A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles above Mercury’s night side before ...

The US president was scheduled to leave for Italy after giving the eulogy for former president Jimmy Carter at his funeral in ...

Bar manager Jason Pegg admits the fun pledge to reward a winning goalscorer is a ‘big ask’ but says anything is possible in football.

The Deputy Prime Minister suggested the billionaire should be ‘correcting the record as soon as possible’ over information shared on his ...

Conservative Ben Obese-Jecty called for a ban on people convicted of violence against women from running for Parliament, referring to ...

The Government has said there is “no need for an emergency intervention” as it sought to soothe concerns over the UK’s shaky financial markets. On Thursday, the value of the pound fell to its lowest ...

Scottish Labour abstaining in the vote on the Scottish Government’s Budget amounts to the “cheapest” deal on the tax and spending plans since devolution, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives has ...

Irish leaders have indicated they are content with the handling of recent weather as the end of the cold snap is in sight. Temperatures in parts of Ireland plunged to minus 7.5C in the early hours of ...

Members of the National Education Union will be asked if they would be willing to take industrial action over the Government’s proposed pay offer.

A motorist has been caught driving with their head out of the window “Ace Ventura-style” because the car’s windscreen was blocked by snow. Merseyside Police said this is “simply not acceptable” and ...

A “popular, well-liked” teenager was fatally stabbed near a bus station in a town centre, police have said. Thomas Taylor, 17, was attacked by a group of males at 5.50pm on Wednesday as he walked ...

A judge at the New York Court of Appeals issued a brief order declining to grant a hearing to the US president-elect’s legal team.