A VAN driver was on his phone behind the wheel when he knocked down an 88-year-old man with a walking stick on a zebra crossing, the Magistrate’s Court has heard. Filipe Joao Oliveira Ferreira ...

US vice president JD Vance will embark on a four-day visit to India on Monday as the two countries seek to unlock economic opportunities and negotiate a bilateral trade deal. Mr Vance will meet prime ...

OLD people often complain that the younger generation “don’t know they’re born” – whatever on earth that means. But ...

The King and Queen are set to attend an Easter Sunday service with other members of the royal family. However, the Prince and Princess of Wales will not be at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, as ...

A dry and “pleasant” Easter Sunday for much of the UK will be followed by rain, the Met Office has forecast. The weather service said most of the country would see “some warm spells of sunshine” on ...

Opponents of US President Donald Trump’s administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the country on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation’s democratic ...

Three former senior advisers to US defence secretary Pete Hegseth decried on Saturday what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information ...

Emmanuel Macron will be granted a state visit before Donald Trump’s expected trip in September as Britain seeks closer ties with Europe, according to a report. The French President is said to have ...

An audience member on Britain’s Got Talent asked for an audition and received a Golden Buzzer from one of the judges. Midway through one of the talent show auditions, a member of the audience, named ...

Ed Miliband has accused Nigel Farage of peddling “nonsense and lies” by appearing to blame the Government’s commitment to net zero for the crisis in the UK steel industry. The Energy Secretary said ...

In one small step for robot-kind – thousands of them, really – humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital Beijing on Saturday. The bipedal robots of various ...

Ukraine said it would reciprocate any genuine ceasefire by Moscow but voiced scepticism after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary Easter truce in Ukraine starting on Saturday. The ...