Moscow has launched a massive missile barrage on Christmas Day, with the aim of crippling energy infrastructure sites across ...

The plane was originally scheduled to travel from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny.

The wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance of survival, media reports have claimed. Asma Assad is being isolated to prevent ...

The mildest start to Christmas Day on record has been recorded for Northern Ireland and Scotland. In Kinloss, Moray, temperatures reached 11.9C, while at Killowen, Co Down, it peaked at 11C for the 24 ...

The 25-year-old Love Island star split from fiance Tommy Fury, with whom she has a young daughter, earlier this year. In a YouTube vlog posted on Christmas Eve, she said: “I have found the last few ...

An 88-year-old great-grandmother still receives a Christmas card every year from the German pen pal she has been writing to ...

First to arrive was Theo James Sherwood Hunter, at the University Hospital of North Durham at 10.03am. Mum Maddison Hunter, 22, of Rushyford, underwent a Caesarian section to deliver her son, who ...

The King has used his Christmas address to pay tribute to the “selfless” doctors and nurses who provided “strength, care and comfort” during cancer treatment for himself and the Princess of Wales.

A man was taken to hospital with extensive ear injuries and a bite to his leg following a 'horrific' attack at the The Deck nightclub in ...

The students are demanding justice over the collapse of a concrete construction at a railway station that killed 15 people in November.

Israel and Hamas have accused each other of complicating ceasefire efforts as the two sides inch closer to a deal that could wind down the 14-month war in Gaza. The two sides appear closer than they ...

Swimmers take part in an early Christmas Day dip on Boscombe beach in Dorset (Andrew Matthews/PA) Some members of the Serpentine Swimming Club were in fancy dress for the Peter Pan Cup race, which is ...