Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

A boy has been stabbed in the middle of the afternoon in south-east London. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the scene in Broadway, Bexleyheath, at 3.31pm on Thursday and found the boy, who ...

Troops appear to have run across him in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel ...

Former One Direction member Liam Payne died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage”, as a result of a fall from the balcony of a hotel’s third-floor, a post-mortem examination ...

Line manager Eirian Powell told the inquiry into nurse Lucy Letby’s crimes that there was ‘no evidence of any wrongdoing’ after three ...

Israel’s foreign minister has confirmed that Israeli troops in Gaza have killed Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war.

The number of people dying in or after police custody in England and Wales has been described as “extremely concerning” as figures show more than half had mental health problems. The Independent ...

The Citroen van remains stuck in flooded Shell Ford off Earls Common Road near Himbleton, north of Worcester after heavy rain caused the waters of the brook to swell. A woman at the scene said drivers ...

A man and two women have been remanded in custody over the death of a 23-month-old child in Co Tyrone. Tavia Da Costa is believed to have died on Sunday just weeks before her second birthday.

Officers would like to speak with this man to help with their enquiries into violent disorder on Worcester Road in Malvern.

The Social Security Advisory Committee admonished the Government for not providing an impact assessment of its plan to scrap the universal payment.

Her entertainment career spanned eight decades across film, TV and the stage, but she is best remembered for her turn in 1958 film South Pacific.