The United States built the canal in the early 1900s as it looked for ways to facilitate the transit of commercial and military vessels.

Sir Mark Rowley, who heads the country’s largest police force, has previously warned of ‘eye-watering’ cuts to the force’s spending ...

Israel has released 110 Palestinian prisoners after eight hostages in the Gaza Strip were freed by Hamas-led militants earlier in the day. It was a sometimes chaotic process that briefly called the ...

City will face one of those two European heavyweights in the Champions League next month after scraping through to the play-off round on Wednesday.

Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon has said the UK media industry must avoid becoming an “American news swamp” where young people get their news from unregulated platforms such as social media. The ...

Nasa’s two stuck astronauts have taken their first spacewalk together, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.

Ireland interim boss Simon Easterby expects Sam Prendergast and Jack Crowley to be long-term rivals for the team’s number 10 jersey but insists the former is the “right man” to start against England.

The bank is the latest large company to roll back its flexible working policies brought in during the Covid-19 pandemic.

More images have emerged of the hundreds of illegal vapes, cigarettes and tobacco which were seized from several High Wycombe shops.

A man who was in a ‘suspicious-looking’ car has been arrested for several crimes. Across the recent weekend [January 25/26], officers from Thames Valley Police were patrolling the Downley and Disraeli ...

A playground in Amersham has reopened after a £45,000 refurbishment, including a new slide and swings. The play area on Bois Moor Road was ceremoniously opened by the mayor of Chesham Francis Holly ...

The Ronnie Bartlett-owned chestnut came from a long way back to catch Il Est Francais in the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day. That had been the nine-year-old’s first big objective of the ...