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The leading British actor and director Rebecca Hall regrets making a public apology for having worked with Woody Allen, she has revealed. Actors, she now believes, should not feel pressured [...]

A man in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of a double murder after two men were fatally stabbed in Manchester. Police said they were called to Great Southern [...]

Members of the Women's Equality party (WEP) have voted to dissolve the organisation after nearly a decade of activism, with its leaders blaming challenging finances and a more polarised political [...]

Ed Davey has said the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats should reflect on her position because of her failure to take action over an abuse case when she was [...]

Islamophobia has become "brutally divisive" in the UK and failure to challenge its root causes will lead to more racist riots, the head of the UK's leading race equality thinktank [...]

The president of the National Farmers' Union (NFU) has said that farmers in England and Wales feel "betrayed" by changes to inheritance tax rules, while saying his organisation does not [...]

It could be time to get out the woolly jumpers, the UK Met Office has warned, as an Arctic blast brings the threat of plummeting temperatures, sleet, snow and ice. [...]

In the end Viktor Orbán didn't, as he'd promised, celebrate Donald Trump's win with "several bottles of champagne". He was in Kyrgyzstan, he apologised, "where they have different traditions" -- [...]

The Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, has told Liberal National party members the party "does not exist for culture wars" in an address seeking to stare down potential division about his [...]

Police have asked the public to stop sharing "distressing" images and videos after a man died in Edinburgh on Saturday evening. The 74-year-old man was struck by a single-decker bus [...]

The questions began when Joh became pregnant with her first child. They only got more frequent with her second. "People start asking, 'When are you moving? When are you guys [...]

Police are investigating a new allegation of sexual assault against the former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond. Police Scotland confirmed it was looking into a "non-recent" allegation made by [...]

This weekend Kemi Badenoch became the first black person to lead a UK party and the fourth woman to lead the Conservatives. But behind those labels -- which she hates [...]

It is a distinct language that has survived against the odds for centuries in a tiny pocket of central Sweden, where just 2,500 people speak it today. And yet, despite [...]

An ultranationalist Israeli television channel backed by the government is fast emerging as one of the country's most-watched news sources, despite allegations from liberal groups that it is inciting war [...]

Anthony Albanese has all but declared victory over the inflation crisis in an upbeat campaign rally speech promising more free Tafe places and cost of living support. On Sunday the [...]

Sadiq Khan has warned of a potential increase in hate crime in Britain triggered by the rise in Middle East violence, as a leading British Jewish group warned of the [...]

Teachers in England have voted overwhelmingly to accept a 5.5% pay rise, putting an end to months of negotiations and industrial action. Of those members who responded to the National [...]

If modern politics has left you feeling that up is down and left is right, then Kemi Badenoch seems to have some sympathy for you. In the middle of her [...]

It had been expected for months -- the party had been leading the polls since 2022. Nor was it exactly a crushing victory: far from an absolute majority, and just [...]

Queenslanders will go to the polls on 26 October. Here's five things you should know. Is Labor's hold on Queensland slipping? It's often said that Queensland is Australia's most conservative [...]

Australia's housing crisis may be starting to ease with dwelling price rises tapering off and rents increasing at their slowest pace in four years, data groups say. Property values increased [...]

Climbing Mount Everest has always been a feat, but it seems the task might be getting harder: researchers say Everest is having something of a growth spurt. The Himalayas formed [...]

Four police officers and a civilian employee are to face disciplinary action for alleged errors that helped leave the serial rapist David Carrick free to attack a string of women. [...]

Liz Truss has said the Conservatives would have done better in July's general election if she had stayed on as prime minister, during an often freewheeling one-off appearance at the [...]

More than 200 people were killed in Nepal over the weekend in what experts described as some of the worst flash flooding to have hit the capital, Kathmandu, and the [...]

What is the controversy about maternity pay? The Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch was asked on Sunday if she thought maternity pay was at the right level. Her reply was [...]

In the midst of their listless election campaign last summer, the Conservatives held a glitzy fundraising dinner at the Hurlingham Club in west London. Rishi Sunak was in York for [...]

Rachel Reeves is rethinking parts of Labour's crackdown on non-dom tax status over concerns that the plans will not raise any money. The chancellor is reassessing the government's manifesto promise [...]

Internal government documents show that Home Office ministers and staff tried to influence police and prosecutors to crack down on activists targeting the UK factories of an Israeli arms manufacturer, [...]

As tributes are paid to the first woman thought to have died from a liquid Brazilian butt lift (BBL) carried out in the UK, we ask experts what the procedure [...]

It was a crime that shocked and captivated a nation. On the night of 20 August 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez, then 21 and 18, stormed into their Beverly Hills [...]

Influential Liberal figure Michael Kroger claimed Moira Deeming had said "more crazy stuff over the years" as he urged the Victorian opposition leader, John Pesutto, to build a stronger case [...]

Years of wet weather and vegetation growth have made it harder for the New South Wales fire authorities to prepare for this year's bushfire season that officially begins on Tuesday, [...]

At least 18,000 deaths in England were associated with flu over the past two winters, figures have revealed, as health experts urge those eligible to take up a free vaccination [...]

Turn up the air con -- it's getting hot in Venice. As the festival sweltered under a prolonged heatwave, the temperature was raised still further when George Clooney and Brad [...]

Overnight, the rumours spread: the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had found bodies in Gaza. Everyone in Israel knew the corpses were likely to be hostages seized on 7 October. The [...]

The lack of investment in arts schemes aimed at working-class children will create a cultural landscape that is whiter and posher, according to one of the UK's leading black British [...]

The prison system is "broken", with inmates returning to the community "bored and angry" and "set up to fail", according to Scotland's outgoing chief inspector. Wendy Sinclair-Gieben highlighted a succession [...]

A senior Labour backbencher is seeking to have liabilities from schools and hospitals built under private finance initiative (PFI) deals scrutinised under a new budget responsibility bill. Stella Creasy, who [...]

Voters in two eastern German states are about to go to the polls in elections that could see the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party score its first wins at [...]