Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he did not pick literature as an A-level as it did not feel “useful”.

Wet weather across the bank holiday weekend is expected to end what has been a record-breaking start to spring. While Sunday and Monday will not be a complete washout, the Met Office said unsettled ...

Sir Alan Bates has said the Government’s compensation schemes for victims of the Horizon IT scandal have been “turned into quasi-kangaroo courts”. The former subpostmaster, who has campaigned for ...

Nigel Farage will commit to restoring the winter fuel payment to all pensioners and to scrapping the two-child benefit cap, reports have suggested. The Reform UK leader is expected to appeal to ...

Housebuilders who leave vital development sites unfinished for years could face losing their land to local councils under new Government rules. For the first time, developers will have to commit to ...

One lucky player scooped the £3.8 million Lotto jackpot in Saturday’s draw. The ticket-holder matched all six main numbers to win the top prize. Four players won £1 million after matching five out of ...

More than a dozen people who were injured in a stabbing attack at the central train station in the German city of Hamburg are ...

Gordon Lyons had faced criticism for his failure to attend a senior GAA match in the first 15 months of his tenure as sports minister.

The health ministry said the new deaths took the war’s toll to 53,901 since the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.

The former prime minister could be seen in an Instagram post shared on Saturday holding his daughter, Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson.

The US state of New Hampshire has agreed to pay 2.25 million dollars (£1.66 million) to the mother of Harmony Montgomery, a five-year-old girl whose father was convicted of murdering her.

Horsey Beach has been recognised by experts at The Telegraph as one of the best secret and remote spots in Britain.