Giving away the Indian Ocean archipelago to the east African nation will cost £35 billion, Whitehall estimates suggest ...

Biddy Baxter, the pioneering television producer who transformed Blue Peter into a national institution, has died aged 92, ...

The Hang Seng index is broadly unchanged while the Tokyo stock market is closed for a holiday. Brent Crude starts the week at $66.28 a barrel and the pound at $1.3467.

The former first minister of Scotland has recalled being hit by a ‘wave of grief’ after hearing of his death in October last ...

The Women’s Rugby World Cup is well and truly back for another edition. All eyes are on England, who are out for revenge ...

A casualty on the track in Watford is causing severe delays to National Rail, Overground and Tube services. National rail ...

A Metropolitan Police officer who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman while on holiday in Romania is set to appear in court.

Ministers are considering cutting the drink-drive limit in England and Wales and introducing mandatory eye tests for older ...

This summer, they have seen quite the overhaul of the squad, with star names such as Kevin de Bruyne and Kyle Walker ...

Four members of a British family killed in a head-on rental car crash in Portugal have been named and pictured. Twins ...