Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American Pope, has said his election was both a cross and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel. Leo spoke off-the-cuff in English to the ...

Xabi Alonso will step down as head coach of Bayer Leverkusen at the end of the season, the German club have announced. Alonso has been heavily linked with the Real Madrid head coach position after a ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first ever from North America and the US president has said he looks forward to meeting him.

The theft caused shockwaves in Romania, where the artefacts have ‘a strong emotional and symbolic impact on society’.

Victory Day is one of the country’s biggest secular holidays, commemorating the 27 million Russians lost in the war.

Workers celebrated and waved flags to mark the end of more than 650 days of work by TBM Mary Ann to link Water Orton in Warwickshire with Birmingham.

Busted singer Matt Willis has revealed his band rejected an offer to compete for the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. The 42-year-old claimed McFly were also asked after his own pop punk band turned ...

Around one in 30 used cars bought in the UK during the first three months of the year were electric, new figures show. Some 65,850 battery electric cars changed hands between January and March, the ...

A detective inspector was assigned to lead the investigation, despite criminal damage usually being categorised as a more minor crime. Indeed, when the case came to trial, the Crown Prosecution ...

Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne’s Let The Right One In play has seen its UK tour cancelled due to “unforeseen circumstances”.

The death of a British bomb disposal expert who was killed while clearing landmines has prompted an “emotional” outpouring from communities in Ukraine, his friend and colleague has said.

A survivor of the Nottingham attacks has told how she wishes the killer had taken her instead of the two young students who “had their lives ahead of them”. Sharon Miller was walking to work on the ...