Police in Devon have warned against sea swimming after two men went missing in the water and as a cold health alert remains in place for parts of the UK.

Space is an alien environment for humans.

It has been a turbulent year. Wars have erupted or dragged on, international crises have deepened - but there have been bright spots too.

Ukraine has hit a major Russian oil refinery with British missiles, Ukrainian military and security officials said on Thursday.

American talk show host Jimmy Kimmel delivered an alternative Christmas message this year, taking aim what he said was the rise of fascism under Donald Trump's government.

Griff Rhys Jones has been campaigning for decades to preserve Britain's old buildings.

Police say a woman in her 80s has died after a serious assault inside a flat in Wiltshire on Christmas Day.

The incoming Archbishop of Canterbury has warned in her Christmas Day sermon that "conversations about immigration continue to divide us, when our common humanity should unite us".

A powerful atmospheric river storm has swept across California, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's daughters joined the King, the Queen and other royals in Sandringham on Christmas Day for the family's annual church service without him.