Downing Street has rejected characterisations of its plans to reform the Civil Service as “taking a chainsaw to the system”.

Bosnian prosecutors have ordered the detention of three top Bosnian Serb officials over a series of separatist actions in ...

Russian ballistic missiles have killed at least five civilians in Ukraine, officials said. The assault comes a day after the ...

A 13-year-old girl has appeared in court charged with murder and arson after the body of a woman was found in a house in Northamptonshire. The teenager, who appeared in the dock clutching a teddy bear ...

Four men have been convicted of attempting to smuggle £100 million of cocaine on a fishing boat off the coast of Cornwall. Michael Kelly, 45, from Portway, Manchester, and Jake Marchant, 27, of no ...

The son of prominent Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai has called for his father’s release in a high-profile national security ...

Sir Keir Starmer has faced a backlash over rumoured welfare cuts, with one Labour MP pleading with the Prime Minister to make the “moral” choice. Richard Burgon told the Commons disabled people are ...

IN its 100 glorious years, the Liverpool Empire has seen it all - from Laurel and Hardy to Frank Sinatra and The Beatles. It is also the venue where many Merseysiders enjoyed their first ballet, opera ...

Aristocrat Constance Marten posed as a freelance journalist called Caroline as she concealed her tragic newborn baby, a court has heard. Marten, 37, and her partner Mark Gordon, 50, are on trial at ...

The Queen joined spectators at the Cheltenham Festival for a day of racing at the premier meet in the country for jump jockeys. Snow had greeted early risers at the famous racecourse but Camilla ...

Somali security forces have ended a 24-hour siege at a hotel in the central city of Beledwyne, leaving an unknown number of people dead, including all the al-Shabab militants who launched the attack, ...

A partial lunar eclipse will take place in the UK just before dawn on Friday. The moon will darken as it moves into Earth’s shadow and will eventually turn red, earning its “blood moon” nickname. In a ...