Year: 2024

A man with a knife was shot dead by armed police in Redditch after "several hours" of negotiations on Christmas Eve, police have said. 

Dozens are feared dead after a passenger plane carrying 72 people crashed in Kazakhstan, the country's emergencies ministry said. 

Nigel Farage has said he is willing to help incoming US ambassador Lord Mandelson negotiate with Donald Trump's administration. 

Richard Perry, a hitmaking record producer who worked with Carly Simon, Rod Stewart, Ringo Starr and the Beatles, has died aged 82. 

Around 590,000 people aged over 65 in the UK won't see or speak to anyone on Christmas Day and 1.4 million will eat dinner on their own, new figures show. 

The Church of England needs to "kneel in penitence" and "be changed", the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell is expected to say in his Christmas Day sermon. 

The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch may have dementia and a competency hearing is needed to assess whether he can face sex charges, defence lawyers have said. 

Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger has died following an avalanche in Switzerland, the country's skiing federation has said. 

Donald Trump says that when he takes power next month he will direct the US Justice Department to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty. 

Soap star Helen Worth is set to make her final appearance on Coronation Street on Christmas Day, after more than 50 years.