The 20-year-old has been included in a 38-man touring party bound for Australia this summer despite only making his England debut in March.

A new pope is to be elected after white smoke was released from the Sistine Chapel chimney following two days of voting.

A busy road through Horwich was closed this afternoon after fire broke out in the basement of a takeaway. The electrical fire, as it is being treated, started at 2pm today, with police shutting off ...

Denis Donaldson was shot dead in 2006, months after admitting his role as a police and MI5 agent for 20 years.

Brendan Rodgers believes there is now an “expectation” of Celtic winning domestic trebles as the Parkhead club closes in on the sixth clean sweep in nine years. The Northern Irishman began the Hoops’ ...

More than 40 Labour MPs have urged the Prime Minister to pause and reassess planned cuts to disability benefits, saying current proposals are “impossible to support”.

Mount Kilimanjaro came from the clouds to provide Aidan O’Brien with yet another win in the Boodles Raindance Dee Stakes at Chester. O’Brien is now the leading trainer in the race’s history, and this ...

Nearly 40 voted against the company’s executive pay deal, which saw boss Chris O’Shea get a £4.3 million package last year.

On May 8 1945, the nation celebrated Victory in Europe, with church bells ringing out to mark the end of the Second World War.

Dan Burton, 54, died after his paramotor was involved in a collision with one flown by Sacha Dench, known as the ‘human swan’, in the Highlands.

DUP MLA Trevor Clarke made the challenge to Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly at a Northern Ireland Policing Board meeting.

Maro Itoje has become the first English captain of the British and Irish Lions since Martin Johnson in 2001 after being placed in charge of the squad bound for Australia this summer.