Actress Cate Blanchett has said she is “serious about giving up acting” as there are “lots of things I want to do with my life”. The 55-year-old is preparing to star in her first radio drama in BBC ...

Ministers have taken control to ensure supplies such as coking coal and iron ore reach the site after talks with its Chinese owner broke down.

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The duchess also spoke about her experience of miscarriage and having to ‘let something go that you plan to love for a long time’.

Bin strikes could “absolutely” spread beyond Birmingham, a union boss has warned as a dispute between refuse workers and the city’s council drags on.

A second US aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme, satellite photos ...

While Easter is now fondly known for egg hunts, the Easter bunny and yummy hot cross buns, the celebration has taken many forms over time.

Ireland was outperforming Northern Ireland in most areas, including living standards, new Economic and Social Research Institute research found.

An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, a spokesman for the hospital said. Tuesday’s strike hit the Kuwaiti ...

The Guttmacher Institute, a research organisation that supports abortion, estimates in a report that the overall number of clinician-provided abortions in states where it is legal rose by less than 1% ...

The availability of jobs worsened further, with vacancy numbers dropping to 781,000 for the three months to March, the ONS said.

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