A total of 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel in small boats during 2024, according to provisional figures from ...

Seven people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Jabaliya area, and a woman and child died when another hit the ...

VITAL money has been collected for two charities thanks to a Christmas Eve fundraising event in Sanquhar. Santa paid a visit to the town's fire station last week before the big day. Groups of locals ...

Northern Scotland is expected to be hit with snow on New Year’s Day, as organisers of the cancelled Hogmanay event in Edinburgh branded this week “challenging”. The Met Office’s yellow warning that ...

A software engineer has completed his year-long challenge of doing 300 press-ups every day in memory of his mother who had multiple sclerosis (MS), raising more than £10,000 for charity.

The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats.

A 32-year-old man was arrested after one officer died and another was seriously injured in the incident in the South Island city of Nelson.

Only two of the 181 people on board the Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air survived when it crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday.