Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning, signalling a new pope has yet to be chosen. Cardinals resumed their voting in the secret conclave, having already failed to choose a ...

Higher education institutions have announced redundancies and course closures over the past year as a result of growing financial pressures.

Donald Trump said the announcement would be ‘very big’ while Sir Keir Starmer insisted he would act in the national interest.

The 80th anniversary of VE Day is being marked with events across Northern Ireland. Secretary of State Hilary Benn described an opportunity to remember the “huge sacrifice made by that great ...

An art dealer has been charged with offences relating to terrorist financing. Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, faces eight counts of failing to make a disclosure during the course of business within the ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah were among seven people who died when the yacht sank on August 19.

India’s Defence Ministry said it targeted air defence systems in several locations in Pakistan, but did not say whether it ...

The online encyclopaedia says the new safety rules could threaten its approach to presenting neutral and reliable information.

John Swinney is the “best politician in Scotland”, SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has insisted, as he dismissed speculation over his own leadership ambitions. The MP is to stand for Holyrood in ...

New Zealand is still one of a few countries in the world where sheep outnumber people, but the human population is catching up, according to official figures. The vast number of sheep in New Zealand ...