China has long used pandas as part of its diplomacy globally, deploying the bears in loan programmes as expressions of goodwill.

This month’s white-ball tour comes almost exactly a year since the start of the 2025-26 Ashes campaign Down Under.

The head coach rejects the accusations made in a newspaper article highlighting unhappiness with his management style.

Murder investigation launched after man in his 30s is fatally stabbed at a property on Selsey Road, Edgbaston. Second man taken to hospital.

The 41-year-old forward announced his international retirement on Thursday after 234 appearances and 146 goals.

Birmingham Council vows to work with police to tackle ‘disorder’ involving fireworks following recent scenes which left the ...

A car is currently experiencing heavy and thick smock on the M6. This is happening on the M6 Northbound near Walsall and Cannock with smoke billowing.

The Prime Minister is is awaiting a review which will recommend how to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training.

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Uruguay on Friday to begin a three-nation South American tour, less than a month after lung surgery and eight years after a pope last visited the continent. With Uruguay’s ...

President Donald Trump said that Stephen Miller would be replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections. On his social ...

A two-pint beer and a bratwurst at Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market now costs more than £30 triggering 'rip off' complaints from visitors. However, organisers have defended the higher prices, ...

Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has held showdown talks with his warring drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, insisting he does not need the pair to be “best friends”. Hamilton was furious with ...