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 ...

A murder-accused father deliberately drove into a motorcyclist who was in a high-speed chase with his son, causing brain damage and a severed spinal cord, a court has heard.

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 ...

World Rugby and Gilbert have unveiled the official ball for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, exactly one year before the tournament’s ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...