Former president Bill Clinton has been discharged from a Washington hospital, and will be home for Christmas after he was admitted the day before with a fever. Mr Clinton is being treated for the flu, ...

Manchester United star Diogo Dalot has helped serve food to homeless people at a shelter in the city. The Portuguese defender, a £19 million signing from Milan, turned up unannounced with his partner ...

Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died after chronic kidney disease aged 90. His contribution to cinema was ...

Santa Claus has been spotted all across the UK by observers on the ground eager to receive their Christmas presents.

A teenager has died after a car crashed into a wall during a police chase in Sheffield. The 18-year-old was killed in a crash in the Hyde Park Walk area of the city on Monday afternoon. South ...

The 50,000-year-old remains of a baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region, who call it the best-preserved mammoth body ...

A crocheted “elf on the shelf” has been spreading festive joy and raising money for charity by being captured in several ...

A major storm pounded California’s central coast on Monday, bringing flooding and high surf that was blamed for fatally ...

Shoppers cheered retailers with a last-minute spree on Christmas Eve after a lacklustre festive season. Footfall was up by 31.1% across all UK retail destinations up until noon on Tuesday compared ...

An explosion at an ammunition factory in north-west Turkey left at least 12 dead and four injured on Tuesday morning. The blast occurred in Balikesir province, according to the state-run Anadolu ...

Among those who braved the elements on the Christmas Eve swim in Helen’s Bay were a couple who first met at the event last year.

A day later on Christmas Eve, residents received another email from Urang apologising “for the distress” caused and suggesting “to maintain the Christmas cheer” people with light displays should ...