President-elect Donald Trump has named Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, to be US attorney general just ...

Gunmen have opened fire on passenger vehicles carrying Shiite Muslim civilians in north-west Pakistan on Thursday, killing at ...

Federal police in Brazil say they have indicted former president Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people on charges of attempting ...

Temperatures are expected to plunge well below freezing in parts of the UK overnight, with Friday dawning frosty and icy before Storm Bert strikes on the weekend. The storm is set to reach the UK on ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help British businesses offset the soaring costs of recent Budget measures by boosting productivity, Google’s UK boss has said.

A quarter of adults in the UK are set to buy pre-loved gifts for children this Christmas, according to Oxfam. A study of 2,000 adults who celebrate the festive season found a quarter (24%) will likely ...

The debate and expected vote on November 29 will be the first on the controversial issue in the Commons in almost a decade.

The Government should review GCSE English as teachers say it is uninspiring and “too mechanistic”, the leader of a major exam board has said. Colin Hughes, chief executive of AQA, said pupils should ...

Hooligans who wreak havoc in towns and neighbourhoods could face up to two years in jail for breaching so-called respect orders launched in a bid to crack down on anti-social behaviour.

The Government must do more to ensure public officials are transparent about conflicts of interest or risk “undermining” the view they are objective, ministers have been warned. Public spending ...

A baby orangutan born in a Spanish conservation centre has travelled first class across the English Channel to get special care at a Dorset monkey sanctuary. Bornean orangutan Kiwi, who is nearly one ...

GfK’s long-running consumer confidence index rose by three points this month, although it remains firmly in negative territory at minus 18.