Month: January 2025

At least 100 people who were trapped in a South African mine have died, a group representing them has said. 

Semina Halliwell's mother has described how her daughter would have been dreaming of going to the school prom this year. 

From the early hours, thousands of devotees began pouring into the Maha Kumbh mela grounds, which stretch for thousands of acres in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. 

A Gaza deal is "on the brink", President Joe Biden has said in his final foreign policy address. 

The Labour MP for Rotherham has called for a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, adding more pressure on Sir Keir Starmer. 

Pizza Hut's biggest UK restaurant franchisee is closing in on a rescue deal that would salvage the vast majority of its British outlets and jobs. 

The zebra that died in a zoo in Essex after an "incident" with a rhinoceros was killed after the larger animal unintentionally punctured its stomach. 

A Home Office pilot scheme involving asylum seekers forced to wear ankle tags to track their locations "did not affect compliance" among them, a government report has concluded. 

The family of two missing sisters in Aberdeen have issued a heartfelt plea for information, saying "all we want is for them to be found". 

Police investigating the Ely riots have charged 11 further people over the alleged disorder.