Growing up as a football-loving kid in Wales, there were no girls team for Sophie Ingle to join. Instead, she played with the boys team at Vale Wanderers until the age of 12.

Angela Rayner has written to Boris Johnson demanding answers over reports that a 'Sexist of the Year' award was handed out at a lockdown-busting Christmas party in Number 10.

Mother-of two Katie Kenyon died of head injuries, police have said, as they confirmed a body discovered in a forest is hers.

Ukraine's president has said a first group of "about 100" civilians has been evacuated from a Mariupol steelworks, where thousands have been stuck below ground in dreadful conditions.

The American investment firm backing the preferred bidder for Chelsea Football Club has provided assurances about the identities of its underlying investors as it tries to win swift approval for the sport's richest-ever takeover deal.

Jerusalem is bracing itself for another tense week as Palestinians prepare on Monday to celebrate the end of Ramadan with Eid al Fitr, and Israelis mark Independence Day this coming Thursday.

A man has died after he was hit by a police car in East Sussex.

The coronavirus pandemic is far from over, Bill Gates has warned, saying there could still be a variant which is "even more transmissive and even more fatal".

Boris Becker's daughter has shared her "shock" over her father's prison sentence, adding she fears it will be hard on his young son.

Tens of thousands of people have backed a campaign seeking the release of a retired British geologist facing the death penalty in Iraq after being accused of smuggling.