Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju has become the youngest chess world champion after beating defending champion Ding Liren of China in the final match of their series in Singapore.

Country music star Morgan Wallen has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanour counts of reckless endangerment for throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-storey bar in Nashville and nearly hitting two ...

To celebrate the progress made this year, Elba has opened a Christmas pop-up in central London with his initiative Don’t Stop Your Future (DSYF).

A Massachusetts man trying to escape from police shimmied down a chimney – but got stuck. The man fled onto a rooftop, channelling what the Fall River Police Department described as “the essence of ...

The Defence Secretary has said that “proscription is not a matter for now” in relation to the UK’s ban on the group that has taken power in Syria. John Healey said that the Government’s “interest” in ...

Urfan Sharif told social workers that his daughter Sara “brings a smile to my face” before he went on to murder her, new documents show. Sharif, who was convicted of Sara’s murder on Wednesday, also ...

The new procedure was to plug an artery that continued to leak blood onto the surface of the brain, according to his doctors.

Consultant paediatricians at the Countess of Chester Hospital flagged up their increasing worries over the child serial killer in late June 2016.

A mother on hunger strike has urged Sir Keir Starmer to help free her jailed son before she collapses and is hospitalised. British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, 43, has been ...

Comedian Duncan Norvelle, known for his catchphrase “Chase me”, has died aged 66. The entertainer, who rose to fame in the 1980s through his television appearances, died in hospital surrounded by his ...

A lack of support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) is a “timebomb” for public services, MPs have been told.

Chelsea all-but confirmed passage to the last 16 of the Conference League with a 3-1 win against Astana in Kazakhstan as Enzo Maresca handed full debuts to two academy graduates.