Year: 2024

Russian snipers have killed four armed prisoners who seized guards at a jail and declared allegiance to the Islamic State, according to local media reports. 

At least one person has been killed in Russia after prisoners at a jail claiming to be Islamic State militants knifed guards and took hostages. 

The Metropolitan Police has ended its investigation into the general election betting scandal without bringing any charges. 

The Lynch family have said they are "devastated" and "in shock" but are being "comforted and supported by family and friends" after the Bayesian superyacht tragedy. 

A woman is missing in Malaysia after plunging into a 26ft-deep (8m) sinkhole when the pavement she was walking on collapsed beneath her, authorities have said. 

Filming on the final episode of Gavin & Stacey is set to get under way in the coming weeks. 

A Scottish Tory leadership candidate has said he still does not support gay marriage because of his religious beliefs, 10 years after voting against it. 

Some of London's leading universities are plotting to create a £500m fund to back start-ups created by their academics, even as the wider higher education sector confronts a growing financial…

Divers have found the body of the final person missing from the superyacht that sank off Sicily. 

Ed Sheeran has reignited controversy around a "wildlife pond" he built in the garden of his Suffolk mansion, after sharing a video showing him bombing into the water in his…