Edinburgh-born Hoy took up cycling at the age of 14 and won his first Olympic medal, a team sprint silver, at Sydney in 2000.

A housing minister has lost her building safety brief after Grenfell survivors complained about her attendance at a ...

Max Verstappen ended his lengthy victory drought to win the United States Grand Prix Sprint for Red Bull as title rival Lando ...

The Metropolitan Police say they are conducting a detailed and thorough review after facing criticism over how they dealt ...

A funeral home in Poland has apologised after a corpse fell out of a hearse and into traffic. Hades Funeral Service, the ...

Two people have been arrested over the child neglect death of a baby. The four-month-old boy died in Clynderwen, ...

Olympic legend Sir Chris Hoy says he has terminal cancer and "two to four years" to live. Sir Chris, 48, revealed earlier ...

The British government is being careful not to call Foreign Secretary David Lammy's trip to China a reset in the relationship ...

The King will attend a Sydney church service to begin the monarch's first tour of Australia since his accession to the throne ...

A man has been arrested in Tokyo after firebombs were thrown at the headquarters of Japan's ruling party and a car crashed ...

The father of a baby girl killed in the English Channel says he fought desperately to hold on to her, but she slipped from ...

A drug dealer extradited from Spain has pleaded guilty to smuggling cocaine and heroin after police seized property worth ...