The Government has closed the local government watchdog barely a year after it was founded, citing cost concerns and a “vague” remit. In a letter published on Monday, local government minister Jim ...

Lawyers for the company and China-based ByteDance urged the justices to step in before the law’s January 19 deadline.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s official 2024 Christmas card features a number of images (Archewell/PA) It appears the couple, who stepped down as working royals and moved to California in 2020, may ...

The driver of a grey Porsche Cayenne fled the scene after it hit the Toyota Auris carrying four adults and the boy, West Midlands Police said.

A youth opened fire at a private Christian school on Monday in the US state of Wisconsin, killing two people in the final week before the Christmas break. The gunman also died, police said.

Mr Scholz leads a minority government after his unpopular and notoriously rancorous three-party coalition collapsed on November 6.

Mr Yang was first excluded from Britain by then-home secretary Suella Braverman in 2023, when the Home Office said he was believed to have carried out “covert and deceptive activity” for the Chinese ...

An alleged Chinese spy who was banned from the UK and linked to the Duke of York has been named as Yang Tengbo, following a High Court ruling. The 50-year-old is said to have become a “close” ...

Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar was highly critical of the Irish Government after ordering the closure of the embassy in Dublin.

A planned strike over Christmas and New Year by fuel tanker drivers at Edinburgh Airport has been called off, their employer has said. Unite the union announced last week that tanker drivers from ...

Prosecutors and the defence have agreed to recommend a sentence of between four and six years in prison, according to the plea agreement.