While Easter is now fondly known for egg hunts, the Easter bunny and yummy hot cross buns, the celebration has taken many forms over time.

An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, a spokesman for the hospital said. Tuesday’s strike hit the Kuwaiti ...

Steve Coogan and the cast and crew behind charming new movie The Penguin Lessons share what they learned from being on set with a penguin.

Gavin And Stacey star Larry Lamb has said he “suggested” the idea of a film adaptation of the sitcom to BBC director general Tim Davie.

The Guttmacher Institute, a research organisation that supports abortion, estimates in a report that the overall number of clinician-provided abortions in states where it is legal rose by less than 1% ...

John Cleese has said his stage adaption of Fawlty Towers has been successful because 50 years on from the show’s 1975 TV debut it is still “funnier than anything else that’s on these days”.

The availability of jobs worsened further, with vacancy numbers dropping to 781,000 for the three months to March, the ONS said.

The books that made the shortlist were: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (Canongate); The Mare by Angharad Hampshire (Northodox Press), The Book of Days by Francesca kay (Swift Press), Glorious ...

People who had been planning to implement measures under the sustainable farming incentive now say they cannot afford to.

Sir Keir Starmer had pledged to introduce the law before this year’s anniversary of the tragedy, which took place at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989.

The parent company of Pontins holiday parks has been charged with corporate manslaughter after part of a ceiling at a Somerset resort collapsed on guests six years ago. Eighteen people were injured at ...

The Alawite Muslim group was seen as privileged during the rule of former leader Bashar Assad but has suffered repeated violence since his fall.