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 ...

A former RAF pilot who launched a charity which flies humanitarian aid to isolated communities has died, with his wife paying tribute to him having “lavished 103 years of love” into the world.

MILLWALL director of football Steve Gallen says he's excited by Ajay Matthews' potential after the Middlesbrough striker completed a permanent move to the Lions. Matthews has signed a ...

Joe Saumarez Smith has stood down from his role as chair of the British Horseracing Authority with immediate effect due to deteriorating health. Saumarez Smith, who was diagnosed with cancer in June ...

The former head of a South African arts festival has been appointed chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Tony Lankester joins the society from Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, ...

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.

A 16-year-old arrested in connection with a Sunderland burglary has been bailed. A teenage boy appeared before South Tyneside Youth Court on Tuesday, charged with a string of offences.

A man whose father, brother and sister died “in dreadful circumstances” has told MPs their sympathy “only goes so far” as he urged them to get on with the process to legalise assisted dying.

The 34-year-old Edinburgh forward’s Test career appeared to be over after he was not selected for a single squad last year.

Haverton Hill Recycling Centre in Stockton has re-opened after a "unexploded mortar shell" prompted an evacuation this afternoon.

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