Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland in 1960. A home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet from one of his mother’s coats and a Ping-Pong ball cut in half, according to ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he held telephone talks with US President Donald Trump and agreed to hold “productive” discussions at an upcoming tariff talks between the two sides.

Retail sales volumes were up 1.2% in April 2025, following a rise of 0.1% in March 2025 (revised down from 0.4%). April’s retail sales growth surpassed expectations, with analysts having predicted a 0 ...

Household energy bills will fall by 7% from July, Ofgem has confirmed. The typical bill will drop by £129 to £1,720 per year when the regulator’s new price cap – which sets the limit on how much firms ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “emboldening Hamas”, after the British Prime Minister joined the leaders of France and Canada in calling for a halt to Israel’s military offensive ...

HALF-TERM holidaymakers will be among the first to use the brand-new security hall in Manchester Airport’s new Terminal 2.

The music agency Sound Talent Group said that three of its employees, including co-founder Dave Shapiro, died on the private ...

Jimmy Wayne Carwyle was found incompetent by a county-appointed psychiatrist, but has demanded a second opinion.

Rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, gave evidence in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s sex trafficking trial.

The 38-year-old leader of the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians had conceded defeat on Sunday after losing in ...

AN inquest has been opened after a woman died while in custody. Lorna Carter, who was an inmate at HMP Styal in Wilmslow, died on January 27 of this year aged 58. On Wednesday, Cheshire Coroner’s ...

Some 50,000 people have been isolated by flooding along the coast of New South Wales state, north of Sydney, after days of heavy rain.