The knife handle figure, discovered in the River Tyne near Corbridge in Northumberland, is thought to have been bought as a souvenir.

The Home Office spent £15 million buying a derelict prison contaminated with asbestos amid political pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog.

Japanese Princess Yuriko has died aged 101 after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said. Yuriko was the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the ...

Lee Carsley’s side was backed by 3,500 travelling supporters in Thursday’s key Group B2 encounter at the sold-out Olympic Stadium in Athens.

A patient’s own blood could be used to help create a material potentially capable of repairing their broken bones, new research suggests. Scientists have transformed blood into a substance which ...