Carmers’ Queen’s Vase win at Ascot has looked like an increasingly solid piece of form – the runner-up, Furthur, has won the Geoffrey Freer since and the fifth-placed horse, Scandinavia, has ...

A key mediator has stressed the urgency of brokering a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a ...

RWC 2025 chair Gill Whitehead reckons the Twickenham showpiece will “easily” surpass the 66,000 crowd for the opening sevens at last ...

US President Donald Trump suggested American aircraft could help European nations police a deal to end the war in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has spoken with the UK’s allies in the so-called coalition of the willing on Tuesday.

A record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024 – nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, the UN humanitarian office said. UN humanitarian chief Tom ...

James Tate is hoping a long-term plan comes to fruition with Majestic Warrior in the Sky Bet Ebor at York on Saturday. Successful in two of his first three races in 2023, the Churchill five-year-old ...

WH Smith’s iconic logo will be removed from its High Wycombe shop following its recent takeover. A planning application, which was put forward to Buckinghamshire Council in May this year, requested ...

Jean Flick, 88, with daughter Frances, 60, in the garden at her home in Thorpeness, which is at risk of falling into the sea following coastal erosion (Joe Giddens/PA) ...

The UK Government has dropped its demand for Apple to access users’ data amid a privacy and encryption row, according to the US director of national intelligence.

Charlie Appleby is confident Distant Storm is heading to York as a “big player” for Wednesday’s Tattersalls Acomb Stakes.

The Office for National Statistics has delayed the publication of its latest monthly retail statistics to allow for “further quality assurance”. It is the latest in a string of setbacks regarding data ...