Here is a list of the estimated proportion of the adult population who are current smokers in each local authority in the UK. All the figures are five-year averages covering the period 2019-23. This ...

The Conservative Councillors’ Association chairman described Reform as a potential threat in May 2025, but said he is ‘more worried about ...

A planet has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have been able to see the exoplanet – ...

It also emerged that around 5.1 million people aged 16 or over are likely to have vaped every day or occasionally in 2023.

Officials in Guerrero state, where both Coyuca and Acapulco are located, said more than three feet of rain had fallen in the region between September 23 when John made landfall to the east of Acapulco ...

Sony’s PlayStation Network went down for hours on Tuesday, frustrating gamers around the world who complained they were not able to sign in to their accounts.

A planning bid to build four new houses in a flood zone in a Norfolk village has been thrown out by a district council. The plans, lodged with the North Norfolk District Council in June this year, ...

A 14-year-old girl has been left with potentially life-changing injuries after a suspected acid attack outside a school in west London. A boy aged 16 and a 27-year-old woman were also injured after ...

Victoria Lupton has been in Lebanon with her husband and two-year-old daughter since September 17 and has a flight out booked for Wednesday.

The bus was carrying 44 passengers from central Uthai Thani province for a school trip in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces, reporters were told.

A lorry has fallen more than 60 feet from a bridge on the M6 in Cheshire. The vehicle plummeted from the Thelwall Viaduct between junctions 20 and 21, landing on the embankment below, Cheshire ...

On Tuesday, the Israeli military launched what it described as a “limited, localised” operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, carrying out “targeted ground raids” in villages close to ...