MSPs backed the general principles of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill by 70 votes to 56 with one abstention.

The layoffs are expected to hit across all parts of the business, including the career networking site LinkedIn and the video game platform Xbox.

Migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel as more than 12,000 arrivals have made the journey so far this year. Pictures show a woman smiling on board a bus leaving from Dover, ...

Elena Whitham told MSPs her mother, Irene McLeod, made the decision in ‘secret’ in a bid to ‘hasten her inevitable death’.

Mr Adams is suing the BBC over what he has deemed to be a “grievous smear” made by a confidential source in a Spotlight documentary that alleged he had sanctioned the killing of a former Sinn Fein ...

Reform UK’s majority on Durham County Council has increased after welcoming a former Independent councillor into the party.

A Hartlepool pervert was out of prison for just four days before he was locked up again when he deleted a social media app and downloading ...

A witness who watched an alleged murder victim collapse in her Middlesbrough garden after being stabbed has denied trying to protect the victim ...

Researchers said the discovery could save ‘vast numbers of lives’ by enabling pre-emptive treatment of the condition.

A Labour MP is being investigated by Parliament’s expenses watchdog over his spending. Tahir Ali, 53, faces a probe relating to “office costs, travel and accommodation,” the Independent Parliament ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering their parents.

Scotland has had its driest start to the year since 1931 while north-west and north-east England have had the lowest rainfall since 1929.