Public anger over the decision to strip winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners contributed to Labour’s hammering at the ballot box, Cabinet minister Wes Streeting has acknowledged.

Friedrich Merz’s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor has failed in the first round of voting in parliament by six votes. Mr Merz, the conservative leader, was expected to win the vote on Tuesday.

The roommate of a British student nurse has been charged with her murder after she was stabbed to death in Texas. Elizabeth Odunsi, known to her friends and family as Tamilore Odunsi, was found with ...

NHS documents “have to speak plain English”, the Health Secretary said as he stressed that women should not be “excluded or erased” for the NHS to be “trans inclusive”. Wes Streeting said he does not ...

Girls and pupils from disadvantaged secondary schools will be prioritised for new government support to support them to study maths and into AI-based careers. Ministers have announced around £8.2 ...

The oil major saw its shares lift on Tuesday, following reports its biggest rival is weighing whether to launch a takeover bid.

The country has been under a government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus since Sheikh Hasina was ousted last ...

Mr Merz seeks to take the helm of the European Union’ s most populous member after outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government collapsed ...

A chilly start on Tuesday, but soon warming up in the strong May sunshine with any fog patches rapidly clearing 🌤️ Cloudier in some coastal regions of Scotland and cloud building elsewhere through ...

Ford Motor Company says it expects to take a 1.5 billion dollar hit to its operating profit from tariffs this year and is withdrawing its full-year financial guidance due to the uncertainty created by ...

It comes as a new report from the WHO revealed targets designed to help tackle global health inequalities within a generation will not be met.