A curator at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has discovered more or less by accident that a barking dog in Rembrandt’s famous Night Watch painting is a near-identical copy of a 1619 drawing by fellow Dutch ...

Officers are keen to speak to anyone who has not already contacted police about the offence, which led to reward offers totalling up to £30,000.

A former health board chief executive has said she “absolutely” did not urge a senior doctor to avoid escalating her whistleblowing concerns about infection risks at a flagship hospital. Jane Grant ...

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina with powerful claws, feasting on an ancient crocodile bone. The new find was possibly 23 feet long and hailed from a mysterious group of ...

Yorkshire Water said reservoirs in the region have seen their biggest weekly rise in more than 30 years. Stocks increased to an average 45.6% in the last seven days – up 14.8 percentage points – after ...

Donald Trump used an address to the United Nations to claim London wants to “go to sharia law” as he said Europe was being “invaded” by “illegal aliens”. Speaking to the UN General Assembly in New ...

The Home Office will seek to deport an asylum seeker after he was jailed for 12 months for sexual assaults on a woman and a 14-year-old girl that led to nationwide protests.

A Palestinian medical charity said that Israel has destroyed its main centre in Gaza City after ordering its evacuation. The Palestinian Medical Relief Society said an Israeli strike reduced its ...

They praised the ‘remarkable legacies’ of Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.

Catherine Connolly has said she welcomes scrutiny on her as a presidential candidate as she submitted her nomination papers on Tuesday. The left-wing independent arrived at Custom House in Dublin on ...

Dickie Bird was “Barnsley through and through”, the sister of the cricket umpiring legend has said following his death at the age of 92. Bird was described as “Mr Barnsley” by friends who remembered ...

When passing its last budget in March, the Welsh Labour government needed the help of an opposition member to get it through by a tight margin.