Kyren Wilson shrugged off a slow start to take a commanding lead over Lei Peifan at the end of the opening session of the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield.

Lancashire Constabulary said officers were called to a report of criminal damage to the church building and a number of gravestones in Leyland.

Mazyar Azarbonyad, 20, was taking a woman out for a first date when the crash took place near the Denton roundabout on April 9.

Francis and Mr Vance have tangled over migration and the Trump administration’s plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis has made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy and his progressive ...

Liverpool will claim the title with five matches remaining if Arsenal lose against Ipswich at Portman Road and they see off Leicester on Sunday.

The Units of the North military group has liberated the village of Oleshnya, according to the Defence Ministry.

The NASUWT could be ‘left with no choice’ but to ballot members if the Government does not fully fund a pay award, a union chief says.

Magistrates were told that a woman in the car with Mazyar Azarbonyad was on her first date with him and he was taking her home.

More than 90 people have been killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza over the last 48 hours, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and ...

Edward Gallagher, 58, appeared before court via videolink from Strand Road Police Station in Londonderry on Saturday.

Iran and the US have started a second round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme. The talks in Rome over Easter weekend again hinge on US billionaire Steve Witkoff, Donald ...