Rugby Football Union chief executive Bill Sweeney is to face demands for his removal after a community game revolt submitted its request for a special general meeting on a night of acrimony between ...

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been arrested after her convoy was intercepted by security forces as it departed an anti-government protest in Caracas, according to aides.

Everton confirmed Dyche’s departure in a statement, which said: “Everton Football Club can confirm that Sean Dyche has been relieved of his duties as senior men’s first team manager with immediate ...

The Metropolitan Police have blocked an upcoming pro-Palestine march from gathering near a synagogue in central London. Protesters targeting the BBC were planning to gather outside Broadcasting House ...

Former first minister Humza Yousaf has accused Elon Musk of seeking to “inflame racial tensions” with a reference to the infamous murder of Kriss Donald in 2004. The Glasgow schoolboy, aged 15 at the ...

Fresh weather warnings have been issued as the UK continues to be hit by icy weather. Yellow weather warnings for ice have been issued for large parts of the UK on Thursday and Friday as poor weather ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles above Mercury’s night side before ...

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than ...

Bar manager Jason Pegg admits the fun pledge to reward a winning goalscorer is a ‘big ask’ but says anything is possible in football.

Jess Phillips has said MPs can jump on the bandwagon of combating grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation – but “it is action that is needed”.

The Deputy Prime Minister suggested the billionaire should be ‘correcting the record as soon as possible’ over information shared on his ...