When Justin Welby steps down he will be succeeded by the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. There are more than 100 bishops in the Church of England, including 42 diocesan bishops. Here, the PA news ...

A disability rights campaigner opposed to the assisted dying bill has argued care services should be prioritised over the ...

Chairman Nigel Railton is to announce new cost-cutting measures that could result in the closure of more than 100 branches across the country.

Tributes have been paid to Mr Duhan, 74, who had written songs recorded by artists such as Christy Moore, The Dubliners and Mary Black.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes ...

Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize with Orbital, in a record year for female writers. According to the Booker Prize, 36 men and 19 women have won it since ...

British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize. Her book Orbital, about astronauts looking down at Earth, was named as the winner of the £50,000 prize and ...

A driver killed 35 people and injured another 43 when he deliberately rammed his car into a crowd exercising at a sports ...

Israel has failed to meet US demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than ...

Richard Gittins told Sky News that bishops ‘who kept the stories to themselves’ should now be held accountable.

A US jury on Tuesday awarded 42 million dollars (£33 million) to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a military contractor responsible for contributing to their ...