The captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned as cruel and disrespectful.

The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope on Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a ...

Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov and Eliya Cohen were brought out by masked, armed Hamas fighters to pose on a stage.

On this day February22 in 1966, Roderic Norman Coote was officially appointed as the new Bishop of Colchester during an investiture ceremony at Lambeth Palace, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Thieves in France used a stolen bank card to buy a winning lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros (£414,000). But they vanished before cashing in – and now they are among the country’s most famous ...

The M25 anticlockwise exit slip at Junction 27 (Stansted/M11) remains closed due to a police incident, with all lanes currently shut.

Roz Foyer, of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, made the plea as she addressed the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow on Saturday.

Police said ‘new information’ led them to arrest two men and a woman on suspicion of murdering Robert Scott Clive who disappeared in ...

The Prime Minister insisted Kyiv’s voice must be at the heart of any peace negotiations in a call on Saturday.

Specialist drones have been used in the major search for a young runner who has been missing for four days. Jenny Hall, 23, was last seen leaving her home in Tow Law, County Durham, just after 3pm on ...

The United States has proposed a draft United Nations resolution that stops far short of a competing European-backed ...