Five Britons are among almost 300 people released in a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine overnight.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 15-year-old was stabbed to death in Huddersfield.

The government has lifted a ban on fracking for shale gas, in place since 2019 after a series of tremors, even though a review concluded that forecasting related earthquakes “remains a scientific challenge”.

The number of Catholics living in Northern Ireland outnumber Protestants for the first time since it was created, census figures show.

Patients will be expected to get an appointment with their GP within two weeks under plans to be unveiled by the health secretary on Thursday.

The voluntary real living wage has been raised earlier than usual to provide more financial support to hundreds of thousands of workers during the cost of living crisis.

Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats are part of a desperate attempt to justify his "catastrophic" failure in Ukraine, Liz Truss has said.

Babies in the womb react positively to their mothers eating carrots but appear to cry after they have eaten green vegetables, a new study suggests.

The first ominous sounds of explosions could be heard on the outskirts of the city of Kupiansk.

A NASA-built spacecraft will deliberately crash into an asteroid as part of a test mission later this month.