A piece of semi-precious gemstone jewellery slated to sell for £8,000 has sold at auction for more than three times its asking price to an unnamed collector. Woolley & Wallis auctioneers sold a ...

He emphasised that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because he saw value in the companies, not to take out competitors.

A player has scooped the £5.2 million jackpot in Wednesday’s National Lottery Lotto draw. The winning numbers were 27, 36, 39, 48, 57, 59 and the bonus number was 45. Some 29 players each won £1,750 ...

Filipina actor Lotlot de Leon said on Instagram that her mother ‘touched generations with her unmatched talent, grace, and passion for ...

The top United Nations official in South Sudan urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to use its clout to prevent the world’s newest nation from again plunging into civil war.

Marsan, 56, who recently played Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch in the film Back To Black, was made an OBE for his services to drama at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday. The son of ...

A colossal squid has been filmed alive in the wild for the first time, 100 years after the species was discovered. The rare footage was captured on March 9 by Schmidt Ocean Institute’s remotely ...

The woman, in her sixties, was taken to hospital in a critical condition after the collision last week but died on Tuesday, police confirmed.

Spotify is back up and running, the music streaming giant has announced after it was hit with a service outage which left thousands of users unable to stream music on Wednesday afternoon. The platform ...

A 39-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery of the pensioner’s body on Wednesday.

Judge James E Boasberg warned he could refer the matter for prosecution if the administration does not ‘purge’ its contempt.

Whole ecosystems have been “decimated” and endangered species put at risk after weeks of wildfires across the UK, charities have warned. One of the driest Marches in decades, combined with warmer than ...