A digital counter on the Reform website showed a membership tally before lunchtime on Boxing Day ticking past 131,680.

The Eagle S is flagged in the Cook Islands but was described by Finnish customs officials as a suspected part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet.

Mr Singh was widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform programme and a landmark nuclear deal with the US.

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 ...

Azerbaijan observed a nationwide day of mourning on Thursday for the victims of a plane crash in which 38 people were killed ...

Analysts predicted Boxing Day shoppers would spend £236 each on average in the Boxing Day sales this year, with most purchases made online.

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

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 ...

Three people have been arrested in connection with the fatal incident in the Co Down town. The man in his 50s was found unconscious in a residential property in the West Street area of Newtownards in ...

Two women have died and a man and 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 ...