The UK blue chip share index stood 0.4 higher soon after opening on Wednesday as hopes of a ceasefire in Ukraine boosted investor sentiment.

The container ship Solong struck US oil tanker Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday morning.

The recovery of the Pope from double pneumonia continues as he inches towards some important milestones in his papacy: the 12th anniversary of his election as pope and a near-record in hospital stays ...

Edinburgh Castle, which appears as a backdrop in Netflix’s version of One Day, remained in the top spot as Scotland’s most popular paid-for attraction, with visitor numbers rising 4% to 1,981,152 in ...

Ladi Anzaki Olubunmi, a content moderator for TikTok employed by the subcontractor Teleperformance Kenya, died last week, with her body only discovered in her house after three days. It is unclear ...

Port state control inspection documents from July last year show Irish officials found 10 deficiencies with Solong.

The son of prominent Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai has called for his father’s release in a high-profile national security case. Sebastien Lai told reporters in Washington that the prison conditions ...

Nearly 40,000 child sexual abuse offences were committed by children in the space of a year, a new report has found. Analysis of data from 44 police forces in England and Wales found that in total 115 ...

The Gym Group’s membership numbers ticked up nearer to one million as it swung back to a profit last year and geared up to open up to 16 new sites in the coming 12 months. The company said average ...

The Prime Minister joined America in urging Vladimir Putin to now agree to the ceasefire, as he insisted the ‘ball is now in ...

A bus lost control and flipped on a highway near Johannesburg’s international airport early on Tuesday, killing 16 people as ...

A top Romanian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by far-right politician Calin Georgescu to lift a ban on his candidacy in ...