Ri Ri and Shin Shin made their final public appearance at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo on Saturday before returning to China for medical treatment.

The star of screen and stage, who died in hospital on Friday aged 89, portrayed Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham in the hit ITV drama.

Fierce winds almost unseated him and the sea nearly swept his tent away but nothing could stop a university student from cycling the entire length of Norway for charity. Ed Watson, a medical student ...

NHS data shows that the proportion of women using the pill as their main form of contraception has dropped from 47 in 2012-13 to 27 in 2022-23.

Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical centre in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has killed at least eight people. The first strike killed one person and Russia attacked again while ...

Police have seized cocaine worth an estimated £600,000 after a car was searched. Officers stopped a vehicle on the A702 in Abington, Lanarkshire on Friday afternoon, with the drugs found when they ...

Strictly Come Dancing’s professional dancers and judges will perform an “avant-garde gothic tango” on the first results show of the 2024 series. They will dance to Prince’s When Doves Cry and New ...

The Israeli military has said they killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hezbollah militant political group, in an air ...

University students are urged by health officials to use condoms when having sex amid high rates of gonorrhoea and syphilis among young people.

Strictly Come Dancing star Gorka Marquez was quick to apologise to Gemma Atkinson after making a comment on a BBC show.

Airstrikes overnight have further dampened hopes of a ceasefire in the region and raised concerns that a regional war could break out.

Israeli military carried out several strikes on targets in southern Beirut, including Hezbollah’s headquarters.