IT HAS been a lucky start to the day for some residents in Leigh who have scooped a prize in the People's Postcode Lottery.

The US conservative political commentor Candace Owens has been refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials ...

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people ...

A police officer who shocked a 95-yer-old nursing home resident with a Taser has been found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial ...

Donald Trump has dined with Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg at the US President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The meeting brings together the Facebook founder and the former president who ...

Sir Ed Davey is launching a bid for Christmas number one with a charity single called Love Is Enough. The Liberal Democrat leader is teaming up with Bath Philharmonia’s Young Carers’ Choir for the ...

Russia is engaged in a massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, officials said, as fears mount about Moscow’s intentions to devastate the country’s power generation ...