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 ...

Syria’s interim president signed a temporary constitution on Thursday that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...

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 ...

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 ...

Craig Haggie, 36, had time to kill after ordering his burger and went to a Spar shop to buy a drink and two scratchcards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...