US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen representative Elise Stefanik to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations. In a statement announcing his choice, Mr Trump said: “Elise is an incredibly ...

Tributes have been paid to a composer from Hampstead who wrote songs for the likes of Elvis Presley. Ken Howard died suddenly at his home in Arkwright Road aged 84. Ken and his school friend Alan ...

CCTV footage has revealed the journey Daniel Khalife took around west London after he escaped from HMP Wandsworth by strapping himself to the underside of a food delivery lorry. The former soldier ...

Former soldier Daniel Khalife has pleaded guilty partway through his trial at Woolwich Crown Court to escaping from HMP Wandsworth.

Vivek Gurav says he is behind the world’s largest plogging community – which involves litter picking and jogging.

Research shows that over the past 40 years, butterflies traditionally found in England and Wales have become more common in Scotland.

Sixth-form college students in England could face walkouts after members of a teaching union voted in favour of strikes in a dispute over pay and funding. Members of the National Education Union (NEU) ...

Conservative leader and former business secretary Kemi Badenoch has told the Horizon IT inquiry the government allowed “bureaucracy to get in the way of redress” for wronged subpostmasters. Ms ...

Animals at London Zoo tucked into fresh fruit and vegetables from New Covent Garden Market to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the wholesale site. Gorillas Alika, Effie and baby Venus, and Amara the ...

The adult male was found on November 1 on a popular tourist beach in the town of Denmark in temperate south-west Australia — about 2,200 miles north of the icy waters off the Antarctic coast, ...

The WMO said that while long-term warming measured over decades remains below 1.5C, the past 10 years are the warmest on record, ocean heat reached new records in 2023, sea-level rise is accelerating, ...

A woman who was abused as a teenager by one of the world’s most prolific catfish abusers has described her anger that he used her photograph to lure other victims. Alexander McCartney, from Newry in ...