Prime Minister Alexander De Croo’s speech was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trip.

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 ...

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 ...

A jury has begin deliberating on verdicts in the trial of a youth accused of killing a 16-year-old boy in London’s Primrose Hill last New Year’s Eve. The 17-year-old fatally stabbed Harry Pitman in ...

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

WESTONZOYLAND’S representative on Somerset Council has raised concerns on behalf of the Parish Council regarding ongoing enforcement issues at the Towens Recycled Aggregates site. Councillor Diogo ...

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.

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

New York City’s embattled and indicted mayor Eric Adams has arrived at a federal courthouse to be arraigned on charges that he accepted illegal campaign contributions and free overseas trips from ...

Actress Dame Maggie Smith has died at the age of 89. A statement issued via her publicist says: "It is with great sadness we have to announce the death of Dame Maggie Smith. “She passed away ...

Michael Mosley, who hosted BBC Radio 4 podcast Just One Thing was honoured with the Hall of Fame Award at the British Podcast Awards.

Oscar-winning actress Dame Maggie Smith has died in hospital aged 89. Her sons Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens said she died in hospital on Friday morning. They said in a statement: “An intensely ...