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

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Tuchel’s appointment as England’s new head coach has divided opinion and that is not strictly down to his credentials but largely because of his nationality. However, the German, who has vowed ...

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

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

Shadow ministers raised research from the Institute of Directors’ Economic Confidence Index, which measures business leader optimism.

Israel’s foreign minister has confirmed that Israeli troops in Gaza have killed Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief ...

A report setting out the annual statistics, published on Thursday, also said: “This year, one person died after making an apparent suicide attempt while in a police custody suit ...

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

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.

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