Lt Col Nadav Shoshani, an army spokesman, said some 100,000 people were being ordered to move to a nearby Israel-declared ...

The thunderstorms and heavy showers that hit the UK over the bank holiday weekend will ease, with forecasters predicting a warmer and brighter week ahead. Tuesday will see sunny spells develop across ...

Oxford and Cambridge students set up Gaza protest camps while encampments have been established at UK universities in recent days.

Students and staff at Oxford and Cambridge have set up camps on their university campuses to protest against the war in Gaza. The so-called “Liberated Zone” encampments were created in the early hours ...

Daniel Bell-Drummond’s unbeaten 79 steered Kent to a seven-wicket Vitality County Championship victory over Lancashire before lunch on day four at Emirates Old Trafford.

Israel’s plan to attack the Gazan city has raised fears over the potential harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there.

Fearne Cotton, Giovanna Fletcher and Carol Vorderman were among the stars remembering Kris Hallenga, the founder of breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel!. Ms Hallenga died at the age of 38, ...

An Israeli offensive in Rafah would be “catastrophic”, Labour’s shadow foreign secretary has warned, after the Israeli military told Palestinians to leave parts of the southern Gazan city. The ...

Mr Swinney was elected unopposed as the only candidate to succeed Mr Yousaf, who announced one week ago he was stepping down as SNP leader and Scottish First Minister. In his first speech as the party ...

Mr Swinney has been named as the new SNP leader – and is now likely to become Scotland’s next first minister after a vote in Holyrood later ...

Mr Swinney succeeds Humza Yousaf in the post, and will almost certainly become Scotlan’ds next first minister later this week.