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.

Secondary school students in England are once again being asked to wear masks in classrooms to help tackle the rise in Omicron coronavirus cases.

One of Ireland's top animal hospitals has called for the establishment of a national canine blood bank service, similar to the one that exists in the United Kingdom.

Luis Ortiz twice hauled himself off the canvas to knock out ‘Prince’ Charles Martin in a back-and-forth heavyweight battle on Saturday in Florida.

England head coach Chris Silverwood has tested positive for Covid-19 while isolating with family in Melbourne.

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.

Prince Andrew's bid to block the continuation of a lawsuit by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 - on the grounds that she no longer lives in the US - has been rejected by a judge.

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.

Rural farming communities in Wales could be "decimated" if blanket afforestation is allowed, according to the president of the National Farmers Union in Wales.

A fire has broken out at South Africa's parliament in Cape Town.