Four-time champion John Higgins is one frame away from booking his place in the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship after his marathon clash against Xiao Guodong could not be decided ...

Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, was laid to rest on Saturday morning in a funeral attended by world leaders, royalty and thousands of faithful in Rome. The open-air mass was ...

Nicolas Jackson ended his long goal drought to fire Chelsea a step nearer to the Champions League with a 1-0 win against Everton at Stamford Bridge. A dominant display was capped by the winning goal ...

The third round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme have ended, a person with knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press on ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to “maintain momentum and continue working intensively” on efforts to secure peace in Ukraine when they met in Rome on Saturday. Downing Street said the ...

Pope Francis’s calls for peace have been repeated at his funeral, as world leaders including the US and Ukraine presidents attended a gathering of 200,000 to mourn his loss. US leader Donald Trump and ...

Across the Netherlands, people have donned orange clothes – from tuxedos to feather boas – and boats packed with revellers clogged Amsterdam’s canals to celebrate their king’s birthday. In an ...

TV presenter Gregg Wallace has called for him to have the “space to heal”, after revealing he thought about suicide at the height of the furore over misconduct allegations made against him. The ...

THE government has “completely failed” to protect children from online harms, a Scrutiny chair has warned as her panel launches a review into the issue. Deputy Catherine Curtis said a series of public ...

FROM karate to kick-boxing, and padel to petanque, around a dozen sports are to be part of the Liberation Games. Aimed at final-year pupils from all Island primary schools, the four-day event forms ...

Being in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis was a “real honour and privilege”, a group of friends from the UK and Ireland who travelled to the city to pay homage to him have said. They described an ...

Catholics paying respects to Pope Francis at Westminster Cathedral hope his legacy continues with one describing feeling orphaned. Multiple masses were held for Pope Francis at the largest Roman ...