From grabbing a bargain to sea swimming and watching traditional sporting events, people have indulged in a range of Boxing Day activities.

Footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball.

More than 450 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Christmas Day, according to Home Office figures. Data updated on Thursday indicated that 451 migrants arrived on December 25 on 11 ...

The plane crashed while en route from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.

Two women have died and a man and a teenage boy suffered serious injuries after reports of a stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day. A 49-year-old man from Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was ...

A digital counter on the Reform website showed the membership ticking over the 131,680 of the Conservative Party before lunchtime on Boxing Day ...

Pope Francis has inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison, taking a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century celebration which is ...

Police in Scotland are increasingly concerned about a missing man from London who is thought to be in the Highlands. Marc Drostle, 28, is believed to have travelled to the Aviemore area two weeks ago ...

The FSB said the suspected organisers of the attacks were planning to kill a senior defence official using a remotely controlled car bomb.

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state are preparing for potentially devastating wildfires as a heatwave fanned by erratic winds presented the worst fire conditions ...

Temperatures are expected to reach up to 14C with widely cloudy conditions and patchy rain in some areas, the Met Office said.

Victims and survivors of the Boxing Day tsunami are being remembered 20 years on from the disaster. A 9.1 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean on December 26 2004 triggered the tsunami which ...