Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than ...

NHS England has published its latest monthly performance data for hospitals, along with this week’s snapshot of winter virus ...

Taiwan demonstrated its sea defences against a potential Chinese attack on Thursday as tensions rise with Beijing, part of a ...

The US president was scheduled to leave for Italy after giving the eulogy for former president Jimmy Carter at his funeral in ...

Sir Keir Starmer will not soften his language about Liz Truss’s premiership despite her lawyers sending him a letter insisting his assertion that she crashed the economy is defamatory, Downing Street ...

Councils wanting to postpone local elections will have to meet a “very clear criteria”, Commons Leader Lucy Powell said, amid concerns changes to local government could cause “democratic outrage”.

The number of pupils in England off school without permission increased ahead of the Christmas holidays, figures suggest. Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows that the unauthorised ...

The yield on gilts is a proxy for the effective interest rate on public borrowing – meaning that rising yields equal higher borrowing costs.

Mr Lynch said he was incredibly proud to have served the RMT both as a rank-and-file member and an elected officer.

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry.

A celebrity osteopath who has pleaded guilty to three counts of voyeurism is under further police investigation after the discovery of more recording devices, a court has heard.

Plans for sanctions on the finances of people-smuggling networks will ‘prevent, combat, deter and disrupt irregular migration’, Mr Lammy said.