Richard Longthorpe raised £22,000 for St Paul’s, Goole Amateur Boxing Club and Parkinson’s UK last January by doing 1,000 press-ups a day.

A driver in a pick-up truck who was “hell-bent on carnage” sped through a crowd of pedestrians in New Orleans’ bustling French Quarter in the early hours of New Year’s Day, killing 10 people and ...

Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community collected hundreds of bags of litter in towns and cities across the UK as part of an annual New Year clean-up. More than 1,700 people took part in the event ...

A WEATHER warning for ice is now in place across Ayrshire on New Year's Day. The Met Office yellow warning covers the whole region and runs from 4pm on Wednesday, January 1 until 10am on Thursday, ...

Here are just a handful of some of our favourite submissions from 2024. George Shields captured this wonderful 'waterfall' shot at the River Ayr. An eery New Cumnock sunrise captured by Neil Wilks at ...

Some residents have been asked to evacuate where flood warnings have been issued, Manchester City Council said.

In another New Year staple, darts fans again flocked to London’s Alexandra Palace, many in costume, to see what the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune would bring in 2025.

In Berlin, 30 police officers and one firefighter were injured in confrontations or attacks, leading to 400 arrests, city officials said.

Sailors of the Royal Navy were recalled to HMS Somerset (right) to shadow Russian corvette RFS Soobrazitelny (left) and ro-ro transporter/support ship MV Sparta II (centre) for 500 miles in the North ...