Moscow has launched a massive missile barrage on Christmas Day, with the aim of crippling energy infrastructure sites across ...

The plane was originally scheduled to travel from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny.

The plane crashed while en route from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city Grozny in the North Caucasus.

The mildest start to Christmas Day on record has been recorded for Northern Ireland and Scotland. In Kinloss, Moray, temperatures reached 11.9C, while at Killowen, Co Down, it peaked at 11C for the 24 ...

Charlene Watson, 34, of Alfred Street, Darlington, was sentenced to six months in prison at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court on ...

Darlington health-kick group Health in Haughton Matters has bagged a £20k funding boost from the National Lottery.

The wife of deposed Syrian leader Bashar Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been given a 50/50 chance of survival, media reports have claimed. Asma Assad is being isolated to prevent ...

An 88-year-old great-grandmother still receives a Christmas card every year from the German pen pal she has been writing to ...

The 25-year-old Love Island star split from fiance Tommy Fury, with whom she has a young daughter, earlier this year. In a YouTube vlog posted on Christmas Eve, she said: “I have found the last few ...

First to arrive was Theo James Sherwood Hunter, at the University Hospital of North Durham at 10.03am. Mum Maddison Hunter, 22, of Rushyford, underwent a Caesarian section to deliver her son, who ...

The King has used his Christmas address to pay tribute to the “selfless” doctors and nurses who provided “strength, care and comfort” during cancer treatment for himself and the Princess of Wales.

Here is the full text of the King’s Christmas broadcast: “Earlier this year, as we commemorated the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, the Queen and I had the enormous privilege of meeting, once again, the ...