The Home Office spent £15 million buying a derelict prison contaminated with asbestos amid political pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog. The ...

The winter refit of the iconic PS Waverley paddle steamer is well underway in Glasgow after a busy year of sailings on the Clyde.

Davina McCall has said she is to undergo brain surgery, after being diagnosed with a “very rare” tumour. The TV presenter, 57, said the benign brain tumour, known as a colloid cyst, was found after ...

The knife handle figure, discovered in the River Tyne near Corbridge in Northumberland, is thought to have been bought as a souvenir.

This is your last chance to see a Supermoon this year! 🌕 The next full Moon will occur on Nov. 15, starting at 4:29 p.m. EST. A “supermoon” appears bigger and brighter than usual due to its close ...

Donald Trump met on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago club with Argentina’s President Javier Milei, the first foreign leader to meet with the president-elect since his victory in last week’s election. The ...

UK economic growth slowed between July and September relative to the previous quarter, according to official data, in a blow to Chancellor Rachel Reeves. The economy grew by 0.1% over the period, ...

Tropical Storm Sara made landfall in northern Honduras late on Thursday local time and threatened to dump torrential rains across parts of Central America and southern Mexico.

Rachel Reeves has told City chiefs she plans to create pension “megafunds” that will “power growth” in the economy and reward British savers. In her first Mansion House speech as Chancellor, Ms Reeves ...

Shel Talmy, who produced early music for British bands The Who and The Kinks, has died at the age of 87. The US record producer “died peacefully in his sleep” at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday ...

A 17-year-old girl who died after fleeing a police vehicle and being struck by a car on the M5 motorway has been named. Tamzin Hall, from Wellington, was being transported to a custody suite in ...

The women told the BBC that Salah Fayed abused them in London, the south of France and Monaco between 1989 and 1997.