Off the back of a year that brought us the 2020 Olympics in 2021 and a British 18-year-old following up her A-Levels by winning the US Open tennis, only a fool would make predictions for 2022.

An entire floor has been gutted and the roof has collapsed after a fire broke out at South Africa's parliament in Cape Town.

A man who was abducted by a child-trafficking gang at the age of four has been reunited with his family after sharing a map of his home village drawn from memory more than 30 years later.

Dramatic footage has shown people being winched down from cable cars after being stranded up a mountain overnight on New Year's Eve.

Thunderstorms are expected to hit the south of England this afternoon, bringing the possibility of road closures, power cuts and damage to trees and buildings.

Chelsea have omitted Romelu Lukaku from their squad for the game against Liverpool on Sunday, live on Sky Sports Premier League.

Twenty Conservative politicians have urged Boris Johnson to scrap energy taxes as bills continue to rocket.

Israel has launched strikes against militant targets on the Gaza Strip a day after rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled territory.

Longlong the elephant is eight months old, 300kg - and still hungry. Even a short amble through the forest of his sanctuary takes some time, as he eats every bit of foliage in range of his trunk.

Emergency services searching for people missing after wildfires swept through communities in Colorado will use cadaver dogs to hunt through layers of fresh snow covering the smouldering debris.