Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, is celebrating his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel. Cardinals elected the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost to succeed ...

HALF of Scotland's rivers have been moved to Alert status for water scarcity. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has published its latest water situation report. The report reflects the ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have attended the event alongside Vladimir Putin.

Darren Jones was resolute about the need for the deal, as he faced suggestions the UK still remained in a worse situation than before tariffs began.

Pope Leo will have the challenge of following in the footsteps of the late Francis, whose popularity saw him dubbed ‘the ...

An Irish footballer has broken the Guinness World Record for farthest distance a football has been thrown by a woman, sending ...

Veterans and their families marked 80 years since VE Day at a tea party hosted by the Royal British Legion in Staffordshire ...

American commerce secretary Howard Lutnick had teased the deal on Thursday after the US and the UK struck the ‘historic’ accord.

Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged heavy volleys of shells and gunfire across their frontier in Kashmir overnight, killing at least five civilians amid a growing military standoff that erupted ...

Leo, a 69-year-old Chicago-born Augustinian missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, wore the traditional red cape – which Pope ...

Psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, one of the seven healthcare professionals on trial accused of negligence in the death of Diego Maradona, testified she does not regret the treatment she provided to the ...

In an interview with the BBC, the Bank’s chief suggested that the UK-US trade deal secured on Thursday could set an example globally.