Pope Francis has ushered in 2025 with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death. The ...

A pensioner was killed in a hit-and-run crash on New Year’s Eve. A 70-year-old woman, who was a pedestrian, was struck by a car in Paisley, Renfrewshire, and died at the scene around 7pm on Tuesday.

Seven people were killed in the Jabaliya area, a woman and child died in the Bureij refugee camp, and three people were ...

The PA news agency’s photographers provided unrivalled coverage of the world of politics this year as these first rate images show.

On Wednesday morning 132 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, were in place for England, 10 for Wales and 32 for Scotland.

Police were called following reports of a vehicle crashing into a pedestrian in north London on Wednesday morning.

Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”. The Met Office’s yellow warning that ...

A total of 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats during 2024, according to provisional figures from ...

The Olympic star shared the news in a video on Instagram showing her two sons, seven-year-old Albie and one-year-old Monty, wearing T-shirts declaring they are going to be big brothers before ...

THE Aurora Borealis have stunned the nation this year, with dazzling light displays being visible as far south as Dorset, Essex, Cambridgeshire ...

A software engineer has completed his year-long challenge of doing 300 press-ups every day in memory of his mother who had multiple sclerosis (MS), raising more than £10,000 for charity.

The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats.