Despite the declaration of an Easter ceasefire on Saturday, Ukrainian forces have recorded 59 instances of Russian shelling.

The bank holiday weekend will end with cloud and rain for much of the UK, the Met Office has forecast. The weather service said that Monday would be “rather cloudy with rain continuing eastwards, ...

Gatwick, which is the UK’s second busiest airport, was badly affected by ATC staff shortages across continental Europe in ...

Scottish Water staff will stage a two-day strike from midnight amid a continued dispute over pay. Workers will walk out on Tuesday and Wednesday following a one-day strike last month. Unison, which ...

The Orkney Native Wildlife Project began removing stoats in 2019 and the latest survey, which covered 100 sites and recorded pairs of wading birds per square kilometre, showed a modest recovery since ...

A huge fire has broken out at a flat building in east London, with 100 firefighters tackling the blaze. Footage showed flames engulfing two different flats on Leman Street in Aldgate, with smoke seen ...

Bedford Blues won a thriller at Ealing Trailfinders as the top two went head-to-head on Easter Saturday. Blues triumphed 30-24 in the capital while Hartpury beat Coventry to leapfrog their visitors ...

US vice president JD Vance met Pope Francis briefly on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration’s migrant deportation plans.

Francis did not celebrate Easter Mass in the piazza, delegating it to Cardinal Angelo Comastri, the retired archpriest of St Peter’s Basilica.

The Scottish First Minister said Nigel Farage’s party was contributing to the undermining of ‘some of the central values of our society’.

The Pope toured St Peter’s Square in his popemobile on Sunday, as Christians worldwide lit candles and celebrated Easter.