The FINANCIAL — There were 246,897 marriages in England and Wales in 2022, a return to pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic levels, and 12.3% more marriages than took place in 2019. There was a record ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s marriage talks have caught attention once again. This year, the Duke of Sussex’s potential ...

The UK government is under pressure to outlaw marriages between cousins following moves in several Scandinavian countries to ban such unions. The Tory MP Richard Holden has tabled a question for the ...

FILE PHOTO: A bride holds her purse with hands that are decorated with henna patterns, during a mass marriage ceremony held in Karachi January 2, 2015. A total of 50 couples from the Hindu community ...

No matter how many soothing ‘yoga breaths’ I take, my heart is jumping. Yet, for everyone else in the airport, it’s business as usual. A middle aged man comes out of the arrivals gate, near to where I ...

A major health authority has pulled its recent report citing the “benefits” of first-cousin marriage after it sparked widespread outrage. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) came under fire after ...

A straight couple who were previously denied the right to enter into a civil partnership have won a claim at the Supreme Court that they had suffered discrimination. Civil partnerships are currently ...

The storm over first-cousin marriage deepened last night after experts linked it to terrorist financing, money laundering and people trafficking. Tories called for the marriages to be banned after The ...

One of Britain's foremost experts on child health has defended the right for first cousins to marry and dismissed concerns about inbreeding. Professor Dominic Wilkinson, an NHS neonatologist and ...