebounded out of recession with faster-than-expected growth over the first quarter of 2024, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic product ...

More babies will die from whooping cough unless vaccination rates go up to slow the spread of the infection, a leading expert has warned.

Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has said that independence can be delivered within five years “because the arguments for it are compelling”. Mr Swinney told Sky News that independence was the ...

Donald Trump’s defence lawyers have grilled Stormy Daniels on the transaction at the centre of the former president’s hush ...

Analysis by the Institute for Government came after the Prime Minister pledged to cut Civil Service jobs to pay for an increase in defence spending.

British author and journalist Dame Shirley Conran has died aged 91. Her son, the designer Jasper Conran, wrote on Instagram on Thursday: “Shirl girl has flown away, a lark ascending.” ...

Sir Keir Starmer declined to commit to “stopping the boats” as he set out his party’s plans to tackle cross-Channel migration. The Labour leader said crossings needed to be reduced “materially” and he ...

Lando Norris believes McLaren will “100 per cent” be title contenders next season and predicts plenty more excitement for the rest of 2024.

The plans would have seen at least 10,000 properties in one area switch from gas boilers to hydrogen heating by the end of the decade.

An investigation is under way after a case of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, was confirmed on a farm in Ayrshire. Restrictions on movement have been imposed at the farm where the case of ...