At least 17 people are missing after a tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea, Egyptian officials said. The governor of the Red Sea region, Amr Hanafy, said rescuers saved 28 people from the vessel south ...

Virgin Atlantic’s boss has revealed he never meets his British Airways counterpart alone because he does “not want to get caught out”. Shai Weiss said he has “professional respect” for Sean Doyle but ...

Jurgen Maier’s comments come after energy secretary Ed Miliband vowed to take on ‘blockers’ of power schemes earlier this year.

Media personality Christine Hamilton said Storm Bert has brought the worst flooding in two decades after her kitchen was submerged in two inches of water.

The pathological investigation was carried out by the Veterinary Investigation Centre at Scotland’s Rural College in Dumfries ...

Women emerging from humble beginnings to achieve great things was a constant theme in Barbara Taylor Bradford’s novels, echoing her own rise to sparkling literary success, and in 2009 I was honoured ...

A man who identifies himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson said he signed up to fight for Ukraine’s International Legion after losing his job.

More than a dozen people are missing after a tourist cruise vessel sank in the Red Sea, officials in Egypt have said. Authorities were searching for 17 people who went missing, the governor of the Red ...

The Taoiseach said he hoped voters would not judge him on the basis of a criticised encounter with a disability care worker in Co Cork.

A gunman was seen firing directly into a car in a double shooting in which an eight-year-old girl was seriously hurt. The girl, who is in hospital in a stable condition, was shot alongside a ...

The Welsh Government estimated that the levy could generate up to £33 million a year if all Welsh local authorities introduce it.

The Bank of England should be “vigilant” over a potential economic slowdown in the UK, according to a deputy governor at the Bank. Clare Lombardelli said some recent UK economic data had showed ...