A train going from Colchester Town to London Liverpool Street has been stopped after the emergency alarm was activated at Kelvedon.

Israel has released 110 Palestinian prisoners after eight hostages in the Gaza Strip were freed by Hamas-led militants earlier in the day. It was a sometimes chaotic process that briefly called the ...

Joe Saumarez Smith has stood down from his role as chair of the British Horseracing Authority with immediate effect due to deteriorating health.

No cuts will be made to neighbourhood policing despite a “stretch in the system”, the chief of the Metropolitan Police has confirmed. Sir Mark Rowley, who heads the country’s largest police force, has ...

The former head of a South African arts festival has been appointed chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Tony Lankester joins the society from Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, ...

Mr Trump blamed previous administrations’ efforts to promote diversity at federal agencies for contributing to the crash.

The 45-year-old and his partner Gemma Watts, 49, have admitted murder and perverting the course of justice by dismembering Ms Mayhew’s body, distributing the parts at “various locations” and cleaning ...

Ireland interim boss Simon Easterby expects Sam Prendergast and Jack Crowley to be long-term rivals for the team’s number 10 jersey but insists the former is the “right man” to start against England.

A man whose father, brother and sister died “in dreadful circumstances” has told MPs their sympathy “only goes so far” as he urged them to get on with the process to legalise assisted dying.

City will face one of those two European heavyweights in the Champions League next month after scraping through to the play-off round on Wednesday.

The 34-year-old Edinburgh forward’s Test career appeared to be over after he was not selected for a single squad last year.

Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon has said the UK media industry must avoid becoming an “American news swamp” where young people get their news from unregulated platforms such as social media.