Carrying shopping bags home might feel like lugging a lorry, but this everyday activity could be boosting muscle strength.

Brits have confessed to their sauciest habit, and it involves plenty of double-dipping. New research by Papa Johns reveals two in five people (40 per cent) eat food purely as a vehicle for dips. Pizza ...

The first asylum seekers have been moved into a former military barracks in East Sussex as ministers face pressure to end the use of hotels. Some 27 men have been housed at Crowborough Training Camp ...

The Prime Minister said the US president’s shift in position was ‘good news’ as he spoke with residents on a visit to Hertfordshire ...

US stock markets rose overnight, while the UK’s FTSE 100, Germany’s Dax and France’s Cac 40 enjoyed gains on Thursday morning.

TV cook Nigella Lawson is rumoured to be replacing long-standing judge Prue Leith on the Great British Bake Off after she revealed she is leaving.

Scots have been left “squealing” from paying increasingly higher taxes, Sir Tom Hunter has said, as he described the burden on nurses, teachers and policemen as unfair. Sir Tom, one of Scotland’s ...

The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry has been examining issues at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) and Royal Hospital for Children.

UK Government borrowing fell sharply to £11.6 billion in December as a spike in tax receipts and national insurance more than outweighed an uptick in spending, official figures show. The Office for ...

The Met Office has issued rain warnings for parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and the south west of England on Thursday.

The major political parties held campaign rallies in the capital, Dhaka, and elsewhere ahead of the February 12 poll.