In pictures: CMEWA returns to where it all began for 125th anniversary

Emergency services raced to the scene

The 50 per cent increase from the council puts the award in the top tier nationally for prize money – but it faces local competition.

China is further narrowing access to a key government recruitment programme for overseas-educated graduates, limiting their pathways into the country’s civil service and party-state system. More than a dozen provincial-level regions, including Beijing and Shanghai, opened applications for the 2027 xuandiaosheng recruitment rounds in September and October. Xuandiaosheng, or the “selected graduates” system, is designed to select and train university graduates to become elite cadres and officials...

Matt Rattley, a lecturer in biochemistry at St Hilda's College, (pictured) has already attracted online controversy thanks to his bizarre appearance, which also involves female clothes and makeup.

There are only three days left until the highly anticipated 2026 midterm elections, and this weekend is shaping up to be dramatic. Follow along with the Daily Mail's live blog for all key updates:

The protest, organised by Defend Our Juries, was expected to see 400 people show support for the group by holding up signs reading 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action'.

Sadiq Khan's vision of Oxford Street as a peaceful, pedestrian utopia has inelegantly stumbled and landed on its face just days into the scheme.

A laughing toddler in yellow wellies jumped in puddles outside one of Europe's biggest shanty camps as he waited to set out for Britain this week.

Chinese archaeologists are set for a hi-tech turn, with the latest five-year blueprint aiming to deploy AI and deep-sea robots to trace Chinese history, decipher the origins of East Asian humans and expand the country’s cultural soft power. Scientists will develop technologies such as remote sensing, ancient DNA analysis, underwater archaeology robots and artificial intelligence (AI) models for virtual restoration of excavated artefacts, according to the 15th five-year work plan for...

In what would be a significant U-turn on previous government policy, the PM said he is 'open' to the possibility of the UK issuing a formal apology for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.

In 1998, a 29-year-old Karl Bushby hugged his mum and nan goodbye in Hull, East Yorkshire, and set off on his 30,000-mile long mission. Now 57, the former paratrooper is just days from home...

Laura Caron, 36, pled guilty to having sex with a teenage student and bearing his child in a New Jersey courtroom on Wednesday.