News

The prisons watchdog has said it will keep a close eye on criminals released early from jail under a government scheme, amid concerns that rapists could be among them.

Cuba has suffered a nationwide blackout after the country's national electricity grid collapsed.

Cuba has suffered a nationwide blackout after the country's electricity grid collapsed.

Charlie Kirk's widow came face-to-face with her husband's alleged murderer in court for the first time, as prosecutors call for the man accused of killing the right-wing influencer to stand trial.

British wildcard Arthur Fery has staged a second consecutive fightback to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals.

The prisons watchdog has said it will keep a close eye on criminals released early from jail under a government scheme, amid concerns that rapists could be among them.

French president Emmanuel Macron has become the first major western leader to visit Syria since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.

The Princess of Wales talked dinosaurs and blew a kiss to a little boy with a rare vein condition during a visit to a hospital in London.

The coach of former Sheffield United player Maddy Cusack called her a liar in an account to the Football Association (FA) after her death, an inquest has heard.

Two drill rappers have been found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old man, in an escalation of a gang dispute that began on social media.

A stalker whose decade-long campaign against James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli led to her selling her home has been handed an indefinite hospital order.

A probe has been launched into the care of a man arrested after a three-year-old boy was allegedly thrown into a zoo's crocodile enclosure.

Women with suspected endometriosis will be able to get a much quicker diagnosis with new tests at their GP surgery - rather than take the "best part of a decade" for the condition to be detected.

A murderer gave police a map showing where he buried the dismembered body of the woman he killed, a court has heard.

An arsonist who murdered a pensioner by setting a wheelie bin on fire, engulfing the victim's home and leaving two other family members in a coma in a "living nightmare" attack has been jailed for at least 25 years.

The King took a ride in a British Army tank during his first visit to the Royal Tank Regiment (TRT) since ascending to the throne.

A Russian spy plane dropped tens of sonar devices in the path of the UK's flagship aircraft carrier in a suspected attempt to harass the warship that prompted RAF fighter jets to scramble.

A new pill version of a popular weight loss drug, available in the UK for the first time this week, could be faked and sold on the black market, experts have warned.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as wildfires burn through large areas of southern Europe, including in popular holiday destinations.

A 14-year-old girl who was found dead in a south Wales park is believed to have died from multiple stab wounds, an inquest has heard.