World Athletics president Lord Coe is confident the International Olympic Committee would “share in the principle” of track and field gold medal winners earning prize money in Paris – but admitted his ...

The Metropolitan Police have apologised for causing “further offence” with an earlier apology about an officer’s use of the term “openly Jewish” to an antisemitism campaigner who was threatened with ...

Facebook Messenger has revealed a new update which it said will make "your private conversations and connections even better". There are four new features that Messengers said it has aleady began to ...

A senior Chinese official arrived in North Korea and held talks on how to boost co-operation in the countries’ highest-level meeting in about five years, North Korea’s state media reported on Friday, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escalated his pledge to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which is filled with around 1.4 million Palestinians – most of whom are displaced from ...

A green sea turtle that has delighted visitors to the New England Aquarium in Boston for more than 50 years has passed her latest physical checkup. Veterinarians performed Myrtle’s checkup after the ...

THE family of James Gibbons who was murdered in Laindon, have paid tribute to the "amazing" dad-of-four. James, known as Gibbo, was stabbed to death on Sunday evening, in Iris Mews, where he was ...

A new British military laser could be rushed on to the front line in Ukraine to take down Russian drones, Grant Shapps has suggested. The DragonFire weapon, which is expected to be ready for ...

But what is the elusive subatomic particle – which has also been called the “God particle” – and what exactly did he have to say about it? – What did Prof Higgs win the Nobel Prize for? In 1964 Prof ...

It's that time of year again when BBC's Winterwatch is back on our television screens. Winterwatch will return to BBC Two from Tuesday, January 18, for two weeks of wildlife discoveries. From spotting ...