Saturday’s lottery jackpot will be an estimated £4 million after no players scooped the top prize in Wednesday’s draw. The winning Lotto numbers were 11, 12, 28, 29, 41 and 54, while the bonus number ...

The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ...

A police officer has been jailed for nine years after he sexually touched a vulnerable six-year-old girl while responding to a disturbance. Dean Dempster, 35, an officer for Greater Manchester Police ...

Paul Mescal says he would “absolutely love” to do a third Gladiator film after director Sir Ridley Scott teased that he could be looking to do a follow-up. The highly-anticipated second instalment of ...

President-elect Donald Trump named Marco Rubio of Florida as his nominee for secretary of state on Wednesday, setting up a ...

The King has celebrated the UK’s film and television industry at a Buckingham Palace reception before a night out at the Gladiator II premiere. Charles welcomed directors, actors, TV presenters, stunt ...

The daughter of former cricketer Lord Botham has batted away an “unnecessarily aggressive and accusatory attack” on her father over his failure to turn up at Westminster. Sarah Botham said it had ...

A proposed independent football regulator risks suffocating clubs and stifling their ambition, Apprentice star Baroness Karren Brady has warned. The West Ham United vice chair said the watchdog would ...

Labour’s Chris Webb described the growing trend of ‘formula foraging’ as low-income parents attempted to feed their children.

The wife of a man accused of a shooting spree on Skye told how he launched a frenzied knife attack which punctured both her lungs after confronting her about messages to another man, a court heard.

Two women involved in an “abhorrent and sadistic” global monkey torture network have been jailed for encouraging offences committed overseas. Adriana Orme and Holly LeGresley both pleaded guilty to ...

Environment minister Mary Creagh said most people who use single-use vapes will either ‘stop smoking, switch to reusable vapes, or ...