German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has ordered the country’s parliament to be dissolved and set new elections for February 23 in the wake of the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing ...

Scotland welcomed 2024 in explosive style with the traditional fireworks display over Edinburgh Castle at the Hogmanay street party. The 12 months which followed saw electoral change, footballing ...

Soap supremo Sir Phil Redmond says that “courage has gone out of broadcasting” in recent years, and suggested that TV watchdog rules should be broken more often.

A prison officer has been arrested after she was allegedly filmed having sex with an inmate. Footage of the guard and male prisoner was shared with prisoners at HMP Five Wells, Northamptonshire, the ...

A Nasa spacecraft which made the closest-ever approach to the sun is safe and “operating normally”, the space agency said. On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe came within 3.8 million miles of the ...

South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach the country’s acting leader, Han Duck-soo. The assembly approved the impeachment motion in a 192-0 vote on Friday. Governing ...

The year has not been short of dramatic events and developments, and here the PA news agency provides a month by month look back on 2024.

Combs is in jail in New York awaiting a criminal trial on federal sex trafficking charges. He also faces a wave of sexual assault lawsuits, many of which were filed by the plaintiff’s lawyer, Tony ...

Wellies, sequins and beer dominated the consumer year of washout weather, touring pop megastars and national sporting celebrations.

Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, Friday 27 December https://t.co/EuA2NgKsTT pic.twitter.com/ZeK8loQF1D The Daily Mirror concentrates on two women who died in Milton ...