Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.

Former One Direction member Liam Payne died of multiple traumas and “internal and external haemorrhage”, as a result of a fall from the balcony of a hotel’s third-floor, a post-mortem examination ...

A boy has been stabbed in the middle of the afternoon in south-east London. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the scene in Broadway, Bexleyheath, at 3.31pm on Thursday and found the boy, who ...

Thomas Tuchel’s appointment as England’s new head coach has divided opinion and that is not strictly down to his credentials but largely because of his nationality. However, the German, who has vowed ...

Troops appear to have run across him in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel ...

Line manager Eirian Powell told the inquiry into nurse Lucy Letby’s crimes that there was ‘no evidence of any wrongdoing’ after three ...

The Bradford Bulls have sensationally announced that head coach Eamon O’Carroll will be leaving to accept an opportunity to work at a Super ...

Police have issued an appeal for witnesses after an elderly woman suffered serious injuries in a two-car crash this afternoon.

The number of people dying in or after police custody in England and Wales has been described as “extremely concerning” as figures show more than half had mental health problems. The Independent ...