A confused swan was rescued after bringing motorway traffic to a standstill. National Highways said the bird wandered around ...

The flooding and landslides killed at least 1,303 people, with 712 people confirmed dead in Indonesia, 410 in Sri Lanka and ...

Volodymyr Zelensky was greeted by Ireland’s president in Dublin as the Irish Government announced 100 million euro in non-lethal aid for Ukraine. The additional funding brings to 200 million euro the ...

The backlog of cases waiting to be completed in crown courts in England and Wales is at a record high, with sexual offences accounting for a growing proportion of cases with the longest delays. Here ...

Labour’s flagship workers’ rights package was stripped of the day-one right to claims against unfair dismissal amid a stand-off between ...

The Prada Group has announced that it has purchased Milan fashion rival Versace in a 1.25 billion euro (£1.06bn) deal. The move is expected to relaunch Versace’s fortunes after average post-pandemic ...

US special envoy Steve Witkoff is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, taking to the Kremlin an embryonic peace plan that Washington hopes can end the nearly four-year war in ...

The OECD said growth will slow to 1.2 next year, before edging up to 1.3 in 2027, with ‘substantial’ downside risks from fiscal tightening.

Justice Secretary David Lammy stressed that juries remain “fundamental” as he is expected to set out plans to curb their use in a bid to tackle the backlog in the courts. Mr Lammy, who is also Deputy ...

Social media is “chipping away at attention spans” and promoting disrespectful behaviour, Ofsted’s chief inspector warned as he said schools should be a “sanctuary” for children away from their mobile ...

Nine million pensioners are being urged to check their bank accounts for the payment reference ‘DWP WFP’, alongside their National ...

Three-year-old Nathaniel Clayton started having problems with his vision when he was just six months old. After numerous ...