A rescue mission was launched after the boat hit the rocks off the coast of Orkney at around 6.30am on Thursday.

The Israeli prime minister has said the attempted hijack by the co-pilot of a plane en route to Tel Aviv from Dubai yesterday ...

Sky's Sophy Ridge reflects on the state of the prison system by speaking to victims, family members, and Labour and Conservative ministers ...

Ashley Malcolm has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, with a further five years on licence, for the manslaughter of John Burke, 86. The 40-year-old headbutted the great-grandfather during the break ...

The new early prisoner release scheme has begun today in England and Wales, with hundreds of inmates set to be let out sooner than previously expected. Over the next year, thousands of prisoners will ...

A guest was attacked at a Travelodge in Maidenhead by a man who was wrongly given a key to her room. An investigation found ...

Tennessee governor Bill Lee says 'something didn't go right last night' after death row inmate Christa Pike survived two ...

Christa Pike, 50, was due to be executed after the US Supreme Court overturned an earlier reprieve that had been ordered just ...

The Women's Super League in England has complained the tournament would be "at best inconvenient, and at worst, catastrophic" ...

A Russian drone has struck a school in Kyiv, forcing children and staff members to rush to a shelter. It comes amid repeated ...

David Parkes, 61, from Tickhill, near Doncaster, had claimed the animals were owned by his wife and son, who admitted three ...

A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive ...