The Princess Royal’s forthcoming 75th birthday has been marked by the release of a new photograph of the King’s sister with her husband.

Queen Elizabeth II with Princess Anne and the Prince of Wales on a tour to Australia in 1970 (PA) Tanya Curry, chief executive of the Motor Neurone Disease Association of which Anne became patron in ...

US president Donald Trump said he will meet “very shortly” with Russian president Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed Moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died aged 97. Mr Lovell died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, ...

Nicola Sturgeon spoke of feeling she had ‘failed’ when she did not win the constituency she stood in at the first Scottish Parliament election.

Scottish police are thought to be on notice for a visit by the US vice president, who is on holiday in the UK with his family.

“In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,” the vice president said at the time. In the White House earlier this year, Mr Vance said he knew of “infringements on free speech ...

Firefighters in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles have made good progress in their battle against a brush fire which has forced thousands of people to evacuate the area, an official said. The ...

A bid to have the sentence of a teenage boy who killed elderly dog walker Bhim Kohli increased is due to be heard at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday.

River Island is set to push ahead with plans to shut 33 stores after receiving court approval for a major restructuring.

“On Friday at around lunchtime, there was a small rockfall in the Loom area (back of the Giant’s Causeway) in Port Noffer,” ...

The region’s four mayors said payments worth £1.3m made to boss Nicola Shaw via an offshore parent company were a ...