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The waiting list for hospital treatment in England continues to rise, despite the NHS delivering record levels of care, figures suggest.

Russia’s public health watchdog has denied that a lab worker who died in Siberia had spread infection to another person, amid global concerns about suspected pneumonic plague.

Police-recorded hate crime in England and Wales has risen 7% year-on-year, including record highs in both those that were racially and religiously motivated.

The husband of a royal GP has appeared before a crown court charged with her murder after she was found dead at her home near the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.

Mia Goth has filed for divorce from Shia LaBeouf nearly 10 years after the two actors were married.

Dozens of students dragged rubbish bins into position outside a high school in north-eastern Paris early on Thursday, erecting fresh barricades before police moved in with tear gas as France’s nationwide protests show few signs of ending.

Manchester United midfielder Ella Toone has been called up to the England squad for their forthcoming World Cup play-off games with Greece.

MLS commissioner Don Garber would love Harry Kane to follow Lionel Messi across the pond and says the England skipper’s interest helps fulfil a dream that Sir David Beckham kept alive.

Fifty-seven small and medium-sized businesses in the north have secured more than £2.4 million through the Northern Ireland Small Business Loan Fund III since its launch in May 2025, new figures show.

One man has been arrested following an anti-immigration protest in Glasgow involving people wearing balaclavas.

A seven-storey building in Istanbul partially collapsed on Thursday, killing two people, officials said.

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The Derry-based Martin Property Group has completed the acquisition of the UK’s largest private car park operator out of administration.

Rescuers searched through the rubble of a residential building hit by a Russian missile in the northern Ukrainian town of Pryluky on Thursday as the death toll rose to 22, including five children, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

The owner of Just Eat Takeaway.com has hailed a return to order growth at the food delivery service for the first time in nearly five years as turnaround efforts pay off.

UK consumers will be keen to celebrate Christmas this year given an uncertain global environment but will likely opt for “marginally healthier” choices with less alcohol consumption, Tesco has said.

Ukraine’s advances in drone technology and tactics have captured the world’s attention.

Hear’Say and Liberty X are to reunite for a joint arena tour of the UK and Ireland as they commemorate 25 years since the groups were formed on TV talent show Popstars.

Simon Pegg has revealed he has been diagnosed with ADHD, which he said “confirmed a lot of stuff that I’d been wrestling with”.

Israel has said the UK’s consulate in East Jerusalem has “ceased to function” in retaliation for the Government’s trade ban with illegal West Bank settlements.

The UK has withdrawn staff and their families from its consulate in East Jerusalem after Israel said it would be closed in retaliation for the Government’s trade ban with illegal West Bank settlements.

A junction was closed as police dealt with an apparent anti-immigration protest in Glasgow involving people wearing balaclavas.

Tartan is difficult to escape come autumn.

MLS commissioner Don Garber would love Harry Kane to follow Lionel Messi across the pond and says the England skipper’s interest helps fulfil a dream that Sir David Beckham kept alive.

Mobile phone giant VodafoneThree has revealed plans to ramp up cost cutting in the UK to £1 billion by 2032 as it continues to make savings after last year’s mega merger.

Tesco has unveiled a jump in sales for the first half of the year amid an online shopping boost and raised its annual profit outlook, despite cautioning that economic uncertainty was weighing on consumer confidence.

Spooky season is a highlight on the holiday calendar, and with Halloween falling on a Saturday, trick-or-treaters can really take advantage of ghoulish goodies galore.

A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk was put to death on Wednesday evening, becoming the 30th person executed in the US this year and the first since Tennessee’s failed attempt to administer a lethal injection to Christa Pike a week ago.

Polls have opened in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election as candidates fight to replace Sir Keir Starmer as the MP for the north London constituency.

Five years of a near-constant cost-of-living crisis have left households in Northern Ireland almost £3,000 worse off than they would have been, according to a think tank study.

The PSNI is investigating 21 police officers, staff members and contractors as part of a crackdown on work from home “spoofing.”

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher met with an SAS commander after his squad killed three IRA men in a suspected shoot-to-kill ambush.

NO matter how many years go by, the feeling is always the same.

A young boy who fled a firebombed building as his mother was trapped inside was plagued by the experience and died prematurely aged 39, it can be revealed ahead of the 50th anniversary of the deadly IRA attack in Co Antrim.

The last two weeks in the Assembly have been some of the most toxic we have seen since 2007.

The UUP is walking a trickier tightrope at Drumcree than is generally realised.

A decade after his blueprint for transforming Northern Ireland’s health system was announced, the public may be surprised by the verdict of Professor Rafael Bengoa.

POLITICAL leaders should be encouraged to see their task as reaching a joint agreement with their opponents, rather than achieving victory over them, says a working party on violence set up by the Irish Council of Churches and the Catholic Church, in a re…

DECLAN Bonner’s decision to step back up to the plate with home club Na Rossa in Donegal has been the catalyst for a major turnabout in fortunes.

Jordan Arnold is used to a busy schedule, whether she’s behind the Q Radio microphone, hosting the Girls Groupchat podcast or working as a BBC Northern Ireland announcer.

A south Belfast café owner who was recently diagnosed with Stage One breast cancer is raising awareness of the disease after a GP initially dismissed her symptoms due to her being “under 40”.

“Gain a child, lose a tooth” is a famous old wives’ superstition that has been repeated for years.

Rasharkin-based kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture group Woodland posted record sales of £57.7 million in 2025.

Richard E Grant will finally learn his fate in the latest episode of The Celebrity Traitors on Thursday.

The first hearing in Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s legal challenge against Thames Valley Police will be held at the High Court on Thursday.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham will travel to Berlin on Thursday for his first face-to-face meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

A renewed appeal for information has been made into the shooting of a part-time Ulster Defence Regiment soldier in Co Tyrone more than 36 years ago.

The “Bendy Tree” in Newcastle, Co Down, has won this year’s UK Tree of the Year contest, organisers have announced.

A cancer survivor has spoken of her joy after being fitted with what is thought to be the first bespoke artificial tongue on the NHS.

Voters will go to the polls on Thursday as candidates fight to replace Sir Keir Starmer as the MP for Holborn and St Pancras.