The captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned as cruel and disrespectful.

Roz Foyer, of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, made the plea as she addressed the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow on ...

Hamas abducted some 250 people in its October 7 2023 attack that triggered the war. More than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, ...

Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov and Eliya Cohen were brought out by masked, armed Hamas fighters to pose on a stage.

The Vatican carried on with its Holy Year celebrations without the pope on Saturday, as Pope Francis battled pneumonia and a ...

A Halstead based organisation will host its annual jumble sale next month at Holy Trinity church, which has stood in the town for over 180 years.

On this day February22 in 1966, Roderic Norman Coote was officially appointed as the new Bishop of Colchester during an investiture ceremony at Lambeth Palace, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Thieves in France used a stolen bank card to buy a winning lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros (£414,000). But they vanished before cashing in – and now they are among the country’s most famous ...