Nine people – almost all women – were killed when a house was hit in the eastern part of the city of Deir al-Balah.

People living in Glasgow will have first access to pre-sale tickets for next year’s Commonwealth Games, organisers have announced. Those living elsewhere in Scotland will then have a chance to book ...

Lord Sharma, who now chairs the UK’s Transition Finance Council, said: “Thanks to the strong and consistent commitment of the previous Conservative government to climate action and net zero, the UK ...

Weather warnings for the first named storm of the season have been upgraded to amber for large parts of Scotland. The Met Office warned that Storm Amy will bring a spell of “damaging winds” on Friday ...

But recent genetic changes the virus has acquired may make infections more likely. One user on X, formerly known as Twitter, said today: "I swear Covid is back in the air. It's how we are just ...

The conservationist, who was the world’s leading expert on chimpanzee behaviour, died from ‘natural causes’ in California.

Africa's oldest golf tournament is to make its return after more than a decade away as the Egyptian Open is revived on the Asian Development Tour.

Fittingly Cornish Pirates have geared up for the Champ Rugby season on the open seas and are hoping it will be plain sailing all the way to ...

Darren Fearn is ready for his first season as Doncaster Knights head coach knowing that he has the ear of perhaps the greatest rugby coach of ...

It's sink or swim time for Nottingham in a revamped Champ Rugby season – good job the team have geared up for the season on the water.

Two species of disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found in the UK, according to research. Aedes aegypti, also known as the Egyptian mosquito, and Aedes albopictus, also known as the (Asian) tiger ...

Dengue is spread to people through the bites of infected Aedes species mosquitoes and can be serious in some cases.