The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new ...

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation was in Paris for a round of bilateral and multilateral meetings with representatives of countries from the “coalition of the willing,” including France, Germany and ...

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

From Haskins to Blue Diamond, here are the Easter bank holiday opening times for six garden centre chains in the UK.

Transgender people are “worried that people are coming after their right to exist” after the Supreme Court’s ruling, an MSP has said. The court handed down its decision on Wednesday in a long-running ...

A minister has said she hopes the Supreme Court’s ruling on the legal definition of the term woman will draw a line under arguments over gender recognition, but accepted more “homework” needed to be ...

People taking part in this year's Uppies and Downies are being urged to be safe and look after each other by Cumbria Police.

New research shows that four people in 10 make major retirement mistake when it comes to knowing their DWP State Pension age ...

Martin Lewis has highlighted a key issue for millions of workers who have just had a pay rise due to the increase in the national minimum wage.

Farmers, officials and industry leaders in Ivory Coast said fairer prices for cocoa are more urgent than ever before.

With Japan charging an average tax rate of 1.9% on other countries’ goods and having a long-standing alliance with the US, ...