Did you make and trade a friendship bracelet? Invest in a Stanley cup? What we wore, used and shared in 2024

Home to choir singers for 650 years, Grade-1 listed Vicar’s Close by Wells Cathedral is in need of funding to keep its medieval houses liveable – and its unique history alive

Protestors shouted through loudspeakers that the Israeli hostages in Gaza were suffering in the tunnels and were ‘cold, tortured and sick’

Rumors of a rift between Baldoni and the cast of It Ends with Us began in August after the movie’s release

Peruvian shamans have predicted a bizarre alliance in 2025 between US President-elect Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin which would exclude China and potentially trigger a third World War. In an annual ritual on Friday, 27 December, the grou ...

Missile defence system to be operated by US troops in a departure from Israeli military policy

The man accused of lighting a woman on fire on a New York City subway was indicted on state charges on Friday

He’s been on screen since he was seven – but only prepares for a scene 10 minutes before. Yet somehow the mischievous Succession star is now tipped for an Oscar. How did the chaotic, charismatic actor do it?

Complaining about BA is a ‘national sport’, but even critics says its £7bn turnaround plan is starting to bear fruit

Pontiff calls for hope and kindness in BBC Radio 4 Thought for the Day message

Academic Danilo Brozović says studies of failed civilisations all point in one direction – today’s society needs radical transformation to survive

Golden Globe-winning actor ‘lived a life fu

Claim from FSB comes two weeks after Ukrainian assassination of senior Russian general Igor Kirillov

Many flights at Heathrow and Gatwick cancelled or delayed on Saturday as murky conditions persist

Blood tests conducted on the family members, including one killed and two surviving members, revealed traces of arsenic

Volodymyr Zelensky has urged China to put pressure on North Korea if it “is sincere in its statements that the war should not expand.” In an address on Friday, 27 December, the Ukrainian president said North Korean troops deployed in Russia's Kur ...

South Korea, Ukraine and the US previously accused Pyongyang of sending thousands of soldiers to help Russia

AI company, which makes ChatGPT, says in blogpost ‘we once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined’

Ash, 38, a photographer, meets Darren, 39, a TV producer