2 h. ago Pope Francis' health is improving: Pontiff is 'up and about' and in good spirits, the Vatican says

In a statement this evening the Vatican said: 'The clinical conditions of the Holy Father are confirmed to be improving today'.

Politics

2 h. ago North Lanarkshire councillors approve contract to help victims of domestic abuse

North Lanarkshire Council agreed to the award of the two year contract, worth almost £1.4 million, to Sacro.

Events

3 h. ago Shrek fans disturbed by ‘strange’ detail in Shrek 5 teaser trailer

Next installment in the popular DreamWorks Animation franchise will welcome Zendaya as Shrek’s daughter

Politics

3 h. ago BBC drama is hailed as 2025's answer to Peaky Blinders and Killing Eve

Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground is a slim, pacy non-fiction volume by journalist/ academic Marek Kohn, published in 1992. 

Events

4 h. ago Gas company assisting with probe into Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa deaths

Police said they do not believe foul play was a factor in the death of the Oscar-winning film star and his wife.

Events

4 h. ago Gene Hackman and wife’s deaths deemed ‘suspicious’ as New Mexico authorities launch investigation

The couple, who had been married since 1991, were found alongside their dog

Events

5 h. ago Watch live: Andrew and Tristan Tate expected to arrive at Florida airport after travel ban lifted

Watch a live feed outside an airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where Andrew and Tristan Tate are expected to arrive after landing from Romania on Thursday, 27 February.

Society

5 h. ago Woman admits to causing £5k damage to her ex's motor — only it wasn't his car

Police in Florida say that Evelina Fabianski, 18, and a 16-year-old girl caused £4,000 worth of damage to the car because she claimed her ex-boyfriend owed her money

Economics

5 h. ago 'Paedo' surgeon’s disturbing family life and wife who ‘ignored abuse for twisted reason’

Joël Le Scouarnec, allegedly France’s worst-ever paedophile, was reportedly a completely different person with his family, who have likened him to 'Jekyll and Hyde'

Events

5 h. ago Amazon users can bag LEGO Marvel sets for as little as £13 in flash deal

Fans of the superhero franchise can take advantage of these Amazon LEGO set deals that depict some iconic movie moments.

Economics

5 h. ago Man jailed for life over 2017 gang murder of teenager Kacem Mokrane in east London

Christopher Wilson, 23, was part of a gang who fatally ambushed Kacem Mokrane

Events

5 h. ago Andrew and Tristan Tate ‘not welcome’ in Florida says governor Ron DeSantis as brothers’ flight lands: Live

Romanian prosecutors confirmed they had approved the travel request

Politics

5 h. ago 'Excellent' Amazon Fire TV has shoppers 'struggling to find anything better' amid huge price drop

Shoppers were "full of praise" for the TV which has seen its price slashed significantly on Amazon

Economics

5 h. ago Duchess of Edinburgh shares sweet moment with a little girl as she attends Mother's Union meeting in Chelmsford

Sophie, 60, stunned in an all black ensemble on Thursday as she visited the Christian organisation in Chelmsford, Essex, to learn about it's English for Women project.

Politics

5 h. ago LAX on red alert as foreign traveler brings in deadly disease and infects unknown number

A passenger arriving on a Korean Air flight from Seoul to the US tested positive for the highly contagious respiratory illness.

Events

6 h. ago Drug gang used flights from France to drop £4m worth of cocaine in English countryside

Police say organised crime group would fly planes from Cherbourg, France, to southern England

Events

6 h. ago Trump and California don’t see eye to eye, but critique of high

Dream of going from LA to San Francisco in three hours is past deadline, over budget, and after 16 years, incompleteCalifornians know their state is a punching bag for Donald Trump’s administration, a “paradise lost” that the president intends to wrest back from the “radical left lunatics”. But when Trump took aim at the state’s much-delayed high-speed rail project earlier this month, saying it was “the worst managed project” he’d ever seen, some of those leftwingers – and more moderate voters – found themselves in the unusual position of conceding he might have a point.California’s beautiful dream of a bullet train whisking passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours has been more than 16 years in the making, approved by voters but dogged by so many delays, broken deadlines and cost overruns that it has only just reached the initial stages of laying down track. Continue reading...

Politics

6 h. ago Man fined for cutting down tree in his garden worth £114,000

A local authority representative said they welcomed the sentence against Mr Bellis

Economics

6 h. ago TikTok airport theory debunked as "15 minutes before flight " arrival time addressed by experts

TikTok is the home of travel trends, some useful and others ridiculous.

Transport

6 h. ago Francis Ngannou makes honest admission about Tyson Fury fight

The former UFC heavyweight nearly shocked the world in the clash with Fury, but has made an honest admission nearly two years on from the dust-up

Events