During her career, actor Dame Maggie Smith shone in roles as varied as a maverick schoolteacher, a witch in the Harry Potter film series, and Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess of Grantham, a part which ...

Marten van Riel says he feels refreshed by the prospect of T100 glory and a longer race distance which he believes plays to his strengths ...

Joseph Eubank has been cleared of raping a teenage girl on Brighton beach. Mr Eubank, 27, of Hove, East Sussex, was acquitted of two counts of rape of a 16-year-old girl by a jury after several hours ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told world leaders at the UN that his nation will “continue degrading Hezbollah ...

Dame Maggie Smith won a best actress Oscar in 1970 but found an even wider profile in the last years of her career.

A jury has begin deliberating on verdicts in the trial of a youth accused of killing a 16-year-old boy in London’s Primrose Hill last New Year’s Eve. The 17-year-old fatally stabbed Harry Pitman in ...

Dr Anthony Hemsley said he believed NHS England was not carrying out ‘any active work on this at the current time’ to address the issue.

A new era has begun for French women’s rugby with a player-led call to expand the national team’s leadership group ...

Lucy Dinnen’s path to an Australia cap has been slowed by army commitments, malaria, Covid postponements and even a pregnancy but after 10 ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his nation’s response to the October 7 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel.

Clifford Cowen, of Kensington Park Gardens, Notting Hill, west London, is accused of murdering of Rita Fleming.

Dame Maggie won over a whole new generation of fans when she played Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter films. In 2010 she was central to the success of ITV series Downton Abbey, in her ...