Joe Saumarez Smith has stood down from his role as chair of the British Horseracing Authority with immediate effect due to deteriorating health. Saumarez Smith, who was diagnosed with cancer in June ...

Israel has released 110 Palestinian prisoners after eight hostages in the Gaza Strip were freed by Hamas-led militants earlier in the day. It was a sometimes chaotic process that briefly called the ...

Mr Trump blamed previous administrations’ efforts to promote diversity at federal agencies for contributing to the crash.

A man whose father, brother and sister died “in dreadful circumstances” has told MPs their sympathy “only goes so far” as he urged them to get on with the process to legalise assisted dying.

The 34-year-old Edinburgh forward’s Test career appeared to be over after he was not selected for a single squad last year.

City will face one of those two European heavyweights in the Champions League next month after scraping through to the play-off round on Wednesday.