A SPORTS club founded in the last century in a village near York plays “a most convivial game”, according to one of its players, who issued a call out for new members.

A fundraiser set up to support the mother of a 14-year-old boy who died following a fire at an industrial estate in Gateshead has raised more than £13,000.

Four boats capsized in a sudden storm on a river in southwestern China, leaving nine dead and one missing, state media said on Monday. More than 80 people fell into the Wu River when strong winds hit ...

Former vice president Mike Pence repeatedly invoked the US Constitution and said it is what “binds us all together” after receiving the John F Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday. Mr Pence ...

WITH exam season approaching, students across York will be preparing to say farewell to the classrooms as they prepare to take on the world. So ...

The Community Pride Awards are returning for 2025, and its a chance to recognise a young person who has had an impact on others in York.

A North Yorkshire husband has been jailed after damaging his wife’s hearing and leaving her with long-term head injuries with a single blow.

Two tourist boats carrying roughly 70 people between them have capsized in the Wu river in China’s southwestern Guizhou province, leaving 14 people missing and three dead, state media said on Monday.

George Simion was well ahead of Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan in the election re-run with 99 of the votes counted.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected the proposal to send US troops to Mexico to help thwart the illegal drug trade.

US President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island.

People given infected blood in one of the worst treatment disasters in NHS history are “scared they won’t live to see compensation”, campaigners have said. The probe into the infected blood scandal is ...