Francis was elected on March 13 2013 as the 266th pontiff and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American choice.

Belgian federal prosecutors on Thursday announced the arrests of several people in a corruption probe linked to the European ...

Downing Street backed Donald Trump’s warnings of ‘very bad’ financial consequences for Moscow if Vladimir Putin fails to ...

Trials have taken place in London as supporters of the project seek to use an alternative to antidepressants to help people with mild symptoms.

The diplomatic development coincided with a Russian claim that its troops had driven the Ukrainian army out of a key town in ...

Syria’s interim president signed a temporary constitution on Thursday that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...

Stephen Ireland, 41, co-founder of Pride in Surrey, and David Sutton, 27, were accused of ‘targeting children for their sexual proclivities’.

NHS England is a public body delivering services with taxpayers’ money, which was set up to support and oversee NHS trusts and wider organisations to deliver healthcare. It has worked with the ...

Tens of thousands of local government workers are considering strike action over a pay dispute, a union has announced. More than 70,000 local government workers, represented by Unison, are being ...

The captain of a container ship which struck a US oil tanker off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday will be detained for another 36 hours.

Staff at the hospital where killer nurse Lucy Letby worked could face gross negligence manslaughter charges, police have said. Cheshire Constabulary said suspects had been identified and notified in ...

Reform UK are “counting their chickens” ahead of the election in Scotland next year, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said. The Nigel Farage-led party has been surging in the polls in ...