Around one million users signed up for social media site Bluesky in the week following Donald Trump’s election win – but what is it? Here, the PA news agency explains how the social media platform ...

Parts of the UK are set for “a messy mixture of rain, sleet and snow” next week, forecasters have said. The Met Office said it was too early to tell where the wintry weather might hit, with computer ...

California has seen its share of bears breaking into cars – but bears caught on camera entering luxury cars tipped off ...

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, his wife Beinash Batool, 30, and brother Faisal Malik, 29, are accused of being party to years of abuse.

The former universities minister says it was an ‘abdication of responsibility by recent governments’ to not take action sooner over fees.

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has denied multiple sex attacks on a woman and a teenage girl. On Thursday, the 49-year-old pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape, one count of ...

Sara Sharif’s father had no answer as to how his daughter and another child suffered similar domestic iron burns and human bites, despite being the “common denominator”. For more than a week in the ...

Daniel Khalife was taken on a month-long trip to Iran to bring him “down to earth” when he was a badly behaved teenager, a court has heard. The 23-year-old, who joined the Army to escape his “very ...

A tartan designed at the King’s request, which will be used at Balmoral, has been lodged with the Scottish Register of Tartans. The Balmoral Glen Gelder tartan, designed by the Scottish Tartans ...

US police officers jumped into a swimming pool to save an Arizona man trapped in his submerged car after he accidentally drove into the water. A Phoenix Police Department spokesperson said the man ...

Long A&E waits in England have soared, new figures show, as NHS leaders warned that the service is heading for winter under “more pressure than ever before”. Performance against key targets fell short ...

Illegal mining remains common in South Africa’s old gold-mining areas, with miners going into closed shafts to dig for any remaining deposits.