The founder of the Mobo awards, Kanya King, has revealed that she has stage four bowel cancer. King, chief executive of the event which celebrates and elevates black music in the UK, disclosed her ...

Strictly Come Dancing head judge Shirley Ballas is to read a CBeebies Bedtime Story ahead of the BBC One show’s grand final this weekend. Filmed at Elstree Studios, the home of Strictly’s ballroom, ...

A Hong Kong judge has convicted seven people, including a pro-democracy former politician, of rioting during mob violence at a subway station at the height of the city’s anti-government protests in ...

Ukraine’s stretched defences in Donetsk have been creaking since early this year under a fierce Russian drive.

The 10-year-old was beaten to death four years after her taxi driver father was awarded custody, despite accusations of abuse against him.

Athletics star Sam Reardon has hailed the unfaltering belief of those around him after finishing as runner-up for SportsAid's ...

The number of hospital beds in England occupied by patients with flu has increased by 70% in a week, NHS England said, as it warned of a “tidal wave of flu hitting hospitals”. Health leaders said that ...

John Lewis and former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft have chosen the “cover star” of the retailer’s Christmas ad theme song following a nationwide competition. Mel Raeburn said it was “an honour” to ...

Farmers’ union the NFU is claiming in the High Court that manure from intensive poultry units and other agricultural developments should not ...

More than 5,000 children in Northern Ireland are set to spend this Christmas living in temporary accommodation. It has emerged that in November there were 5,378 children in temporary accommodation, ...

The UK’s first drug consumption room may not now open until early next year after delays. The facility, in the east end of Glasgow, was due to open to drug users in October, allowing them to take ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Irish schoolboy Kyran Durnin. The man is being detained at a Garda station in the east of the country in relation to the disappearance of the Co ...