The captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned as cruel and disrespectful.

Roz Foyer, of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, made the plea as she addressed the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow on ...

Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov and Eliya Cohen were brought out by masked, armed Hamas fighters to pose on a stage.

The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope on Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a ...

A theatre company will bring a classic musical to life in a new production in Witham. Witham Amateur Operatic Society (WAOS) will perform Anything Goes at Witham Public Hall between April 7 and 12, ...

Thieves in France used a stolen bank card to buy a winning lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros (£414,000). But they vanished before cashing in – and now they are among the country’s most famous ...

On this day February22 in 1966, Roderic Norman Coote was officially appointed as the new Bishop of Colchester during an investiture ceremony at Lambeth Palace, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Prime Minister insisted Kyiv’s voice must be at the heart of any peace negotiations in a call on Saturday.

The M25 anticlockwise exit slip at Junction 27 (Stansted/M11) remains closed due to a police incident, with all lanes currently shut.

The United States has proposed a draft United Nations resolution that stops far short of a competing European-backed ...

Darryl Bedford, 55, from Fulham in west London, creates paper art, which he calls drawstring origami, using a combination of ...