During her career, actor Dame Maggie Smith shone in roles as varied as a maverick schoolteacher, a witch in the Harry Potter film series, and Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess of Grantham, a part which ...

A murder-accused father deliberately drove into a motorcyclist who was in a high-speed chase with his son, causing brain damage and a severed spinal cord, a court has heard.

Marten van Riel says he feels refreshed by the prospect of T100 glory and a longer race distance which he believes plays to his strengths ...

Joseph Eubank has been cleared of raping a teenage girl on Brighton beach. Mr Eubank, 27, of Hove, East Sussex, was acquitted of two counts of rape of a 16-year-old girl by a jury after several hours ...

World Rugby and Gilbert have unveiled the official ball for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, exactly one year before the tournament’s ...

Dame Maggie Smith won a best actress Oscar in 1970 but found an even wider profile in the last years of her career.

Dr Anthony Hemsley said he believed NHS England was not carrying out ‘any active work on this at the current time’ to address the issue.

A new era has begun for French women’s rugby with a player-led call to expand the national team’s leadership group ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his nation’s response to the October 7 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel.

Lucy Dinnen’s path to an Australia cap has been slowed by army commitments, malaria, Covid postponements and even a pregnancy but after 10 ...

Clifford Cowen, of Kensington Park Gardens, Notting Hill, west London, is accused of murdering of Rita Fleming.

Manchester City midfielder Rodri has been ruled out for the rest of the season, manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed. The club have now learned the influential Spain international suffered anterior ...