In one small step for robot-kind – thousands of them, really – humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital Beijing on Saturday.

The Energy Secretary said both Reform UK and the Tories were prepared to concoct falsehoods to ‘pursue their ideological agenda.’ ...

On the battlefield, Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday that its forces pushed Ukrainian troops from the village of Oleshnya, one of their last remaining footholds in Russia’s Kursk region, ...

Six men have been arrested in connection with the death of a woman hit at a golf club by a van being chased by police. Suzanne Cherry, 62, of Aldridge, Walsall, died in hospital after she was struck ...

Special pouches used to lock students’ phones during the day were introduced at Birchwood Community High School in September.

A man has been charged with murder after the body of a woman who was last seen leaving work a week ago was discovered. Paria Veisi was reported missing after leaving her workplace in the Canton area ...

It has been revealed that high street bank Santander will close 23 branches in June. It is believed it is part of its move to close 95 banks before September. Three branches will shut in Wales, while ...

US vice president JD Vance has met the Vatican’s number two official after a papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s ...

Police have launched an investigation after seven statues were daubed with graffiti before thousands of trans rights protesters marched through central London. The Metropolitan said its officers were ...

In January 2023, Mr Putin had ordered his forces in Ukraine to observe a unilateral, 36-hour cease-fire for Orthodox Christmas. Mr Zelensky had stopped short of stating his forces would reject Putin’s ...

Thousands of trans rights protesters have taken to the streets of Edinburgh following the recent Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman.

Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among the four people who died in the crash on Thursday at Monte Faito.