A brother who attacked his older sister with a hammer as she lay in bed has been detained indefinitely for her manslaughter.

Michael Ward, who is known for his roles in Top Boy and Empire of Light, has been charged with two counts of rape by the Metropolitan Police ...

Bafta-nominated actor Micheal Ward has been charged with rape and sexual assault. The 27-year-old, who has starred in Blue Story and Top Boy, is accused of offences against one woman in January 2023, ...

Ricky Ponting insisted there is “absolutely no reason” why Joe Root cannot become Test cricket’s all-time top run-scorer after he was leapfrogged to second on the list by the Yorkshireman.

Veteran jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine, famed for her scat singing style, has died at the age of 97. Nicknamed the First Lady of Jazz, she was a leading figure of the British jazz music scene along with ...

Crispin Odey is suing the Financial Times for libel and is separately being sued by five women over denied claims of alleged misconduct.

France’s highest court on Friday upheld some of Syrian ex-leader Bashar Assad’s personal immunity as a head of state, while allowing possible future war crime warrants, drawing criticism from human ...

Local authorities with the greatest proportion of homes owned outright tend to be in coastal areas or away from cities.

Oscar Piastri secured a dominant pole position for Saturday’s sprint race in Belgium as Lewis Hamilton qualified only 18th. McLaren’s Piastri, who holds an eight-point lead over championship rival ...

Phone notes made by a transgender doctor following a dispute with a nurse had been edited, a tribunal has heard. An employment tribunal was told on Friday that NHS Fife did not commission a forensic ...

Ahead of Staya at Royal Ascot was Charlie Clover’s Flowerhead, who outran huge odds of 100-1 to finish first of those on her side of the track and second to Aidan O’Brien’s True Love. She is another ...

It now takes the average first-time buyer more than 12 years to save for a house deposit. But is there a way to speed up the process - and ...