Milton has rapidly strengthened to become a Category 5 hurricane as it heads towards population centres in the US state of ...

Politicians should “cut all the flim-flam” and drop rhetoric which is “damaging public confidence” in the NHS, Victoria Atkins has warned. In a Commons debate about Lord Darzi’s NHS investigation, the ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested that migrants who are in the US and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes”. There are, he added, “a lot of bad genes in ...

Mary Lou McDonald has announced a “complete overhaul” of Sinn Fein’s governance procedures as she apologised for the party’s handling of a sex crime investigation into one of its former press officers ...

The shadow work and pensions secretary, who was knocked out of the leadership contest in the second round, has endorsed James Cleverly.

A small crowd gathered outside the Auberge de Castille, the prime minister’s office in the capital, in anticipation of the royal arrival.

The Israeli military says it will soon launch operations on Lebanon’s southern coast, telling residents to stay off the beaches and fishermen off the sea for a 60-kilometre (36 miles) stretch along ...

Four pupils are being treated in hospital after a school bus overturned in Northern Ireland. The mother of one of the children on the double-decker told how pupils were left screaming in fear after ...

Houston died on Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, her family said.

The North African country’s Independent High Authority for Elections said on Monday evening that Mr Saied had won 90.7 of the vote.