Japan’s parliament has formally elected Shigeru Ishiba, head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, as the country’s new ...

A gun shot has reportedly been fired at the window of a black taxi on a busy street in central London. The incident allegedly happened in Dean Street, Soho near Oxford Street at 10.10am today (October ...

One of Nato’s longest serving top officials, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, stepped down on Tuesday, handing the reins ...

USA captain Kate Zackary is confident her side can build on plenty of positives from defeat to England in their opening WXV 1 match in Vancouver.

Here is a list of the estimated proportion of the adult population who are current smokers in each local authority in the UK. All the figures are five-year averages covering the period 2019-23. This ...

The pop group won the 1976 contest with the song Save Your Kisses For Me at the final in The Hague, in the Netherlands.

Gaëlle Mignot lamented a lack of fight as France suffered a 46-24 defeat to hosts Canada in their WXV 1 opener.

Kevin Rouet says Canada are refusing to get carried away after climbing to second in the world rankings with a 46-24 victory over France in ...

The annual Winter Fuel Payment of between £100 and £300 was introduced in 1997 to help eligible pensioners meet the costs of heating their homes ...

The DVLA has launched a new service update that allows motorists to tax their vehicle even if they have lost their V5C ...

A planet has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have been able to see the exoplanet – ...

The ONS said Wales had a higher proportion of centenarians than in England, with 26 people aged 100 and over per 100,000 population compared with 24 in England. Some 9.7% of those aged 100 and over ...