The Defence Secretary was asked about the upsides of ‘giving away’ the Indian Ocean archipelago as he spoke at a conference in London.

Strike action by drivers at Stagecoach West Scotland will be suspended from 3pm on Wednesday while a new pay offer is put to an all-members ballot.

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill was supported, with MPs voting 379 to 137, majority 242.

The possibility that music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs might give evidence at his federal sex trafficking trial in the US all but vanished on Tuesday after his lawyer predicted a defence presentation ...

Concerns have again been raised at Westminster over the loss of green space, the design of the scheme and security implications ...

Kulsuma Akter was killed by her husband Habibur Masum after he confronted her in the street while she was pushing their son in a pram ...

Donald Trump said the US was not going to assassinate Iran’s supreme leader “at least not for now” as Sir Keir Starmer played down the prospect of an imminent US intervention in the Middle East crisis ...

Tributes have been paid to a university student who was among two people killed while skydiving. Chiropractic student Adam Harrison, 30, died in the incident near Dunkeswell Aerodrome in Devon last ...

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A long-awaited Stormont plan to target poverty has been criticised as “underwhelming”. Communities Minister Gordon Lyons launched an extended 14-week public consultation on the Executive’s ...

Sir Keir Starmer asked ‘why on earth’ Mrs Badenoch did not bring forward a duty for authorities to report child sexual exploitation in power.

Mr Trump left the G7 summit in Canada a day early to deal with the conflict between Israel and Iran, telling reporters on Air Force One during the flight back to Washington: “I’m not looking at a ...