early laboratory experiments with tobacco demonstrated that a plant’s natural defence mechanism can be activated by using light.

Colm Doran is leaving the Ploughing Championship to drive to his wedding later on Thursday afternoon.

Thousands of minks are on the run in Pennsylvania, after escaping a fur farm. The animals animals were liberated by an “unknown actor” who cut a hole in a fence of the site in Rockefeller Township in the early hours of Sunday 17 September, accord ...

It's been nearly five months since the Hollywood writers strike began and more than two months since actors joined them

Colm Doran is leaving the Ploughing Championship to drive to his wedding later on Thursday afternoon.

As the show returns, bakers, judges and the creators of the smash hit take us behind the scenes – from the chaos of the early days to its place at TV’s top table

Esther Garrity suffered extensive brain injuries when her boyfriend attacked her on a night out.

The discovery is likely to change archaeologists’ understanding of the evolution of early human technology

The 18-year-old, diagnosed with early onset psychosis, died in hospital after being detained under the Mental Health Act

Customers have been warned not to travel on routes which usually run through Stevenage station.

Customers have been warned not to travel on routes which usually run through Stevenage station.

Kevin Costner and his wife of nearly 19 years, Christine Baumgartner, have reached a settlement in their divorce

At a time of increasing political polarisation, 55 per cent of Americans say they are angry with the US political system

Donald Trump has begun a fall press in Iowa where he hopes to lock in thousands of Republican caucusgoers in the early-voting state

Explosions rocked areas around Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital early on Wednesday (20 September), a day after Azerbaijani forces launched heavy artillery fire on Armenian positions in the separatist region that local officials said killed or wounded sco ...

The Franklin County Sheriff’s office is still searching for Lauren Cook and her three children, nearly two weeks after the family was last seen by family members. Andrea Blanco reports

India’s Parliament has taken a major step toward reserving 33% of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, an issue that languished for nearly three decades because of a lack of ...

Operation Dynamo was a key event in the early stages of the Second World War.

The United Nations chief says Earth is facing a hellish problem in climate change and its leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb carbon emissions that’s causing it

The discovery is likely to change archaeologists’ understanding of the evolution of early human technology