If convicted of the most serious charge, wire fraud, he faces up to 20 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

During her career, actor Dame Maggie Smith shone in roles as varied as a maverick schoolteacher, a witch in the Harry Potter film series, and Downton Abbey’s Dowager Countess of Grantham, a part which ...

More than 90,000 council and school workers in Scotland will be balloted for strike action in a pay dispute, a union has said. Unison has rejected the latest pay offer from local government umbrella ...

A coalition of nature groups said they identified gaps in commitment and funding that need to be filled to address England’s water crisis.

Heat pumps are highly efficient and can release several times more energy in the form of heat than they consume in the form of electricity.

Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville has hailed Dame Maggie Smith as a “true legend of her generation”. Bonneville, who played Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, the son of Dame Maggie’s character ...

A murder-accused father deliberately drove into a motorcyclist who was in a high-speed chase with his son, causing brain damage and a severed spinal cord, a court has heard.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told world leaders at the UN that his nation will “continue degrading Hezbollah ...

Clifford Cowen, of Kensington Park Gardens, Notting Hill, west London, is accused of murdering of Rita Fleming.

Hugh Bonneville and Sir Keir Starmer are among those to have paid tribute to Dame Maggie Smith after it was announced she had died aged 89.

Dame Maggie Smith won a best actress Oscar in 1970 but found an even wider profile in the last years of her career.

Dame Maggie won over a whole new generation of fans when she played Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter films. In 2010 she was central to the success of ITV series Downton Abbey, in her ...