A loud bang, a burst of red, white and blue confetti and lots of cheering marked the start of the rain-soaked and delayed London New Year’s Day Parade. Hundreds of umbrellas went up at the time the ...

A LOCAL resident called on the council to share its plans for the footpath/cycleway at Penarth Heights. A significant landslip occurred directly below the Crest Nicholson site on the escarpment in ...

In another New Year staple, darts fans again flocked to London’s Alexandra Palace, many in costume, to see what the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune would bring in 2025.

A software engineer has completed his year-long challenge of doing 300 press-ups every day in memory of his mother who had ...

He was the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country’s second president after the restoration of independence.

In Berlin, 30 police officers and one firefighter were injured in confrontations or attacks, leading to 400 arrests, city officials said.

The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats.

A 17-year-old is fighting for his life in hospital after a stabbing in south London on New Year’s Day. The Metropolitan Police said they were informed by the London Ambulance Service of a stabbing at ...

Ten people were killed and 30 others injured when a vehicle drove into a crowd in New Orleans, according to city officials. The incident happened in the city’s popular Bourbon Street area. Police ...

Sailors of the Royal Navy were recalled to HMS Somerset (right) to shadow Russian corvette RFS Soobrazitelny (left) and ro-ro transporter/support ship MV Sparta II (centre) for 500 miles in the North ...

Energy minister Herman Halushchenko confirmed on Wednesday that Kyiv had stopped the gas flows ‘in the interest of national security’.

Seven people were killed in the Jabaliya area, a woman and child died in the Bureij refugee camp, and three people were killed in Khan Younis.