Francis was elected on March 13 2013 as the 266th pontiff and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American choice.

Belgian federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the arrests of several people in a corruption probe linked to the European ...

Trials have taken place in London as supporters of the project seek to use an alternative to antidepressants to help people with mild symptoms.

Luke Littler earned bragging rights against his rival Luke Humphries by replacing him at the top of the Premier League table. World champion Littler beat the world number one in the opening ...

Stephen Ireland, 41, co-founder of Pride in Surrey, and David Sutton, 27, were accused of ‘targeting children for their sexual proclivities’.

Glover birdied the last four holes at TPC Sawgrass to card a six-under-par 66 and enjoy a two-shot lead over fellow Americans Alex Smalley and Bud Cauley, Germany’s Stephan Jaeger and England’s Aaron ...

Ben Lane and Sean Vendy were magnanimous in defeat after they lost in the second round of the YONEX All England Open Badminton Championships 2025.

Further races on Thursday also saw the starter intervene, with jockey Robert James suspended for two days after the stewards found he had not approached the tape at a walk or a jig-jog pace aboard ...

Tens of thousands of local government workers are considering strike action over a pay dispute, a union has announced. More than 70,000 local government workers, represented by Unison, are being ...

Staff at the hospital where killer nurse Lucy Letby worked could face gross negligence manslaughter charges, police have said. Cheshire Constabulary said suspects had been identified and notified in ...

Reform UK are “counting their chickens” ahead of the election in Scotland next year, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said. The Nigel Farage-led party has been surging in the polls in ...

NHS England is a public body delivering services with taxpayers’ money, which was set up to support and oversee NHS trusts and wider organisations to deliver healthcare. It has worked with the ...