China has ordered banks and other financial institutions to encourage more consumer financing and use of credit cards as part ...

Claudiu Carol Kondor, 42, was delivering parcels in Leeds last year when “career criminal” Mark Ross, 32, climbed into his van and drove away ...

A convicted killer who “terrified” Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy by repeatedly turning up to her home has been jailed. Daniel Bannister, 50, admitted going to the 41-year-old’s Buckinghamshire home ...

Hamas said it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-national hostages who died in captivity.

The son of an Oxfam volunteer who was struck and killed by a bus on the world’s longest guided busway said it was “such a preventable accident”, a court heard. Three people died in separate incidents ...

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said giving parents the information they need in a clear and accessible way was a ‘must-have’.

TK Maxx and Homesense have been forced to recall batches of Lokumella Mini Pistachio Bars due to undeclared milk.

Labour MP Josh Fenton-Glynn said he would ‘never not be sorry that I’ve written eulogies for my brother but never a best man speech’.

A dad is warning people to be aware of manholes after terrifying footage shows his toddler 'almost die'  by plummeting six-feet down a ...

A mum is warning to always check takeaway food after she claims severe food poisoning could have killed her daughter on her birthday - after she ate a 'raw' chicken kebab. Georgie Dunn and her three ...

It is 56 years since the Magpies won a trophy and 70 since they lifted a domestic cup, and they face mighty Liverpool in the Carabao Cup on Sunday ...