It's been a chilly start to the year with Arctic winds bringing low temperatures to the UK. Snow has fallen in many parts of the country with the Met Office issuing an amber weather warning for snow ...

It's been a very wintery start to the year for many, with snow falling all over the UK. Schools in some parts of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have had to shut because of how much snow there's ...

Where has the time gone? It feels like only yesterday we were celebrating the beginning of 2025, and now it's 2026. As we head into the New Year, what are you looking forward to and will you be making ...

Zootropolis 2, the long awaited sequel to Zootropolis, is now Disney's biggest ever animated film. It hit the big screen November 2025, and has made more than $1 billion worldwide already. And it ...

What do jellyfish and people have in common? Well a new study from scientists at Bar-Ilan University suggests despite lacking a brain, jellyfish and sea anemones sleep similarly to humans. Researchers ...

Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, has erupted again on the island of Sicily. Huge lava fountains and plumes of ash were seen being sent high into the night sky over the weekend. Mount Etna's ...

Meet Maximus Textoris Pulcher, the political puss with a big name and an even bigger social media following. The grey Scottish Fold cat was adopted by Bart De Wever, the Prime Minister of Belgium, ...

Five Siberian tiger cubs have one very proud mum - she's the first ever tiger known to have given birth to quintuplets in the wild in China. The family have been spotted in Northeast China Tiger and ...

The US has captured the President of Venezuela, after President Donald Trump ordered military strikes on the country. President Nicolás Maduro is now being held in the US, and President Trump says the ...

Get ready to shout "take it off" at your TV screens again, because the new series of The Masked Singer is nearly here. It starts on ITV on Saturday 3 January, and this year it's set to have more ...

Space fans are in for a real treat as the first full Moon of the year will be visible in the night sky this weekend. Not only that, but it's also set to be the fourth and final supermoon in a row.

It's 2026 so how about learning a new sport? Well here at BBC Newsround we were inspired by superstar pole-vaulter Mondo Duplantis. Last year he broke the pole vaulting world record, launching himself ...